2023 Blue Jeans Week 29

Pretty awesome week.  We had Mr JC's white coat ceremony for beginning of medical school and his family here which was awesome!  Take a look at our week..

A pretty awesome creation that Mr J made.  Makes my heart happy!

Game this week was Azul.  A favorite!

This awesome kid is getting ready for college in a month or so.  He will be living in an apartment and cooking his own meals, so he got an instant pot and tried it out.  So fun!

My dad loves to bring us donuts.  We cleaned up some tree limbs at his house from the storm, while he was gone, so he brought us donuts to thank us.  If we have donuts at our house, you know Grandpa brought them over.

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Went up to the city on Friday.  Ben and I attended the temple before we headed to Mr JC's white coat ceremony. 

Mr JC getting his white coat as he begins medical school.  Pretty awesome!

Celebration dinner after the white coat ceremony with Mr JC's family and us.  So fun!

Mr JC's family come down to our house for the weekend.  It was so fun to have them!

Played some pretty intensive pickleball!  Had a lot of fun with the C's!

Thanks for visiting!  Hope you had a good week!  

2023 Blue Jeans Week 28

Behind again....I am trying to figure out my schedule with this new job.  It is all good, but I am behind on lots of things, but it will be ok!  Take a look at our week...

Had a lunch date with these amazing friends!  Grateful for a schedule that I can still do this!  Love my friends!

Our house is done!  This is the before....

This is our after--new siding, paint and looks so good!

We had a crazy storm this week.  85 mph winds and 1.4 inches of rain in 20 minutes. It was crazy!  Our poor trees after!

Our cars next to this tree were thankfully not hurt.  The branches from this tree didn't fall on our cars which is a blessing!  Lots of others were not so lucky. 

Went to the city this weekend and met these cute kids for lunch.  So fun!

Thanks for visiting and catching up with us!  Hope all is well with you and yours! Have a great week!

2023 Blue Jeans Week 27

Hope you had a wonderful 4th of July week!  Ours was great!  We had lots of family here which was fun!  Take a look...

Made my July cake.  It is a biscoff cake, and it was yummy!

Mr JC and Mrs OC came down for the 4th.  We played some pickleball Monday night to get the holiday in the middle of the week started. 

4th of July breakfast at church.  Mr JC and Mrs OC and Mr J all helped cook the yummy breakfast.  It was a beautiful morning!  So grateful for our country!

4th of July pickleball!  My brother and his family were in town which was awesome because we don't get to see them much, so we loved it.  We played some pickleball with them on the 4th before our BBQ and fireworks which I did not get pictures of...

Fun to have the C's here!  So fun to hear Mr J and Mr JC playing duets together.  They are very good!

Getting some long overdue work done on the house.  Getting new siding (old on top, new on the bottom)

and then we are painting the house.  I love the gray color.  Excited to have it all done!

My hibiscus is going crazy right now, and it is gorgeous!  They are huge!

Thanks for catching up with us!  Hope all is well with you and yours!  Have a great week! 

2023 Blue Jeans Week 26

I am a little behind.  Major life change for me this week was I started working full time remotely.  I am a grant writer for a mental health clinic.  I am super excited about it, but figuring out the whole life balance thing has been tricky, so we are late getting this posted, but it's all good!

We had some super hot days this week.  Over 100 for 3 days, and Mr J did some chalk art to remind us that it was HOT!

Got my home office set up.  A big change for me working full time remotely, but it is a great opportunity!

Mr J played a game with me this week.  Ben was out camping with the young men from our church over the 100+ degree days.  Not fun, but Mr J and I had fun playing games and keeping cool.

Another way we kept cool was trying the new lemonade shake from A&W.  Highly recommend.  I am a huge fan of Chick-fil-A's frosted lemonade, and I thought this was better than that.  So yummy!  Perfect summer treat!

Ben and I went to the city on Saturday and on the way home we passed a sunflower field, so we had to stop and get a photo.  So pretty!

There were some storms rolling in, and the clouds were so pretty on our drive home.  

Thanks for visiting!  Hope you are healthy and happy and safe!  Have a great week!

 

2023 Blue Jeans Week 25

Hope all the father's out there had a great Father's Day.  We are so grateful for the fathers, grandfathers, uncles and amazing men in our lives!  Ben is the best!  It was a fun week.  We all got away to different places and had fun.  Take a look...

Mr and Mrs A made this pretty amazing Father's Day Card! 

Our Amazing Ben and who joined us for Father's Day.  Love having them here!

Mr J's awesome gift to Ben.  Hamilton figurines :)

My cake this month was for Father's Day.  It is a German chocolate bundt cake.  Ben likes German chocolate, and this did not disappoint!

Date night this week was our town's weekly summer band concert on the square.  A fun summer tradition that we like to go to at least once a summer.  It is a good date night!

We took off Friday for a little weekend getaway to Northwest Arkansas.  It has a lot of bike trails.  We enjoyed some bike rides around a beautiful lake.

We had this whole crew with us which was so fun!

They also had a temple open house in Bentonville, AR that we enjoyed going through. Such a beautiful building!  Right after they build them, they open them to the public to tour for free before they close it just for church use. 

Enjoying some outdoor art.

We needed a treat one night, so the three of us went out for a shake and ice cream cone.  Yum!

While we were exploring in Arkansas for the weekend, these three were exploring some national parks.  They went to Bryce National Park.

And they also went to the Grand Canyon. So cool!  They camped and hike around both places.  So fun they are together!  Fun weekend all around.

Thanks for visiting!  Hope you are safe, happy, and healthy wherever you are!  Have a great week!

 

2023 Blue Jeans Week 24

Super great summer week here. I took a day and went up to the city to see the C's.  Love that they are so close!!!!  Take a look at our week...

Sunday we had extra time for our game, so we did Catan.  It is a classic that I love to play.

Went up to the city to spend some time with the C's.  Took them to get super yummy BBQ!  So excited they are so close!

Mr J went for a walk and picked me some wildflowers this week.  Love it!

The C's brought out my grandmother's table for me.  Got it all set up.  Many memories growing up sitting around this table and eating my DeeDee's amazing food and cookies.  So much love!  I am blessed that I was able to get it when she passed.  

Our hydrangea looks gorgeous right now!

Date night this week was playing some of our two person games on the side porch.  It was a beautiful evening and fun to be together.

Saturday was all things sourdough...making sourdough pizza for dinner, making sour dough bread and feeding my sour dough starter.

Made sour dough sandwich bread, and it is so good!  Using the cookbook from Lo's Kitchen here

And look who came down this weekend for Father's day?  So fun the C's are so close!  Mr J enjoys not being the only child now.  We enjoyed sourdough pizza, played some games, and watched a movie Saturday night.  So fun!

Thanks for visiting!  Hope you are safe, healthy and well wherever you are.  Have a great week!