Memorial Day 3-day Weekend

We had a super busy, hot, sticky 3 day weekend.  The heat in Iowa is at a record high - it's normally super great weather the end of May - but we have been hit with terrible humidity, and 90+ degrees.  As Kayson said last week - "Did we skip Spring?!"  Pretty disappointing for several reasons!

Friday:
K was scheduled for a baseball game... but the other team didn't show.  So...  since the kids were all there (and even tho it was super hot at 5:30), we stuck around, and the kids had chances to hit the ball and kind of mess around.  Following, we went out for dinner... then home.  Pretty quiet night!

Saturday:
This and that in the morning...  some cleaning and that's about it.  Then we ventured out for a baseball tournament - games for us started at 1:00.  And it was brutally hot.  No breeze, just burning down sun!  Crazy!  Mike and JeanAnn braved the heat with us too...  We did our best to find shade and drank lots of water... the boys did well keeping cool by using those 'cold towels'...  and even more water!  We had 1 loss, 1 win...  we were home around 5:30, ordered pizza and the kids were asleep by 7:40.  WIN for me!  ha.  The heat just takes so much out of us!

Sunday:
We made the 'gold' bracket for the tourney, so our first game was at 8:00... but unfortunately, it was not a win.  The boys don't do well at 8 in the morning!  BUT - I can say Kayson had an amazing hit!  It was caught by a miracle... but it was awesome.  I was so proud of him... and he was excited, just as fast as he was bummed when it was caught!  Poor kid.  But... he had fans to watch him - Scott, Niky, Duke and Brittlyn... plus Hope and Logan.  Nice of them to come. 

So... since it was a loss game... we had the rest of the day free.  Niky invited us down to her sisters house/pond.  We figured - what the heck.  It was brutally hot, but it was better than staying home and being bored!  ha.  So... we went down there, the kids swam in the (dirty) pond (and had a blast!!!), Ryan helped the men put some final touches on a grain gazebo, we had a great little lunch, and we survived the heat again.  It was a really nice day...  but exhausting again!!!  Good thing we had another free day. 

Monday:
We made the trip to Clarion today.  We all hadn't been up there in a long time... needed to get to the cemetery too.  We had a great visit... just hung out, great lunch, Dad was able to be with us for a bit, visited Mom... and back home by 6ish.  

Now we are prepping for our week without Ryan.  It's another busy week... and another hot one too. 

Finally - pictures!!