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Turns out that April and May were the driest on record here for northern Colorado… We’re praying that the pattern doesn’t hold as we move into summer. It’s been pretty darn warm so far.

The boys are very excited to be done with school, on to typical summer activities: jobs in the morning, spend the afternoon at the swimming pool. Oh, and build traps and whatnot to catch snakes, rabbits, or anything else they can dream of in between.

Swim team practice starts tomorrow for Caleb, but first he had to wrap up the soccer season with the city tournament. Caleb’s team was undefeated during the season, and they won the tournament as well. The best part was that Caleb’s good buddy, Joseph, scored his first and only goal of the season with about 30 seconds left in the championship game to give them the win, 2-1. Actually, I guess the best part really was watching the parents after Joseph’s goal.

Kim is generally feeling much better, though very exhausted. The sun takes a heavy toll on her, but all Alec has graduated to the big pool now, so she get’s to be right out there with him every afternoon. The boys ask for a daily update on the size of her tummy — “let’s measure it!” — We’re all excited about what’s coming, but she has to make it through the summer first.

90-plus-degree days like we’ve had this weekend make her grateful that we’re not in / going to Israel — in case anyone hadn’t heard, the trip is off. There are definitely mixed emotions about not going, but we are certain that things will work out as they are supposed to. I hope to go out for a week or two myself towards the end of summer.

The other exciting event of the week was buying a new car. I took my old blue car in for a simple oil change, but the mechanic said it would basically do more harm than good — we’ve been keeping that car limping along for a few years now, but it finally reached the end. I was surprised I was actually able to get some (small amount of) money for it on trade-in. It will be good to have a reliable car again.

Image gallery for this week.

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