Weekend Adventures

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there. ~Barbara Bush

What a gorgeous last few days.  Sure, we had a little much needed rain here and there, but for the most part the weather was spectacular for me.  Not overly hot, but tolerable heat, and heat that made all of us want to get out and explore a little more and take advantage of.

And despite being a full time farmer now, and not usually knowing the difference between a Monday and a Saturday as we work every day of the week, for some reason it did seem like an extended weekend to me anyway.  I'm sure that was because the two big kids were off of school Friday and again today and having their presence around the house made it "different".  A LOT LOUDER but different.

To anybody who knows me, my kids are my world, and despite the fact that I am a lot of times dragging butt by roughly noon or thereabouts from getting up so early I made a point of spending some extra time with them this weekend while they were off of school and doing some things together. 

Jeff has been busy at the farm doing field work that he hasn't taught me how to do yet (notice I said yet), so we planned some of our days around bringing him lunch to the field.  And it is a given that anytime we bring lunch to the field you can expect us to have to hang around for a little bit so Luke can get a tractor ride for a little while.  But you know what?  It is worth it to see the look on his face every time he is sitting in Daddy's lap on that tractor.  His smile is ginormous!!!

So what did we do for entertainment?  Well, we found some real cheap entertainment within walking distance from our house (although we chose to drive down there this time), we headed to the lake!!!

I know a lot of people rip on the lake and how dirty it is and what not, but I don't care, I think we are very lucky to have this so close by and to be able to just walk or ride bikes down there on any given day to break up the monotany of our daily routine.

Zach and Luke took advantage of the gorgeous weather immediately and didn't waste any time getting into the water.  I am not a water person really and would much rather hang out on the beach and just "observe" and relax a little.

Sam's idea of being at the beach is text messaging the entire time, but isn't that what every 14 year old girl thinks she needs to be doing these days?!  Ugh! 

In-between texting her and I did manage to have some good conversation so I suppose it wasn't all that bad.

I love to sit back and watch my boys interact with each other.  Even though they do fight occasionally, it is obvious that little Luke really looks up to his big brother and just loves to hang out with him.

And Zach was a gracious big brother and let Luke (with the help of Mom) bury him in the sand.  Luke thought that was cool as all heck!!!

It was nice.  We went early before it got too hot and before it got too busy with people.  It's a lot easier to keep track of your kids when the beach and water is emptier.

I dipped my feet in the sand and the water.  It seemed cold so that was all the farther I ventured.

Instead I decided to sit back, relax and take in all the sights around me.

Sorry...I just couldn't help it :)

I hope all of you are having a wonderful Memorial Day weekend and wanted to end this by giving a shout out to all of our service men and women who are serving or have served for our country.  The sacrifices you have made for our country are unbelievable and for that I am extremely grateful.  God Bless every single one of you always!!!