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the macs the macs wednesday july 25 2012 hopefully not another crop failure we are still sick here ugh everyone is slowly getting better but it has been a long week i even got sick yesterday just a cold so i am thankful for that but man it stinks to be sick in the summer you wouldn t want to see any pictures of us this week we are a wreck so here are a few of us planting pumpkins before we went on our vacation pumpkins are my favorite thing to grow in our garden i love having lots of pumpkins around in the fall this is the beginnings of our little pumpkin patch joel always laughs at me because i get so excited about planting pumpkins and then he usually ends of doing all the work but levi thinks that gardening is his and daddy s job and really who would document our memories if i wasn t taking the pictures i promise i ll water and pull weeds honey griffin wants to be part of the action so badly instead he has to be contained in his walker because otherwise his mouth would be full of dirt someday little boy look mom i have pumpkins on my head levi watches everything his daddy does so carefully he doesn t miss anything and when he s not watching his daddy he is helping and trying to be just like him and this is what griffin and i did stand in the middle of the garden and watch the boys work we were so helpful our garden has been quite a huge failure this year the heat and drought has been so hard on it bummer so i am hoping that my pumpkins make up for the rest of my crop failures i am quickly learning that gardening may not be my best skill posted by the mcclenahans 10 07 pm 9 comments monday july 23 2012 colorado or bust we ve been on vacation well i m not really sure if i would call it a vacation but that was the plan we left for colorado last sunday and were so excited to get away for a week and escape the kansas heat but this year our vacation was definitely a bust total bummer this is how it went down after five hours of driving and one hour of little brother screaming the car was finally peaceful we were beginning to wonder if the long drive was worth it maybe we should have just stayed home but eight hours later we were hanging out with our dear friends and we decided it was totally worth it screaming and all i didn t take any pictures except on my phone but laura sent me this sweet picture of our boys they played hard the weather was so beautiful in colorado trampoline jumping swinging running swimming talking on the porch snacking and s mores making all day long levi had so much fun and i think griffin was really wishing he knew how to walk so he could chase after these boys i was trying to talk joel into moving the farm to colorado he said it wasn t possible bummer laura just sent me a few more proof that i was actually on this trip too we left colorado springs on tuesday afternoon to head up to my grandparents cabin in the mountains it was just as i remembered beautiful and peaceful i love going to the cabin with my family and i was so looking forward to spending time there we spent the evening laying in the hammock and playing tractors in the wood chips no internet and no phone service perfect shortly after we put levi to bed that night he threw up ugh the rest of the trip pretty much went down hill from there just think lying on the bed watching movies i have way to many boz and veggie tales songs running through my head right now high fever not eating waking up all night everything that shouldn t happen on vacation my sweet grandma took griffin on lots of walks to keep him happy he started running a fever the next day there were times when we thought they were getting better and squeezed in a few fun moments we really needed to get out of the house we even decided to go into the national park one day and give it a try everyone was feeling a little better this was the part of the trip i was really looking forward to hiking on the trails and picnicking in the mountains i have such good memories of doing both of those things with cora and levi we drove just a little way into the national park for our picnic and by the time we got there levi was asleep griffin wasn t too thrilled with the whole picnic idea either levi slept through our picnic and when he woke up this is what we were dealing with definitely not a good day to try hiking back to the cabin to watch more movies the most adventurous we got was hauling pine cones on the deck we kept thinking maybe levi was getting better but on thursday night he was running a really high fever again he was miserable we decided it was time to go home goodbye hiking goodbye cute family picture in the mountains goodbye trip to ikea goodbye going back to colorado springs to hang out with friends some more hello twelve hour car ride with sick kids and to make things worse joel threw up as we were getting ready to leave friday morning i was the last one standing i won t bore you with the details but let s just say that the trip home was one of the longest days ever i was feeling sorry for myself we really needed a break from our everyday and this sickness stuff was really messing up my plans but as we were leaving friday morning the news of the aurora movie theatre shooting was all over the tv and radio such heartache i can t imagine what so many families and friends were dealing with that morning and for many more days and months to come and then i remembered a time when joel and i were driving back from the cabin all alone in a quiet car right