Here are some family photos from their trip. I particularly love the ones with Joe and Priscilla meeting Summer.
Great Grandma Priscilla
Great Grandpa Joe
JD, Summer, Matt
Hi Cousin!
Blizzard (5 mos) Summer (11 mos)
7.31.2017
Family
In July my nephew Matt, his wife Shelby, and their daughter, Summer made a circuitous trip around the Midwest to visit family. They started off in Minnesota visiting Shelby's family and celebrating Summer's first birthday then traveled to Kansas. In northeast Kansas they visited Matt's grandparents, Joe and Priscilla, his uncle and aunt, Jim and Gretchen. They then traveled down to Manhattan KS to visit JD, Janel, and Blizzard before returning home. Whew...
Here are some family photos from their trip. I particularly love the ones with Joe and Priscilla meeting Summer.
Here are some family photos from their trip. I particularly love the ones with Joe and Priscilla meeting Summer.
7.30.2017
7.19.2017
Official Six Month Photo
Our official six month photo was taken a few weeks early because we were together... in person... face to face.
We met JD and Janel and her family in Colorado over July 4th weekend. It was beautiful and best of all I got to take another official monthly photo in person with Blizzard.
He is such a sweetie pie, and although I'm thankful that we get to Skype with him every weekend, it was a thrill to be with him and hold him.
We love you Blizzard!!
We met JD and Janel and her family in Colorado over July 4th weekend. It was beautiful and best of all I got to take another official monthly photo in person with Blizzard.
He is such a sweetie pie, and although I'm thankful that we get to Skype with him every weekend, it was a thrill to be with him and hold him.
We love you Blizzard!!
7.16.2017
7.10.2017
It WAS a Dry Heat...
A few weeks ago all of our out of town friends and family were aghast at the high temps we were experiencing. They oohed and aahed over the 120 high we had and wondered how we could survive it.
Yes, it was hot (in Phoenix the word "hot" does not appear in the forecast until it's over 110 degrees), but when we say it's a dry heat it really is a dry heat. During the hottest week in June when temps climb to the 115+ range, the dew point is often in the negative digits. So although you're hot, you're not dripping with sweat.
Then the wind shifts and the Monsoon begins and everything changes. The dew points shoot up to the 50s and 60s, the temps drop to the low to mid 100s and it is miserable. You sweat. Every drink you drink sweats. The air feels thick and very hot. It is no longer a dry heat.
Even so, I live for Monsoon season. The clouds build up in the mountains to the North, East and South of us. They are beautiful. The chance of rain is in the forecast and I hope that some rain will fall before we go to bed. (When I first moved to Phoenix, monsoon storms typically hit at 5 - 7 pm. Now that there is so much more concrete, they rarely hit until after 10 pm.) If we're lucky enough to receive a rain shower, we run outside and stand in it. At least until the lightning gets too scary.
The rest of the country is used to being outside in the Summer months, but here we hibernate in the summer, unless you're lucky enough to have access to a swimming pool. The trade off is that we're outside for the Fall, Winter, and Spring months. And we rarely have to have a Plan B for outside activities because it rarely rains during those months.
We were on vacation in Colorado last week and someone asked us how long does the rain last in a Monsoon storm? About 10-20 minutes we replied. From the look on their face, I know they couldn't comprehend that kind of weather. But it's what we're used to and what I anticipate very summer.
Yes, it was hot (in Phoenix the word "hot" does not appear in the forecast until it's over 110 degrees), but when we say it's a dry heat it really is a dry heat. During the hottest week in June when temps climb to the 115+ range, the dew point is often in the negative digits. So although you're hot, you're not dripping with sweat.
Then the wind shifts and the Monsoon begins and everything changes. The dew points shoot up to the 50s and 60s, the temps drop to the low to mid 100s and it is miserable. You sweat. Every drink you drink sweats. The air feels thick and very hot. It is no longer a dry heat.
Even so, I live for Monsoon season. The clouds build up in the mountains to the North, East and South of us. They are beautiful. The chance of rain is in the forecast and I hope that some rain will fall before we go to bed. (When I first moved to Phoenix, monsoon storms typically hit at 5 - 7 pm. Now that there is so much more concrete, they rarely hit until after 10 pm.) If we're lucky enough to receive a rain shower, we run outside and stand in it. At least until the lightning gets too scary.
The rest of the country is used to being outside in the Summer months, but here we hibernate in the summer, unless you're lucky enough to have access to a swimming pool. The trade off is that we're outside for the Fall, Winter, and Spring months. And we rarely have to have a Plan B for outside activities because it rarely rains during those months.
We were on vacation in Colorado last week and someone asked us how long does the rain last in a Monsoon storm? About 10-20 minutes we replied. From the look on their face, I know they couldn't comprehend that kind of weather. But it's what we're used to and what I anticipate very summer.
A dust storm blowing into Phoenix from the South during Monsoon.
7.09.2017
7.04.2017
7.02.2017
7.01.2017
Christmas in July
If you haven't already begun, July is a great time to start preparing for a stress-free Christmas season. Check out my Christmas blog for some holiday fun in the middle of the summer. Hope to see you there!
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