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Wednesday, June 2, 2021

2021 :: 21/52

 tuesday was my second to last work day at jodi's for this school year; Al worked.

wednesday morning, the kids and i went to irvine park with jodi adn her kids and daycare kids. we saw the animals, played at the park and had a picnic lunch. it was a gorgeous, sunny, yet chilly morning! at naptime i laid out for a bit and read and weeded. after school we spent the whole time outside in the backyard until supper. i trimmed up all the super long grass around our chainlink fence and garden. the kids played with rockets, water and drove their jeep & 4 wheeler. after supper, trevor and i went to cam's baseball game. there were lots of our people there so trevor played soccer with the other kids teh whole time. he was beat! after bedtime, i went to the bar by kassie and jake's house with jodi and her family (she had some other family in town for her grandma's funeral.) it was fun but we stayed up until 1am. 

thursday it rained ALL day and was cold! after school drop off, tova, al and i went garage saling but there weren't many open. during naptime, Al and i worked downstairs; him selling his ebay stuff and me putting away things that were neglected since before the garage sale. after school pick up, i went and got my first tattoo! jodi was supposed to go with me, but she had her grandma's funeral in Platteville. 

friday Al was back to work for the weekend. it was cold out! after school dropoff, tova and i ran some errands and hit some garage sales. 

saturday morning mom came down and it was gorgeous outside all day! we went garage saling in the morning then went to the farmers market downtown where we got olive dip, pita chips and ice cream cones. we got to listen to a band that had an accordion in it while we ate our ice cream cones. during nap, mom and i worked on the firepit project and made our lists for the lake, all outside. after nap, the kids joined us working on the firepit and Trevor got to saw the old logs apart all by himself. he was pretty excited about that! then it was supper and bath time. 

sunday it rained all day so we stayed in all day. mom went home at nap time. 

monday was memorial day and Al was off work. it was nice out! we ran to a couple garage sales in the morning then found a cool, new to us playground for the kids. once home grandpa peter came over and the kids had lunch. during naptime, i worked outside on the fire pit, mowing the lawn and cleaning the porch out. we went over to matt & jodi's house for supper and had a fish fry of the fish we'd caught the weekend before. 


cam, tova, chloe, carsyn, trevor, russell, easton, vada












pirate friendship bracelets for trevor, elliott and liam
mermaid necklace for tova






good helpers
new to us park




Friday, May 28, 2021

2021 :: 20/52

 Tuesday Al had a gout follow up appointment in teh morning, trev had school, tova and i went to jodi's house and had a birthday party for 2 of our friends there. after school the kids ran through the sprinkler since it was hot out. 

it rained wednesday and thursday but was still warm so the kids got to play outside and jump in puddles. Thursday was garage saling day. 

friday Al was off; we garage saled for a bit, then cleaned and packed for the weekend. mom came down during naptime and we walked to get trev from school. after school, matt, jodi, al and i packed up with matt's boat and headed to an adults only cabin weekend in hayward. mom stayed at our house with the kids. we had so much fun! we spent most of the time on the boat and it went by so fast. we fished a little bit friday night after we arrived and put the boat in, then went to a restaurant on the lake (4 seasons) that was just down the road and they had a fantastic fish fry! saturday it was cloudy all morning. the boys got up early and went fishing then came and got us about 8. we fished until 11ish when we came in, had lunch, and ran to walmart for a couple of things. then back out fishing and the sky started to clear up. we got some good sun about 4pm. then we went back to 4 seasons for supper and went back out fishing again. we caught our limit of pan fish and some big bass. we got back to the dock after dark and we got really scared by a beaver (we think, we couldn't see it) slapping it's tail right next to us. we played games and had some drinks and snacks. 

sunday morning it was cold! 43 degrees, felt like 36. matt and i drove the boat way over to the boat launch after packing up and we froze! the lake was misting because the water was so much warmer than the air. then we bummed around hayward for a bit, grabbed gas and lunch and headed home. it was a great kid-free weekend but went by way too fast!

monday was back to work for al and i and school for trevor. after school, we did some water play out back and made it inside 2 minutes before it down poured. then after supper we went out and jumped in the puddles before bath time. 

dinner on friday night










saturday late afternoon and evening were gorgeous





it was really cold taking the boat to the landing

these 2; fishing right next to each other watching their bait
we got bass at the same time

monday at jodi's house
carsyn, easton, tova, kinsley