Summer Stuff

Here are just a few random pictures of our summer here in SD. 

I just love how kids want to do lemonade stands in the summer time!  We had an unbelievably wet summer this year (and last actually).  We haven't had to water our lawn once.  For about a month solid, or more, we had flash flood warnings and tornado warnings 3-4 days each week.  At times our street literally looked like a river because the water was high and rushing down it.  In Sioux Falls and Harrisburg tons of houses had flooding in their basements.  It was so sad really how much damage all this rain caused families and homes.  We even had a road near us that was completely wiped out in one section from a flash flood. The kids had a great time playing in the rain until the city had sewage issues from all the flooding and I decided the gutters probably weren't the most sanitary place to be playing. Yikes!

Oh my goodness, this was a funny story.  I was on the phone with Apple care talking to a technician when Chase decided to take his diaper off and then help himself to some pretzels in the cupboard.  Next thing I know Chase has dumped the whole bag onto the floor and is sitting in them.  Soon he started screaming and crying and it then hit me that he had a really bad rash on his poor little bum and the salt from the pretzels was hurting him!  Poor little guy!  The technician could hear Chase screaming and was kind enough to hold for me so I could take care of him. :)  But you have to admit that it does make for a funny story!  Gracie and Parker were kind enough to pick them all up and put them back into the bag.  And yes, we still ate them!  Haha!   In the next picture you see that Chase also helped himself to some raw corn on the cob as well. :)