Summer? Fall, is it possible?

This summer has gone by so quickly. Logan began baseball in May before school ended and played through the end of June. During a two week period, Coulson's baseball schedule overlapped with Logan's forcing Scott and I to splits kids along with game. Taking turns does work out. ha ha!

The summer vacation was so welcomed! Although I wasn't completely sure it was the right decision considering the unknown fate of my employment but we made the decision to go anyway and I'm so glad we did. The trip consisted of three additional baseball stadiums to check off our list. We began the trip on Sunday, June 27 to Kansas City, MO where we went to Kaufman Stadium for a game on June 28. That was an interesting time because Scott's wallet was stolen...so we didn't get to enjoy the stories of KC BBQ, Scott was very upset. Luckily I had a majority of the cash for the trip. Whew!

Anyway, we left Kansas City bright and early Tuesday morning to head to Minneapolis, MN, another 7.5 hrs in the car... We were able to see the Twins play that night and see high school friend, Jim Thome hit homerun #572. That was exciting! The boys were all decked out in Thome gear, very cute. The new Target field was nice, although Logan didn't like our seats. We were in center field, two rows under the Jumbotron. It was a little high.

Wednesday morning we are heading to South Dakota to see the Badlands and Mt. Rushmore. This was suppose to be the longest stretch of drive for the trip at 10.5 hours. The Bain's made it stretch a lot longer with that due to stops at The Corn Palace, Wall Drug, the Badlands and finally reaching The President's Inn in Keystone, SD. It was a ton of fun! Coulson tried so hard for me to buy him snake skin cowboy boots at Wall Drug but instead he settled on a Sling Shot. Mt. Rushmore was beautiful! We were had the privilege of meeting the last surviving artist/worker for Mt. Rushmore. Kind of cool!

During our two days in Keystone, SD we went to Crazy Horse, Custer State Park which included a Lantern Cave tour at Jewel Cave. I think this was the boys biggest highlights. South Dakota is absolutely beautiful! I could give everything up and move out there to have land, horses and quiet. That is said too before I truly know what the winters are like. LOL Maybe I'll settle for something during the summer.

Once we left SD, we head to Denver. This stretch was to take roughly 6 hours. We made it Denver and Coors Field. Scott was taking pictures along the way and the boys are having a good time. After the great fireworks display, heading back to the hotel, poor Coulson had a horrible bloody nose. He was so upset, I just think it was the fact we were in Mile High City. He's a little trooper! The next morning, we decided to check out early, go to Rocky Mountain National Park and just hit the road. While at 14,000 feet in the Rockies, the boys and I got out in our shorts, flip flops and played in the snow. They thought that was so cool! By the time we finished the drive up through the park and reached the bottom, we should have just stayed in Denver that night because we were so tired but we continued to drive as long as we could into Nebraska's nasty storm! This storm was horrible! Tornado's had developed throughout the area but we were fortunate to get into a Hampton Inn.

The next day was the last leg of the trip and honestly, I thought we were never going to make it home, it took FOREVER!!!! The storm from the night before wasn't moving horribly fast. We driving through it for most of Iowa and finally stopped after we crossed the Mississippi into Illinois. This drive finally picked up again and we were able to pull into our neighborhood as the fireworks started shooting into the sky. It was a great way to end the trip! This trip we drove 3,833 miles. WOW!

Hopefully, I'll post some pictures soon from the trip. After the trip, Coulson was able to finish his baseball for the summer, giving us a three day break.

Football started this past Monday, July 26. This is now every night, Monday thru Friday for three weeks before it starts tapering down and school will start. Honestly, I don't know where the time has gone. The boys did take tennis lessons along with bowling and swimm lessons during all of this as well. They have bee very active, very busy.

Until I can post some pictures, have a great day!

Spring Please...

This morning when we woke up, it was a relief not to see the 6-10" of snow that was predicted. Instead we received about 2-3" of wet, heavy, slushy snow. It wasn't the kind of snow you could use the snowblower with because it would clog up the augger so it was time for the old fashion way with a shovel. It was definitely packing snow, it would be a great day to make a snowman or have a snowball fight.

Logan has been enduring a fever since Friday night so I won't allow him to go out, which means Coulson can't either. If one can't do it, then neither can.

Spring, where are you? I realize it is hopeful thinking but I truly hope we'll begin to see tulips, daffodils, crocus and all the other beautiful spring time flowers. The sunlight is lasting longer which is great. It's one step closer to the glorious beautiful days of spring.

I'm hoping to post some recent pictures of the boys.

Have a great day!