Just a heads up! The release of the June flexi was delayed, but it is coming just in time for the first day of summer! Lilla Rose is throwing a party! Not only is the June flexi going to show up, but the July flexi-of-the-month is debuting as well. Woo-hoo!

To make this summer party even better, Lilla Rose is offering 10% off of everything AND free shipping on orders over $30~this Friday and Saturday only.

What a great way to celebrate!

We will get to meet the June and July flexis on Friday.

June is called the Sparkling Summer Solstice and so far we don’t know the official name for the July flexi. I’m looking forward to seeing the designs!

You can find my Lilla Rose facebook page here if you want to keep tabs on Lilla Rose! There are sizing and styling videos here. You can find my Lilla Rose site here and click through the Shop Now button to browse all the flexi styles and sizes.

If you are a new customer and you purchase three items, I will glady offer you a free fourth item of your choice. {up to a $16 value} Email me {you can use the @ pennant button at the top of this page} or message me on my Lilla Rose fb page and we will work out the details. Don’t include your fourth item in your order. It will be sent to you separately.

Free shipping, 10% off, and a fourth item for free makes Friday or Saturday a great time to try out Lilla Rose and the flexi you’ve been eyeing!

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If you were here we could….

sit on the front porch and drink iced tea or lemonade if there was some lemonade made and if my small son hadn’t drunk it all. We could….

look at the wheat and chat about this and that and catch up on things that you miss out on and miss telling each other in phone calls and texts and e-mails. Real life chatting is more fun, even though I’m glad for media. We could laugh and we would remember other trips and things we did. We would wonder how my children have grown so much.

If you were here I would show you…

my hanging pots and flowers. We would walk around outside and show you…

the kittens! They are growing quickly and are so cute and playful.

And, of course, Cooper. He would be glad to jump on you. How can cute and annoying be so wrapped up together?

If you were here, I would show you my roses…

We would walk out to the garden….

and if you were lucky, you MIGHT….

see a monkey!!!

We could go check irrigation systems, OR just let my farmer man have that job.

We would go eat at the south Mexican restaurant and we would make Baked Smores. We would walk over to the farm and look at the place our old house used to be and talk about how hot or cold it was and reminisce about the way our place looked when we moved there. We would go over to Jordan’s and look at his yard and the work he’s been doing and talk about his fence. We would talk about your front porch and look at the pictures you bring of it and say that we need to come out there. We would hear news about the girls and Jill and Travis and we would say we miss them. We would get together with friends and laugh and laugh. We would eat snacks and be glad we were together. We would cook in my kitchen and gather around our kitchen table. We would show you Lego creations and knitting and projects. We would play games and have ice cream.

Dear Mom and Dad~If you were here we would do these things!

But until then, we will be thankful that we are family and that we have family and that we can travel and that we do get to travel and we can see each other and we have e-mail and blogs and photos and phones. We will be thankful!

Love you, Mom and Dad!

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Hello to summer weather and temperatures arriving! It was high 90′s and even 101 last week. Hello to early morning walks and to watering and weeding. Hello to planting some more sweet corn and hello to mowing. Hello to summertime activities and fun!

Hello to wheat that’s turning golden and hello to a Sunday harvest drive down south. There were quite a few combines starting to cut. We saw several custom cutter crews. The trucks and grain carts looked like they were not overly busy or rushed, indicating what we’ve been thinking~this year is probably not going to be any bushel record-breaking year in this area. We’ve had lots of dry weather, but have been thankful for all the moisture we have received.

Hello to lots of work on irrigation systems this week. Hello to me and my kiddos lending a hand to our farmer daddy and helping put sprinklers on one of the systems. Hello to finishing pulling some rye.

Hello go-cart acting up and pulling it home with the four-wheeler. Hello to outside play and water play! Hello to messing around with our pop-up pool. I didn’t think we were even going to get it up, but we kept messing and taping the ring and it is up, so maybe the kiddos will get a few more hours of fun out of it.

 Hello to cooking up rhubarb and hello to sneaking in a couple of naps. Hello to phone calls and planning a lunch and hello to a big grocery shopping trip. Hello to starting the Bible study, Gideon! Hello to cleaning~doctor’s office and our house! Hello to going swimming with friends. Hello to Father’s Day and rejoicing in the daddy we have. Hello to reading books and hello to this week! It’s going to be busy!

Blessings on your week!

Linking up:

Lisa Leonard

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I think the rhubarb is so pretty!

All chopped, combined and ready to cook!

Pretty, pretty, rhubarb jello!

My daughter loves this stuff too. She seems to have several of the same tastebuds as her father when it comes to certain foods!

My family really didn’t have rhubarb when I was growing up. At least I don’t remember it. I probably would’ve turned my nose up at it anyway. I was pretty picky and just the sound of some things weren’t appealing to me. You never know till you try something! I’ve had things that were surprisingly good and others not so much!

Do you have a favorite rhubarb recipe? Do tell!

Linking up~

Melt in Your Mouth Monday

Little House Living

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It is busy and lazy all mixed together in a colorful blend.

