Beating the Heat...

It has been one HOT summer. I am so grateful for air-conditioning.

Jasmyn returned from her stay with her Aunt, Uncle, and cousin. Hannah has never been happier to see "Thithter!" Jasmyn had a great time. She enjoyed a couple concerts, art shows, movies, and shopping.

Hannah not wanting to let Jasmyn go.

We went to the movies and Jasmyn decided to sit in Hannah's seat on the way there. Silly girl!

Hannah had her hair cut. She sat still...for her. She enjoyed the hair cut, however, having the cut hair land on her kind of stressed her a little. She had to keep picking it up off of her and throwing it on the ground.

Sprinkler fun!!! She kept putting her bottom into the sprinkler and giggling. Hannah had so much fun in the sprinkler!

Jasmyn recently had her friend stay over. All three of the girls went out to paint in the evening.

The big girls took poster boards and Hannah decided that she would use the side of the building as her canvas. Laughter was in abundance!

Congratulating each other on a job well done.

Jasmyn's

Cassidy's

Hannah's.

Li'l Gardener...

We have a Li'l gardener here on the farm.

The pictures are in reverse order.

They are trying to save a dying Citronella plant by transplanting it. They have already saved two by transplanting.

Hannah also got her very first "big girl" bike. She has so much fun on it.

A few of her flowers. She picks them daily. Can you tell she likes yellow?

And this is Hannah's pride and joy right now. Her first watermelon. She planted the plant early on in the spring and spotted this little melon the other day. When she goes and checks it she makes a slurping sound and says "Mmmm. Yummy!"

Progress...

Painting has begun in the kitchen this week. Hannah helped. I believe she put more paint on herself and the floor then the wall, but the laughter was worth it!

The color is Mocha Mousse.

Pictures of Hannah's painting job. She got to help with the priming.

She had such a great time helping.

Jasmyn is at her Aunt, Uncle, and cousin's for the week. She has been shopping, to the amusement park, and a concert already.

Dolan has been working ridding the world of pests, trying to maintain equipment of the farm, and mowing. His work is never done.

I have been recovering. A long slow process. A lot slower then what I thought. On a positive note: Relatively Painless! YAY!

Still seeing doctors and there is a chance that I will need another surgery in the very near future. Masses were found on my thyroid. 3 to be exact. 2 solid and one cystic. The biopsies are this upcoming week. The results appointment is early next week. Right now it seems as if it is one thing right on top of another. I will get through it though. Keeping my head up and trying to keep my eyes open.

Summer so far...

Summer fun!

WOW! These are completely out of order! So I will just give a description of our last month.

I had a hysterectomy on the 21st of June. On the 23rd of June i was re-admitted into the hospital with pneumonia. They quickly treated the pneumonia but it set back my healing from the hysterectomy. To be quite honest, recovery is going great. I expected so much pain and really I haven't had much. For the first week or two I was exhausted and not able to stay awake during the day. Now I am able to get around but not do too much. And usually the next day I am so tired that I really don't move much.

This is so much better than what we thought it would be.

We have made a few trips to North Platte. The fourth of July we went up and took Jasmyn's friend Cassidy with us. Jasmyn got her ears pierced, we ate at Applebees, went to Cody park, then watched fireworks (also known as "Sprinkles!" by Hannah). We tried going to the mall but it had closed. Jasmyn tried going to Shopko and she was right back out of the store within 30 seconds...they yelled at her to tell her the store was closed, yet the doors were unlocked. At Cody park we only got to enjoy the rides for 15 minutes before they closed them down.

So we fed the animals. The deer were eating out of their hands.

This bunny was at a farm store we ventured to the next trip to North Platte. Hannah must have stayed there looking at the bunny for half of an hour.

The next trip to North Platte we managed to start some school shopping. Hard to imagine that both my girls are going to be in school now. Another trip to Cody park proved to be a nice FREE afternoon. The rides were all free that day! Hannah had such a wonderful time!

Hannah made a new friend while there. His name was Alex. They talked and danced around.

Life has been uncomplicated lately and I am thankful for that. Everyone has been doing wonderfully and staying healthy.

Hannah has been accepting and patient with me during recovery.

Jasmyn has been helping around the house and not complaining about it.

Dolan has been a great nurse and "mom". He has been making up for all that I couldn't and even what I still can't manage.

God has blessed me with a great family and wonderful friends!