July 2022

 July was another great summer month! 

Fourth of July fun!  We enjoyed the annual party at the Olsen's house, a spur of the moment party at our house with the Borowski's and Dan, Lisa, and Liv, and then enjoyed some time with the Halpines on the actual 4th!

 

Also, made some festive dessert, sourdough bagels, and snuck in a quick date to Kinkaider with my man:). 

Wrapped up little league with two much better games!  We lost both, but it was a lot closer than most of the season.  

At the same time, Mike was in charge of the district little league tournament for 12 year olds.  He worked his booty off and was pooped!

Sure do enjoy my workouts with friends in the summer!  It is fun to workout with others:)

Took Joden on a romantic date to the Odyssey.  Trying to teach him how to treat a lady someday:). We had fun and had some great conversation!

Reeve has been doing some dog sitting, cat sitting, and babysitting this summer.  She got paid for her first babysitting gig down the street and the Loschen's.  Also, we get to watch the Borowski girls quite a bit!  We love it:)

The end of the baseball journey for Patriots this year!  Love watching my boy and cheering him on.  We also get to talk a lot about adversity and fighting through the challenges that sports bring.

He is definitely turning into a young man!

Reeve had a sweet opportunity to attend a camp here in GI with some of the Husker women's basketball players.  She loved it!

Family pic from state baseball and end of the year party at the Sodbusters game. State went decent. Won 1, lost 2. Proud of their growth this year! Also, at the Sodbusters game they got to go out and warm up with the players.  So cool:)

We stopped to see cousins on the way home from state!

The Monday after state, de-tasseling began!  He did awesome and we are proud of his ability to get up in the morning and really not complain much at all.  

Fun with friends and family!  We enjoyed dinner in the field with Andrew and stopped at the Wood River bar.  Then below I went to Lincoln for some fun with some of the Schumacher girls.  We did the Farmer's Market and then went out downtown that night.  Rob and Grant met up with us.  I was reminded that I am definitely getting older.  

Finished up open gym!  Sure did love opening up the gym once a week for any girls that wanted to join us.  Looking forward to hopefully growing our program and the amount of girls that love basketball in our community!

Got to enjoy dinner with my family one night!  It was great to all be together:)

Reeve had a busy week with Jumpstart for middle school and a week long basketball camp.  We went to lunch to celebrate her hard work!

Fun with Baylor and Karisa at their place!  Also, fun with friends at dinner group at the Keaslings:)

Tried to copy Reeve--it is much harder than it looks!

Got to go out to the river a few times and had a good time.  Mike leases this property for hunting and wanted to enjoy it now that baseball is done.  We even invited the Borowski's once and Blair loved it:)

June 2022

 June has gone by too fast!  It just seems like everyday it is like where did the day go:). I'd rather that though because it keeps the kids active and gives us all something to do!

Baseball has been a huge chunk of summer!  Joden is playing little league and also a low key travel team called the Patriots.  His team has only won three games, but have come a long ways.  State is in a few weekends, so hopefully we can have some success there!    

Reeve enjoys hanging with all of the little ones at the games:). 

Several members of the Schu Crew have been able to come watch Joden play!  

This is Mason, Aden's brother.  Aden is Joden's good friend.  We have loved getting to know Mason.  He is so cute and makes us laugh.  

For my moms birthday and Mother's Day gift I took her to get her colors done.  Memories are much more my style for gifts:). We had a great time.  I am a summer and my mom is a spring!

VBS was a busy, yet fun week!  Joden is on the God Squad and many people complimented him on how great of a job he does.  We are very proud of him.  I reminded him though that lots of little kids are looking up to him so he needs to make sure he is setting a good example at all times!

Got to have a picnic for Teammates.  It was fun for Mike to get to meet T and then I got to meet her mom.  Come to find out we know of each other from Sidney, where I graduated high school.  Her mom is married to a high school classmate of mine.  It really feels like such a God thing that we are matched together!  

Hear Grand Island is a fun event downtown.  We always go for the Allen Capital Event night and get to hang out with the Kochs and Michels.  This year even more friends came.  We had a good time:)

Reeve stayed later with the Koch girls and lived her best life-ha!

Did the Murph with these gals in celebration of Memorial Day!  It was fun and was not as hard as I thought it'd be.

We celebrated Heather's birthday with a boat ride and some charcuterie boards.  It was a fun night!

Casie turned 40 so we surprised her with aerial yoga and Wasabi.  It ended up being sort of a bust because several of the girls got super nauseous from hanging upside down so much.  

Archery camp for Joden!  He picked this out and had a good time:)

Basketball camp!  Weird that she is in the middle school group now...time is just zipping by!

New Orleans to celebrate 15 years of marriage.  We had so much fun together:). I love Mike so much and love how he is up for all my adventures.  It was fun to learn about New Orleans and how it became the city it is today.  PS-Making time for each other is so very important and I am glad we both see that as a priority!

Pictures include:  Dinner at Peche, a self-guided bike tour, a romantic anniversary dinner followed by a chill night on an outdoor patio, a ghost tour, a food tour, and a brunch at Ruby Sliper before heading out.  

Once we returned it was Father's Day!  These two are pretty darn blessed with the dad God gave them.  It makes my heart very happy to know the example their dad sets for them.  Hopefully it transfers over into their adult lives someday.  

Got to watch the Borowski girls for a day!  We had fun.  Took them to the park, which brought back lots of memories!

Enjoyed catching some friends' games with Avery!  We saw Baylor, Miles, and Brynnslee.

This tower garden has done awesome this time around!

We went to the Riverside pool to help Baylor and Madson celebrate their birthdays.  We had a blast!  You even ran into Brynn there:)

Chocolate Bar date while Yonda cleaned our house:)

Volleyball Camp

We ventured back to the Riverside pool one more time to hang out with Leah.  She couldn't make the party Monday, so she joined us Thursday:). It was a great afternoon with friends and we even got to enjoy an adult beverage!