2022 Blue Jeans Week 20

Summer is officially here!  School is out for the summer!  Great week.  Mr J made it to state track!!!  So exciting! Here is a look at our week...

Every school day Mr J gets up and gets to a scripture study class at 6 a.m. with these other awesome kids!  Their amazing teacher is moving this summer so we wanted to get a picture of all the students for her. 

Did you see the lunar eclipse?  It was pretty awesome!

Getting some yard work done with these pretty iris in bloom right now.

Had a beautiful evening this week with no wind, so we set up a makeshift badminton court and played tonight in the front yard.

My cake for May...Reese's Toast Cake with the best Peanut butter frosting from Cake by Courtney.  Yummy!

Last day of junior year!  Our traditional "Toyota" jump to celebrate the end of a great school year!  Ahh!  last senior year coming up!

Cool air show near our house this weekend.  They were all WWII era plans and so fun to see fly in formations!

Regional track meet was this week after school got out and this kid leading the pack made it to state for the 2nd year in a row!!!  Woohoo!  Way to go Mr J! Proud of your hard work!!!

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2022 Blue Jeans Week 19

We had a way too hot week this past week.  We were over 90 every day, and it is way too early for that!  Had end of the year band concert, league track and some other fun things.  Take a look at our week...

My mother's day gift was all these flowers and better yet was Ben planting them for me.  I didn't have to plant a single one.  Best mother's day gift ever!

Enjoying so many birds on our feeders lately--humming birds and this beautiful Oriole.  Love our bird feeders!

Had lunch with my awesome friend this week.  We get together once a month.  We met checking people in at the COVID vaccine clinics last year. 

End of the year band concert.  Mr J doing awesome with his jazz band!

Blurry picture, but he had a solo and it was amazing!

Donated blood.  First time that we didn't need to wear a mask in over 2 years!

League track meet and Mr J rocked it in the 2 mile!  League champion and moving onto Regionals next week!  So proud of him!

Our high school graduation was the past weekend.  It was outside, and it was hot!  Ben took this shot of me and the other board members on the stage.  Thankfully the graduation was only 42 minutes long (but who was counting?) in the hot May sun!  Not normal May weather for us! 

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

2022 Blue Jeans Week 18

Hello!  What a week!  Miss E headed to Europe for a summer study abroad program, we have some beautiful flowers, we had a LOT of rain, we heard a lot of band music and our date night was a track meet.  Take a look at our week...

Miss E getting ready to board the plane to Europe for the summer!  So exciting!!!

Mr J's jazz band played a show with the local community college jazz band.  It was a great show!  Lots of good music!

Miss E in ROME!  She is there with a study abroad program with her university.  She was been wanting to go for the last 2 years, but COVID, so she was SO excited to finally get to go!!!  She will be going all over Europe.  Her dream!

We have some iris blooming!  So pretty and wet from the rain over night.

One of the beautiful tulips we have blooming right now. 

We got SO much rain (multiple inches over consecutive days) that our basement was getting close to flooding, so we spent a sleepless night pumping out our window wells so the basement would not flood!  Thankfully it didn't but it was a long, wet night.  

Date night this week involved driving to a track meet and enjoying watching it together.  It was a nice night and Mr J got first in his 2 mile race which was awesome!!!

Saturday was an all day band fundraiser day. Ben and I took turns helping to drive around band kids to play at different people's homes.  People paid us to play for people, and it was a great fundraiser, but a very long day!  Great group of kids!

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

2022 Blue Jeans Week 17

We were part of the week still visiting college kids and then came home.  So fun to be with our college kids and be together!  Got home and hit the ground running!  Had a college junior day visit with Mr J and a fun trip for Mr and Mrs A.  Take a look at our week...

Mr J had a piano recital while we were gone.  He had 2 duets with his friend and then one solo.  We got to listen to them practice since we were missing the recital.  They did a great job!

Back at the cabin, the kids decided to do a 2000 piece puzzle and spread it out over a chair and end table and the box.  It was really big.  We didn't get it done before we left, but Mr JC and Mrs OC got it almost done before they had to leave.  We decided 1000 piece puzzles are the best :)

Went to see my amazing 96 year old Grandma (DeeDee) and she showed me this picture.  She said it was her favorite of her family growing up.   She was one of 5 girls.  She is on the far right.  A family treasure for sure!

And it was so fun to see my DeeDee now!  Sure love her and she is amazing!!!

Mr and Mrs A headed out on a fun adventure to visit several national parks in CA, Oregon and Montana for their summer vacation before jobs start in a few weeks.  So pretty!

College visit junior day with Mr J.  Visited the home of the NCAA basketball champions--the Kansas Jayhawks, and this is where they play basketball.  Had a great day.  It is was a good experience for Mr J to be in a college campus and help him decide where he wants to go in a few years!

Date this week was an amazing concert of a brother and sister with one playing the piano and one the cello.  It was classical music, and it was so good!  Love my dates with this guy!

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