Saturday, July 3, 2010

When Ryan's gone...

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1. We have a tornado warning and I have to take everyone in the basement after bedtimes...rather scary...

2. and then because of the storm I hear a giant crash only to find a huge branch in our backyard has fallen on our power lines...it bent the gutter on the house, that's how close it hit...it takes 3 days for the power co. to take it off...

3. and since it rains so hard we get water in our basement...

4. Caleb gets a double ear infection

5. It's another holiday I get to spend by myself

It's been a long week with Ryan on a SERVE project. Thankfully he gets back tonight (although he'll probably sleep the rest of the weekend). We managed to stay busy with fun activities with friends. We went to the pool, the zoo, the park, had friends over, and enjoyed Grandma visiting for a few days. Meanwhile I was busy cleaning up my backyard and was greatly blessed to have awesome friends to help me clean it up. Ryan is lucky to come home to a clean backyard...he never got to experience the mess! I was ready to put a huge welcome home sign on the entire mess!


Zoo Visit

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We decided to take a trip to the Sioux Falls Zoo before Ryan headed off to SERVE for the week. We purchased a membership since the kids loved it and we can visit as often as we want! We will definitely be heading back there soon!

The kids loved the train ride and I was amazed how brave they were feeding the goats. Even the boys jumped right in and loved it!