Weekend Update

Haley waits for candy on the curb! Believe me, her bag might be empty now but it was overflowing by the end! Jeff has found the secret to getting lots of candy for his kids. When every float walked by he would yell as loudly as he could, "HILLS BANK ROCKS!!" and they would just shower Haley with candy. He said this to all 3 banks in town, and even to the float touting Hillary Clinton! (Doesn't that just sound like something Jeff would do?) Haley's preschool that she just graduated from came up and put hand-fulls of candy in her bag!!!

Jenna, Mikayla, and her friend, Ginny, pose at the parade Friday night.

Hello all! I hope you all had a great weekend. We did, a busy one like I referenced in my last post. We had fun walking in the parade and then went back to friends house to make smores in their backyard.

Saturday we had our all church yard sale, we raised app. $600 for the children's playground fund for Heartland. It wasn't as much as I wanted, but it was ok. We have about 2k in our account and we need about 10k. We have a long way to go!!! It is hard to raise large amounts of money when we are working with about 10 kids. We'll keep plugging along. When we finally get that playground, after the new church is built, there will be many tears shed from happiness.

Sunday morning was spent at church, resting in the afternoon, (Jeff had to work at an open house) and then back to church for a cook-out and all church meeting. We got home around 7:30, watched the Cubs lose, and then sat out on our patio and watched the North Liberty fireworks. We have a perfect spot to watch them away from bugs (screened in patio) and the crowds, plus the girls can be in their pj's with teeth brushed and then jump right into bed afterwards. It is perfect!

We had a wonderful lesson this past week in, "If its not broke, don't fix it!" Jeff switched our cable, phone and internet provider b/c they were offering a super deal! Well, the second we switched, the internet became slower than mollasses and the phone was all wacko! It took them 4 days to get back to our house, after giving us the "we will be there between 1-5" schpeel for all 3 days, then on the 4th day they said, "ok we will be there between 8-5!!!" So after carrying around my cell phone attached at my hip all day, they finally called and said they were on their way! Guess what time?!?! 5:15!!! We were due to leave the house for our pre-parade supper at 5:30. We were not happy. I left and went ahead with the girls and Jeff stayed behind. As we arrived home late Friday night we thought "oh well, at least the problem is solved!" Wrongo! We picked up the phone to make a call Sat. morning and guess what, NO DIAL TONE AT ALL!!! So we had to go through a whole weekend with no phone service! I have a family that I am on call for to come at any minute when she goes into labor! Not good! Jeff was on his cell phone at 8 a.m. this morning with the phone company! I will have to keep you updated since you are all so interested! :)

I am off today to buy a pool pass so I can take the kids swimming all summer long. Just what I love to do, be in public with a swimsuit on. Isn't that one of my goals for the summer, to not worry about that.

Have a great Monday.