Photo Dump!

 The house is bustling and work is active for both Jeff and I. So no major story or update today, but photos from random this and that. Looking forward to seeing family this weekend and will have an update on how the SW Kansas peeps are doing! 

Why do I pick up bananas every week? 

So we can have banana muffins on the weekend!

Enjoying great company at the Potwin porch concert. 

One of my favorite summer events followed closely by Potwin 4th of July!

Everyone contributes to the wall art!

I love how this one turned out. We now have 4 puzzles decorating the dining room.

A quick rant about these books. I love them, they are addicting. However I like to read 3 books a month. This one I finished on Sunday is 700 pages long. I'll be lucky to complete two books this month. Still recommend this series. LOL 

June Check-In ✔️

 When I was thinking about updates I needed to make, I realized I missed a big one from the beginning of the month: Daryl had his wisdom teeth pulled! Just dumb teeth left. LOL (Mom Joke!)

Alex and I were both ready for one of those funny recovery videos, but Daryl didn't cooperate. However, he wouldn't stop Snapchatting while he was in recovery, and I told him that was a bad idea. After a nap at home, he asked, “Why didn't you stop me?!”

He won't be going viral for his routine procedure, but I did get some big goofy grins out of it, so that's something!

His words of wisdom, the soft-food diet is worse than the pain of having the teeth pulled.

Quick update on summer activities:

• Daryl is doing summer baseball at Dornwood.
• Lucas is doing a Parks and Rec camp for older kids. He says they're using them as free labor, and Jeff and I are okay with that!
• Aaron is doing theatre camp.
• Alex is doing tennis drills at Kossover.
• Joseph is doing zoo camp.

We're halfway through June, and so far, so good!

Settled in at home

Nurse Lola is on duty!

The snap he shouldn't have sent, but I'm going to post anyway. LOL 

And a flashback to June 2017 when our favorite place to bike was Mount Hope Cemetary!

More Graduates!

When you send your kids to five different schools, you end up having to be in a lot of places at the same time. PS, do not recommend. LOL!

Yesterday was also Aaron’s 8th grade graduation from Landon Middle School and Joseph’s 5th grade promotion from Whitson Elementary. With both 8th grade ceremonies happening at the same time (8am), we had to divide and conquer. Jeff went one way while I went to Alex’s ceremony.

I’m sad I missed Aaron’s :-(

We all met up at Whitson later for Joseph’s 5th grade promotion at 10am. Both Aaron and Alex wore cords celebrating their GPAs, and Joseph received a couple of academic awards too. What can I say? I’m surrounded by NERDS! :-p

After the ceremonies, we had to have our traditional last day of school lunch. But even that had to change because we always went to Red Lobster in the past. This year we went next door to Chili’s, and while the company was great, the wait for a table definitely was not! We may need to rethink our last day of school lunch spot.

So happy that next year we’ll only be at 3 schools instead of 5, with 3 of our kiddos at T-High!

This morning, the first day of summer break, I was almost late to work because I didn’t have to take anyone to school. The summer schedule is definitely going to take some getting used to!

Happy Graduation Aaron!

Happy Promotion Joseph!

Last day of school 2026

Last day of school 2019!

Fun at the Theatre!

So we made it through Spring Break, barely! The kids went back to school today, and they are not as thrilled as Jeff and I are. We’re down to the last nine weeks of school, and this is when everything hits.

Lucas had spring break last week, so we had him home for a few days. I think his favorite part was the access to the fridge. I had to restock everything in the pantry after he went back to school, LOL.

Before Spring Break, Aaron was in his middle school musical. It was a really cute production called Frankie Builds Androids. Aaron had a number about flying frisbees, and we were all singing that for a couple of days. It was catchy!

During Spring Break, Aaron participated in the Civic Theatre spring break camp, and Joseph went to zoo camp. At theatre camp, Aaron was cast as Shrek in Shrek Kids. I don’t know how they put together such a good show in five days, but it was awesome. He did a great job!

Now the calendar is going to fill up with baseball, tennis, track, and band. Here we go!

This is how the Meerpohl boys spent most of their days. 

Middle school production.