June 7 - June 28:
One trip to the zoo; bid farewell to 2 great friends who are done with school (1 more yet to go); Lucas discovered what's funniest when asked where his nose is and learned a handful more of animal sounds; went slip-n-slidin (thanks, thanks, thanks Lacey, Dax had so much fun); went to the Chicago Temple; ate at our favorite Mexican restaurant, La Ezmerelda's ; played at the park every day; got lots of sunshine!

So lately we have gotten over 7 inches of rain (6 of them were in 2 days), we had another tornado watch today, the kids love to be outside, 3 of our closest friends are moving, Dax prefers his big boy bike to his trike (yeah), Lucas loves to hop on a stool and loves a good banana, Greg is in the clinic and really enjoying it and we have mold everywhere . . .









For more water pictures after the tornado watch and 6 inches of rain we received visit my friend Jenny's website http://gilbrethfamily.blogspot.com/.

Greg's cousin's house was completely demolished by a tornado a few weeks ago in Parkersburg, IA. At the bottom of this blog is a picture of the before and after.

http://natellijohnston.blogspot.com/

We likely said some of the same prayers they had a few weeks ago. We had a severe weather advisory with tornado's. We spent about 45 minutes in our basement this afternoon wherein we received a little over 4 inches of rain but thankfully no golf ball size hail and NO tornado's. It is still raining and it's suppose to continue through next week. On the news there were cars floating in the water down the middle of the streets. We're determined to get our insurance papers and 72 hour kits to be a little more accessible.

We've been able to get outdoors a bit more which has been so fabulous for us all. Some days though it seems to come with a cost: mud, puddles, wet sand, dry sand, rain, dirt, skinned knees, bruised foreheads, a big lip, one bath, two baths, 2-3 different pairs of clothes, more rain, lots of humidity, layers of sunscreen, and a few tears along the way.

As well, for Mother's and Father's Day Greg and I decided to buy a guitar together. Up to that point neither of us knew how to play and up to this point Greg spends a lot more time on it than I do, but soon enough. And because we bought one we couldn't keep Dax from strummin a few cords so he got the Target version; he loves it.