Summertime brings wheat harvest time upon us and our busiest couple of weeks. There is always something to be done anytime of year, but harvest brings its own sense of urgency and pressure. When the wheat is ripe we want to get it in the bin!

I’ve been thinking about some of the things my kids do in the summertime. Some of the activities we also do in the winter, but summer time brings more time and fresh inspiration.

1. Audiobooks

When it’s hot outside and no one wants to be out, audiobooks make a great accompaniment to whatever activity is happening. My kids listen to audiobooks a lot. My son does a lot of Lego building and he almost always has an audiobook playing too.

If your kiddos are young, I say start your audiobook collection now! I’ve loved having them for my kiddos. Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Adventures in Odyssey, Airship Andy….  The library is a great option for audiobooks too. We’ve enjoyed several from ours. My kids have also listened to Adventures in Odyssey, online. I think there are other sites offering online listening options also. CD’s have been the easiest for us because my kiddos have a cd player handy and it just works easier and more quickly than going online. However, audiobooks can get pricey, so online options are certainly great.

2. Bubbles and Playdough.

If you have a few extra $, bubbles and playdough are fun outdoor summertime activities. My kiddos are growing out of this somewhat, but they did just have our playdough stuff out the beginning of the week. They’ve had summertime playdough fun ever since they were very young. I’ve never loved playdough INSIDE my house. But outside, it rocks! Besides it’s always more exciting to play with something that you haven’t played with for a long time.

3. Sprinklers and Pools and Water

What’s more fun when it is 100 degrees than some good ole water play? Once again, every summer since my kiddos were very young, they’ve played in the water. My son used to like to play with a hose and pretend he was an irrigation system. Great fun, that, standing in the yard slowly squirting a hose around in a circle. Plus, watering the grass. Or in our case, probably more weeds than grass.

We’ve had small wading pools, little bit bigger wading pools, cow tank, and finally one of those blue pop-up pools that you see everywhere. We’ve used it for five years and it is quite on its last leg. Not sure it is going to make it up this year to our kiddos disappointment. I will miss it too. I enjoy water and enjoyed getting in it with them. I won’t miss the taking-care-of-it part so much, though it’s not that hard.

My kiddos have also enjoyed playing in sprinklers. Not as good as a pool, but so intriguing to run though water spraying and arching into the air or to try to sit on the sprinkler or to get a drink from it.

4. Magazines and Books

While my kiddos aren’t bookworms compared to some, they do enjoy reading. My daughter more than my son at this point, although he enjoys books once he gets going on one. My mother-in-law has given them subscriptions to Highlights, Puzzlemania, and Which Way USA, and they not only enjoy reading the magazines and doing the activities, but they like getting mail. When they were very small they had a subscription to Wild Animal Baby and then got Ranger Rick for a while when they were older. Magazine subscriptions are such a fun gift idea for kids. I like to keep some of the Puzzlemanias in the car and I like to take them along when we are going to a restaurant or somewhere that involves some sitting and waiting.

5.Games and Puzzles

Summertime is a great time to pull out games and puzzles that haven’t been played or put together for a while. We do these activities in the wintertime too, but with schoolwork to do, the day moves right along and time just flows differently.

6. Tucked-Away Toys

I find my kiddos digging out toys that haven’t been out for a while and setting them up. They just really do have more time for this kind of thing with the schoolbooks tucked away on the shelf.

7. Movies and Websites

While we don’t have television, we do watch movies occasionally. Once again, while a movie is a fun wintertime evening thing, it can also be a really fun summertime thing. Sometimes it’s so hot that watching a movie INSIDE, in the afternoon or evening, is one of the coolest things to do. My kiddos also spend time now and then on Lego.com or American Girl checking out all the “stuff” or playing games.

8. Outside Play

During the morning or evening, or on the occasional cooler day, my kiddos like to ride scooters or bikes or build a fort or jump on the trampoline. They spend time playing with their kittens and they have a tire swing they swing on and perform acrobatics on and climb to the top of the rope on. This summer they’ve played croquet some and they play softball or soccer or basketball sometimes. They throw a football and play gymnastics. My son still digs around in the sandbox sometimes; another thing they are outgrowing. When they were younger, they spent a good bit of time on our swingset. It was just a basic frame with two swings, but they enjoyed it.

 I’ve never loved my kiddos to think they’re bored or have nothing to do. They really have always been pretty good at keeping busy and not complaining that “they’re bored.” Mom is always glad to offer extra chores to anyone who needs something to do. They are truly blessed with many activities and have always had good places to play outside. Therefore they really have no option to claim boredom. I know there are families and children who don’t have much space for outside play and some don’t have a lot of extra inside space either. It can all certainly make a difference.

So, these are a few of our activities. Tell me~What do your kiddos like to do in the summertime?

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While we were there for our quick weekend visit, they took us for a quick visit to the Ag Hall of Fame Museum, close to Kansas City. It was pretty cool and had several hands-on activities that our kiddos enjoyed. We could’ve spent more time than we did, but we got to see almost all of it and it was closing time and we needed to think about getting back anyway.

So, here’s a slew of pictures that I uploaded for this post. I start going through pictures and choosing this one and this one and that one is fun and how about this one…

We had fun!!!

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