August Already?

A month???  A whole month since my last posting?!  Good Grief!  Briefly, here's what we've been up to the past four weeks...

• Olive Garden, strolling through the U of I gardens, and Jarlings with Jerry and Gail.
• Walking and walking and walking through the evenings after the days cool.
• Kristin and Nick surprising us with a weekend home full of family get togethers, each around a big meal.
• Karaline coming to visit more than once, ALWAYS including a bath in GranBecky's BIG tub and bouncing on the bed in her pink night gown.
• Lots of evening "Jeep dates."  It is our newest most favorite entertainment!
• A Sunday in Chicago at Wrigley (10th row, by the on deck circle) and Portillo's (hot dogs, onion rings and chocolate cake) with Jo and John.
• Mowing.  Watering.  Pulling weeds.
• A "Bikini-Weenee-Roast" to send Diddy off to college.
• Reading "The Shack" in the shade on the front porch.
• Watching over a new litter of 5 kittens who are now pouncing and bouncing about the farm shop.  Trying to come up with names for all of them.
• A sleep-over and day of back-to-school shopping with Emma.
• Discovering "Hagen Das" mini ice cream bars with almonds.  Only 12 carbs! 
• Seeing "Julie and Julia" TWICE, "The Ugly Truth," "Public Enemies," and "G-Force"
• Alix coming to stay for a weekend.  Teaching her to flip an egg without a spatula.
• An evening of horse races at the county fair.
• Dale starting a new job and Yvette starting her Masters program.
• Napping on Sunday afternoons when it's too humid and too hot to be outside.