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The Bunch Are Ready To Get Back To LIFE!



Ok. We are ready to let the kids go out with their friends, shake hands with old friends, give family members hugs, watch sports games, and basically get back the lives that prior to 2020 everyone took for granted. It feels so close finally. We use to travel several weeks at a time and do all kinds of fun and different stuff frequently. We are just planning weekend get aways at state parks for this summer (whenever we can get in), but we plan to spend a week in Branson this Christmas season and we are all very excited about it. A is upset she might not get to go because of school, but that is just how it is. We will do something fun with her when she has some time available.  It is hard to grow up and get your own set of responsibilities that aren't just family related. We will miss her on the fun outings she won't be able to go on with us, but really appreciate the ones she can go on with us.

T and I planted our starters this week for our garden. We planted 3 basil, 2 broccoli, 2 lettuce, 24 tomato, 12 okra, 6 pepper, 2 jalepeno, 6 cantaloupe, 50 carrots, and 50 corn. It sounds like a lot, but we plan to freeze a big part of it and jar several quarts of homemade marinara sauce. Making homemade marinara sauce last year was, surprisingly, easy and it tasted phenomenal! It was hard on us last summer when we didn't have anymore tomatoes to make sauce. Last year we only had 3 tomato plants so with 24 this year, we should get a lot of tomatoes to make sauce with!
Our little baby plants.

I am not sure why, but the kitten loves Kleenex boxes.



We took A's senior photos this week and had some fun with it. She is FINALLY starting to get into the celebration of graduating. L is super excited she gets to have two friends come over for her birthday next week and has their iteinary all planned including what to serve at each meal. I am just excited that we get to get away for a few days and go camping. My parents have received their first vaccine shot. Life is good. Maybe 2021 will be better than 2020.
It was actually really hard to get the hat in the air.

Iris has to be part of ANYTHING we do outside. She loves people....well if they DON"T try to ride her!

Iris swore the board had to be some sort of treat.

So proud of this young lady.


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