after cora died i would have done anything to have a crying little girl in the back seat it gave me some much needed perspective i was thankful that i was going home with my family we were a little sick but we were together i needed that reminder saturday morning we took levi into immediate care it was a little traumatizing but after being checked by the doctor blood work and a chest xray they figured out he had pneumonia what how in the world do you get pneumonia in the summer crazy the rest of our vacation looked a lot like this we realized this weekend that this was the first time since we moved here eight years ago that we were all home all weekend without anything to do except a trip to the doctor we don t have true weekends here on the farm for some reason the cattle think they need to eat two times a day sheesh that really breaks into a girl s weekend actually it really breaks into my hubby s weekend but i really like to have him around i ve tried to argue with joel that they could probably miss just one meal but apparently that s not the case so spending the weekend together at home just hanging out was a really nice change and a good end to our vacation even if it really was a bust this year posted by the mcclenahans 3 58 pm 23 comments thursday july 12 2012 hauling beans helping mama levi is really into hauling things in his loader tractor lately he kept wanting to haul his fruit snacks but apparently one pack is just not enough hauling material he wanted like three or four packs hauling fruit snacks gets a little expensive so we had to come up with a new plan now levi has his very own tub of beans so that he can haul beans to his little hearts content he loves it sometimes he hauls beans inside and sometimes he hauls beans outside today we were outside i am getting ready for my sister s baby shower this weekend and came up with the brilliant idea that i could cut fabric outside while levi hauled his beans and griffin took a nap multi tasking right my plan worked great i got a whole ten minutes worth of work done pretty soon there was a pair of little dirty hands digging through my fabric you like my hat mommy then he realized that my cutting mat made a pretty good road for his truck and that my basket of fabric was a good place to dump his loads of beans before i knew it he had overtaken my whole work space i pretty much got nothing done but he sure had fun talk about productive not i love this age two year olds are awesome but sometimes it seems impossible to get things done and learning how to teach and discipline in a way that is loving and life giving sheesh that is hard and humbling our pastor is teaching through proverbs this summer his sermon on sunday was wisdom and the family it was such a challenging sermon i have been rereading and praying through some of the verses this week i love this verse in a reverent and worshipful fear of the lord there is strong confidence and his children shall always have a place of refuge proverbs 14 26 amplified bible when we are in love with jesus it permeates our homes i won t even go into the verses about wisdom for wives let s just say i have a lot to work on if you want to listen to the sermon yourself click here for the video the mp3 isn t up yet i just may need to listen to it again too posted by the mcclenahans 11 08 pm 12 comments tuesday july 10 2012 sweet corn it is sweet corn time again in kansas my father in law has the best garden every year we all get together and freeze sweet corn and then he lets us take some home it is so great to have sweet corn in your freezer in the middle of the winter yum my in laws are the hardest working people i know they had gotten up really early to start and by the time the boys and i arrived they had already picked and husked all the corn levi and i got to work he stayed outside and helped my sisters in law wash the corn i went inside and helped my mother in law cut the corn off the cob i think i got the easy job because it was hot outside like i said they are the hard workers judging by how wet levi was when they were done i m not exactly sure how helpful he was but whatever he was doing he was definitely having fun i forgot to take a picture of the piles of corn there were wheelbarrows full after we cut all the corn off the cob we got it ready for freezing go here if you want the recipe the boys and i went home for nap time before all the corn had cooled i think in the end we ended up with 109 quart bags of sweet corn i would say my father in law had a successful harvest ours on the other hand wasn t the best somehow it always seems to work out that way a certain little boy now has a new fave sweet corn he will chew on the cob forever it makes dinner much more relaxing for all of us but watch out if you try to take it away from him he is very protective he doesn t even give up when he is tired he just lays his head right on cob and keeps chewing sweet corn really is that good posted by the mcclenahans 4 23 pm 18 comments the macs about me name the mcclenahans view my complete profile previous posts hopefully not another crop failure colorado or bust hauling beans helping mama sweet corn baby quilt red blue gray 30 day challenge did you make it fourth of july griffin nine months insta update roll your way to the lord archives march 2008 may 2008 june 2008 july 2008 august 2008 september 2008 october 2008 november 2008 december 2008 january 2009 february 2009 march 2009 april 2009 may 2009 june 2009 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