I've never felt overwhelmed by water. I've never worried about it, nor have I ever even considered how it must feel to be those who live along the mississippi river as the snow begins to melt or anything like that.

Today that changed.

This morning we woke up and we saw this...


These were taken from our house, the water has actually receded quite a bit since when we first saw it. It was maybe up another 10 ft. towards the house around 7 this morning.








Mike went out to investigate, to find that in the northeast corner of the property the water was a full 18 inches, and ranged down to around 12. After looking around for a while, I said, you know we should check the crawl space and we found 6-8 inches of water underneath the house. Now that is disconcerting.

I've been in touch with our landlord and they are going to send someone over to pump out the water, but they have a whole slew of properties that need to be pumped out, so I imagine it'll be a while before they show up here. I don't even want to think about the mold\mildew that could show up from this.

It's been a rough morning.

seriously?

This morning I threw up so hard, I managed to make my nose bleed.

Seriously... Is that really necessary?
still puking at 22 weeks isn't bad enough? really?


Somedays, I just want to be a normal pregnant person.

oppressive

that's what's on the horizon, and it's been like that for the past couple of days. the heat is oppressive. the air feels heavy to breathe. there are cooling centers now open in our town for those who need a reprieve, as the heat index has been above 100 the last couple of days, and is supposed to climb well above 100 the next two days as well. heat warnings are in effect and they encouraging people to stay in their homes. it's so dry out, everything is turning brown, our garden desperately needs rain, and this stifling heat isn't helping.

we are thankful for our AC. while they are running constantly to keep the house cool, i'm so incredibly thankful for a place to cool off.

first fruits

we picked our first yield.

3 yummy cucumbers. we've downed 2 of them since yesterday.

SO SO good!

It's a............

boy oh boy... baby it's a....





GIRL!

a good morning at the zoo

I've been itching to take Levi back to the Zoo. We had such a great time the last time we went. Looking at our calendar for July has me rather depressed. Every weekend but 1 is booked, not with bad things, just stuff going on. After asking around for a couple of days to find someone to go with us (because it's just more fun with a grown up to talk with) I couldn't find anyone, so I decided to brave it alone today.

Levi and I trucked out of the house around 8:45 this morning, and arrived blissfully early at the zoo. It was us and the zoo trainers. (note to self: always go this early) We had a great time wandering around looking at everything, we looked mostly at the monkeys which Levi really loved. Around 10:30, the zoo really picked up in busyness. Levi was starting to get tired, and I wanted to make it home before nap time, so we left to head home around 11.

It was a *perfect* morning. Levi was great, he listened well, and we just had a good time together. The zoo was not busy, and today I was SO thankful for the family pass we received as a Christmas gift. When he got tired, we headed home. Even though we'd only been there for maybe an hour and a half, and hadn't even seen the "africa" part of the zoo yet, I knew there would be another day for that. So, we left... we said, bye, bye, zoo... and headed out. No tantrums, no screaming, just see ya later zoo, because I knew we would definitely be coming back again.

So thankful for these special moments that I can spend with Levi this summer, as next summer will have an entirely different feel with a family of 4.

summer camping

We survived our first summer camping adventure, minus the rain.

We went out Thursday afternoon, literally got our tent set up everything inside, and it downpoured for probably 45 minutes. We sat in our tent waiting....It semi cleared up later that night, but was still drizzly and Friday morning we woke up to the same event. rain. Around 10:30 that morning as it was still raining and it was impossible to do anything because everything was soaked, we bailed and went to a local kids indoor playplace.By friday evening it had started to clear up a little bit and Saturday looked promising. Saturday was a great day, filled with the lake, sand, sun and fun, good naps, complete with a trip for ice cream. We packed up sunday and came home. I took no pictures, half the time it was raining, the other half we were just trying to enjoy the nice weather we did have :)

This was our annual camping trip with friends. We had a great time, though I think we all agreed that maybe we should schedule a kid free camping adventure. Camping with kids is really really fun, but we all talked of the days of camping, sitting around reading for hours, going for lazy walks, taking a random nap... ahhhh... good times. :) Maybe later this year, or maybe we'll hit up Barakel's couples' retreat in the fall.. half camping, half barakel :)

Probably the most unsure part of the trip was Levi. (as is any 2 yr old) This is the first summer he has not slept in his Pack N Play and we weren't sure how he'd do. The first night he ended up in between us, but after that, he was a champ. He had tons of fun, and just loved being outside playing in the dirt and grime ;) you know boy like activities. :)

Sadly our tent did not make the trip home. The zipper decided to completely brake while we were there, as well as a tent pole. (boo) We had it for 6 years, and we knew we'd be getting one for next summer, just to have some more space with baby #2... ah well... guess it'll be earlier...

Speaking of Baby #2... I've been feeling the baby move here and there which is so fun. Our ultrasound is next week! It's kind of exciting this time around. Last time we didn't find out, so it was kind of "meh" but this time we are planning to find out what we're having, so providing little bean cooperates, we'll know next wednesday!