by Jewel
On Friday this big branch randomly fell out of the crabapple tree. Sarah was out weed-whipping and heard a whoosh and looked over and it was on the ground. Apparently it got rotten or something.
Friday night all the kids came over. Everyone was home, because the big kids were leaving for Alabama for a young group invite on Saturday.
Kiowa and Flint were both really happy.
Jesse managed to break the swing somehow, but some good ol' twine fixed the problem.
Ben thought it necessary to climb the tree,
and so Kiowa was pretty impressed with that.
There was a cool little sundog thing. I'm not sure what it's really called.
Flint was impressed by Ben too.
The snow cones were a pretty big hit, and Flint really liked them, even though there's no pictures of him eating it.
On Saturday morning, Dad, Sarah, Josh, and I hauled out about seven loads of manure with the fourwheeler and wagon before Levi and Echo finally came over and we switched to the manure spreader. Things went a lot faster then, especially with Levi helping.
After it was done, Levi sprayed out the skid steer, because they'd used that some.
Kiowa really likes the horses, so I guess in this picture they're just petting them, even though it looks like Sarah's bringing them in.
Once Levi and Echo left, we went down to the lake, where Jesse and Lucy were also. Josh went down to the creek though, and found a little buddy for York, our other turtle. In the end though, Josh gave it to Levi.
Josh made this cool dam.
Once we got back, there was a big clean-up session, including putting this chair in the trash.
Mom's dreaming of the garage staying just like this.
The big kids, who were driving down to Alabama, had some excitement 30 minutes from their destination. They were caravanning with the Rinehart van when they had to slam on the brakes. The Rinehart van behind them did the same, and was fine, but then was pushed into our van by the truck behind them.
The van that was pushed into us is now totaled. But no one got hurt so that was good.
Sunday we went down to the lake again for a while, even though it was kind of cloudy.
I don't know what these pictures are from. Mom must have taken them.
Sunday night we went to Grandpa and Grandma's, and Levi and Echo's were there too.
Monday was another workday, but Dad let us have a break and a Mountain Dew.
I used some of my breaktime to ride Diamond around the field.
The zoo got some clean-up.
Jesse was here for a while, working on his paddle board, which wasn't in best shape after sitting out in the weather for several years. In the end he decided he would just make a new one, so hopefully if he gets it done in time we can use it this summer at the lake.
Hauling away branches from the walnut trees.
Josh was also building something or other for the chick pen.
And something for his pigeon coop.
So that's the end of a good Memorial Day Weekend.
The End.
