You know you live in a small town when...

You know you live in a small (wonderful) town, when...
the mailman (regie)sees one of the older patrons drive up on his golf cart and then Reggie meets him on the sidewalk with his mail.

way to go reggie

FOOD!!!!

I have experienced two wonderful new foods while in South Dakota and want to share them with you:

Burrito Smores:
Small tortillas
Peanut butter I used creamy, but I think crunchy would be good too.
Mini Marshmellows
Chocolate Chips/ m&m/s work too.
coals

spread some p.b. on the smore- down the middle or half or cover the whole thing, how much p.b. do you like. sprinkle on a hand ful of marshmellows then some choc.
wrap up like a burrito and then wrap in foil. place on coals for 2-3 minutes(not too long or it will burn). Open and eat.

Walking Tacos.: I found this one at the ball park
scissors
A snack size bag of chips, the ball park uses nacho dorritos, at home we also use cool ranch dorritos or fritos.
Taco meat
Cheese
Lettuce
Tomato
Sour Cream
salsa

In your hand smush the chips so that it feels like more bite size bits, turn on side and cut off the side 1/4" of bag, add meat cheese and what ever other toppings you like. serve with a fork. I think an adult serving is two. but this is really good.

propane tank

We have a propane tank in our backyard that holds our propane that heats our house in the winter. One day I saw a bird go in the little hole and after a while it came back out I went over and found a birds nest.

Jims Cake

Jim decorated his birthday cake. And wanted to share it with you.

Softball

Softball

Katie and Janet are playing softball here in Emery. They are doing very good and getting better. Katie likes to take her PINK bat to the games to use. "Power in Pink". Poppie and Nana got to gowith us to two of their games, which was fun.

At the tournament for their age group, they won first place.

Happy birthday Jim!!!!

Jim turned 15 years old today!! he planned for this very carefully, asking to not have to do any chores on his birthday, He wanted to not have dishes or laundry today.
I also gave him extra computer time. He enjoyed finding b-day songs on you-tube, especially weird al's happy birthday. He learned that he shares his birthday with the infamous Schlock, of Schlock Mercenary infame. (though Schlock is only 8 to Jims 15).

Here comes summer

Jim started his Drivers Ed. Driving today. He will go every day this week and then we can take him into the DMV and let him take his test. He would like to get his provisional license before his b-day.

Echo is working hard on her Faith project for YW.

Carie has started babysitting.

Katie and Janet are doing Softball with their first game tonight.

Mikey and Danny are busy playing and being little boys.

Tom and I are busy with school and work. And parenting 7 kids.

Love you all.
Lillie