Special Days

This weekend we finally got around to celebrating special June days. Mary Ellen's
40th birthday and Father's Day. She may be old but her lung capacity allowed her to blow out all forty candles in one quick breath. We were all impressed ! ! ! But her mind is starting to go...when setting up our pool from last year, she realized 1/4 of the way full it was inside out. The lawn was well watered after discovering that mistake. Jim was almost brought to tears over his Father's Day present, the Iowa State Patio Umbrella. For people who think we have too much ISU paraphernalia we say NEVER ! ! The cool front came through and we enjoyed a family weekend outside without sweating to death with grilling, eating, driving tractors and sitting around a campfire. Life was good!

WHO Tractor Ride

Jim just finished two of the hottest days of the year on the WHO radio station sponsored tractor ride, this year based out of Waterloo, IA. The first day was a steamy 95+ with a heat index that felt like 119. The second day was just as bad with a pop up thunderstorm with tornado warning where they put a bunch of the drivers in a church for 2 hours to wait it out. He came home after that getting home at about 11:15 last night. He slept like a log last night and has been enjoying AC today.

Baby Boy Wilson

Leah had her first 4D ultrasound of baby boy wilson. I think he might look like Mike. He had been sucking his thumb but had just pulled it out. First due date was October 20, then the 30th and now they're back to the 20th. Baby weighs one pound. With all the sickness she had and the Wii fit, she's actually lost weight. Doctor says everything is fine.

Thursday, June 18

Last Thursday after 13 years of off and on nagging, Jim finally spent an evening at the sleep clinic. What an experience. I've known others who have done this but had not idea what was involved. Jim wasn't very well rested the next morning. The lady in charge was from Russia, quite an accent. She had lived in Alaska and Colorado. When I asked her what brought her to Iowa she said, "an airplane". We never did find out why she moved to Ankeny, Iowa.

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