Friday, 8/16/19...Took Melissa to therapy, Had Max, Jack and Evan over, Went to the Fair to watch Jacob and Adam in Showmanship contest, Celebrated Jack's 11th Birthday

Max with his shirt on listing most of the places we went. Holding his moose picture Papa gave him from the Marine Corp. League

Brooklyn (Hailey's friend) Hailey, Jack, Evan and Max

Max, Jack and Evan at my house

Jacob showing a horse

Jacob showing the horse to the judges...The kids had to walk, run, back up and turn it sideways

Adam showing a horse

Adam

Adam

Adam

Jacob walking a pig

Aam walking a pig

Adam and Jacob

Eli, Adam and Jacob

Jacob walking Adam's sheep...they couldn't walk their own

Jacob with the judge

Adam

Adam with Jacob's sheep

Adam

Jacob walking a dairy cow

Adam with a dairy cow

Adam 2nd from the right

Jacob walking a beef cow...It was huge

Jacob

Adam showing a beef cow

Adam in the middle

Adam

Adam

We celebrated Jack's 11th Birthday tonight at Bruce and Melissa's

Jack with his birthday cake

Jack getting ready to blow out the candles

Melissa, Jack and Bruce

Jack and Hailey

Jack opening gifts

Jack, Evan and Hailey

Jack, Caleb and Hailey

Jack and Caleb

Evan, Papa and Jack

Took Melissa to therapy and brought Jack, Max and Evan home with me.  We watched a movie, ate pizza and had ice cream treats.  Jack, Papa and I had a Drumstick and Max and Evan had ice cream sandwiches.  I left to go to watch Jacob and Adam in the showmanship contest at the fair.  All the first place winners were in it.  They each had to walk a horse, a pig, a beef cow, a dairy cow and a sheep.  It was so fun to watch.  Adam and Jacob didn't like walking the pigs very much.  They did a really good job and I was so proud of them.  One girl's cow acted up and was dragging her while she was standing...she kept hanging on and was making me very nervous.  She finally let go and they got her a new cow to walk.  Yikes!  Glad the boys didn't have that cow.  I made chicken in the air fryer and corn on the cob for dinner.  At 7 we went to Melissa and Bruce's to celebrate Jack's 11th Birthday.
Lots of fun and yummy cake and ice cream.

Thursday, 8/15/19...Eli came to spend the day, Vikki, Peyton, Isaac, and Kody came over, Went out with Charlie and Sue

Eli relaxing with his new blanket that he loves

Eli

Eli at the light up table at McDonalds

Eli...he has outgrown the play land at McDonalds...He said he was squished

Eli, Kody, Peyton and Isaac

Kody and Peyton doing the splits

Kody with his glow rock egg from Mt. Rushmore

Eli relaxing after he watched the other three kids in the basement.  We heard him say "No, you can't do that".  He did a great job and earned two dollars.  He did offer to pay his dad the two dollars if he would let him stay here

Back in the middle of this field is where the explosion was yesterday

Nice note Bill received from Senator Ken Horn

Thought this was so sweet of him to do

Jared dropped Eli off at 7 a.m.  We sure were happy to have him spend the day.  He was sitting in the family room and I went in to the living room and put worship music on.  Next time I looked, he was sitting in the living room singing.  We told Google Mini to put Worship singers he likes on you tube on the TV.  I love hearing him sing.  He sings so good!  He went to Tim Horton's with Papa and reached in the bag and accidentally ate Papa's donut.  Then he ate his own.  Papa didn't order another one and that's probably a good thing.  We hung out when he got home and then went to McDonalds.  

The play area was packed as we got there right at noon.  We sat out in the other area at a light up table and ate.  We prayed we would get the light up table in the playroom.  Eli went to look and said there wasn't any room still.  He went back a couple minutes later and was excited because the light up table was open.  We sat there and Eli went to play, but they have made it so much smaller and he is so much bigger that he doesn't fit.  He said he was squished and wanted to go back to my house.  When we got back home, Vikki and the kids were there.  They all had fun together. It was raining outside so they played inside.  Vikki was going to watch Eli here so Jared wouldn't have to get out of work early.  He still picked Eli up before Bill and I left to go out to eat with Charlie and Sue.  We all got a free dinner at the Aurora Buffet.  It was delicious.  We had a great time with them.  Shared our vacation pictures and experiences with them.

Wed., 8/14/19...Did the laundry, Went to lunch with Melissa, Gas leak in field next to us, Went to Bob Evans

Jack with his pizza and breadsticks

Hailey

Evan

Max

Emergency vehicles and Firetruck on our road

WNEM-TV5's picture.  We had just pulled through the corner and saw their white TV5 Vehicle

We both had a fruit plate at Bob Evans

Did laundry in the morning and got it caught up.  Went to get rugs at Bed, Bath and Beyond that Melissa told me about.  They stop dirt, moisture, etc from being tracked in the house.  She had one in her camper and it worked great.  I'm loving them already.  I picked up a Hot and Ready Pizza and Bread sticks to take to Melissa's for the kids, and then Melissa and I went to Tony's for lunch to catch up.  Haven't seen her for almost 2 weeks.  We had breakfast and had a nice visit while we ate.  I went to get some groceries at Aldi's after that.  Got the groceries put away and relaxed listening to worship music for a while when Bill came in and asked if I saw the firetruck go by.  He had been on the lawn tractor and there was an explosion next door in the field.  It almost knocked him off the tractor and scared him.  I went outside and looked and there were more emergency vehicles parked on the road just down from us.  Bill had me unhook the ties on the pool, because he was going to use the little mower to mow around it.  While he was doing that the police came and told him not to use any equipment outside.  They told him we should stay in the house, and if there's another explosion, it would blow the windows out of our house. There was a company putting in drainage in the field and they hit an 8 inch gas pipe.  Chuck and then Wes called us to see if we were ok because they got a notice on their phones about it.  We left and went to Bob Evans to eat dinner.  When we left, they were blocking off our road both ways.  TV5 was just getting here.  We loved the fruit plate with chicken salad in the middle.  When we tried to go home they wouldn't let us even though Bill told them we were the first house down there.  We drove to the other end and couldn't get through, so went to Menard's.  Walked around their for a while.  Vikki and Melissa offered for us to come stay with them.  We went back and talked to our Neighbor who was parked across down by where the road was blocked.  Then we drove back to Tittabawasse and Hacket and the guy wasn't there anymore, but had put up Road Closed Barricades.  There was room to squeeze through, but we though we'd better made sure we could.  We talked to the fire chief at the other end of Hackett and he told us we could drive though the other end to our house, but he didn't want to set a precedent.  We got home and in a couple of hours, saw all the emergency vehicles leave.  Out neighbor, Sandy, came at 10 and asked if we heard anything.  One blessing today, was that Bill called Chase, our neighbor behind us, to see how much we owed him for re asphalting our driveway back by the shed.  He said they had it covered because he got a great deal and our area didn't cost any extra, so he said he wouldn't take any money.  

They sure are nice neighbors.