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Well we haven't been doing much. I've been trying to potty train Ella. She is doing good, but she is very stubborn and hard to bribe. It seems to work better to take something away than to promise her something if she goes potty. I'm having a hard time finding motivation to get out of the house. It seems like the kids are more cranky, or maybe I'm just less tolerant, I don't know. But we did meet Josh at a fun park on his lunch hour. The kids fed the fish and watched the turtles.

I threw out some cosmos and painted sunflower seeds, and they kind of got away from me. I wanted to post some pictures of my overgrown front yard.  You can't see the tallest one, but I  was expecting most of these plants to stay somewhat short, like under 36", but I have one that is going to top out taller than me. Okay that isn't that tall, but it looks pretty big next to the deck. One of my sunflowers finally bloomed, I thought it was really pretty.

The best $22 I ever spent. We finally got around to putting in the sand box. Since we moved our garden out side of the fence we decided to move the garden dirt and put in sand for the kids. The rocks we already had and I bought the ground cover for other things so, It cost us for the sand. Wyatt would spend almost all day out there if I would let him. Ella isn't quite as enthusiastic, but I can say that it is well worth the investment. Now we just have to decide what to do with the big pile of dirt we had to pay for because we live in an old river bed. I think we'll have to move it and put a patio and fire pit back there. Eventually.

Enjoy the rest of the Summer. I'm doing good coming up on 7.5 months. Hasn't been too bad, still playing volleyball.