Back from Maine

We made it back from Maine. We pulled our pop-up camper this year. It worked out well. We even traveled through the mountains of NY, VT, and NH.

Our Maine relatives seemed to think we brought Iowa weather with us since there were torrential rains and tornado warnings when we got there....for three days. But then the sun came out and we went to our annual visit to Storyland. We stayed at a campground right on Sebago lake so we were able to swim every day it didn't rain.

The main purpose of our visit was for the 60th anniversary party for my parents and the 50th anniversary party for Tim's parents. They were both great parties and allowed us to see all of our relatives on these two days.

We returned to Iowa to find 100+ heat indexes.

School starts in just over 2 weeks. We are never ready for school to start. But, we still have several camping trips planned.

Land of the golden sunsets

I took this photo the day that the tornadoes hit Iowa. We watched the storms pass by to the North while we were camping. This was the sunset that night. Kelsey is using some of these for her 4-H project at the county fair.

Kelsey's Spring Musical

And now for some random clips. Kelsey was in a musical that was a tribute to the "oldies". She is in the front left in lime green.

Erin is Fabulous...again

Erin did her own dance to this song this winter. Later, the dance studio selected this song for her tap routine. She was well practiced. She is in the second row with the same orange glasses she used last time.

Summer Vacation

What have we been doing since school let out? The girls had their dance recital and we went to our annual trip to Okoboji. The weather has been beautiful now that the rains have stopped.

Glorianne Graduates

We recently traveled to western Kansas to attend my graduation from Fort Hays State University where I earned a Master's in Communication Studies. I got to meet my faculty and see the beautiful campus.

End of school is nearing

I just had to take this picture when I saw it.

Tomorrow we head off for our weekend trip to Kansas. I am graduating!!! The kids are excited because they can add two more states to their list of visited states...Kansas and Missouri.

The kids get out of school two weeks from today. Then we will begin some of our summer activities. So far we have Okoboji, camp, an Indy race, and Webster County fair on our list. We will also want to camp in our pop up camper and see some baseball games. I am teaching all summer (online).