This week was HOT. Upper 90s-101. It was too hot to do anything. On Friday, we went to the library, the playground that is outside of the library, out to lunch and then hung out inside until it was time for neighborhood happy hour. On Fridays, people gather outside of one of our neighbor’s house and hang out, have drinks and catch up. We have the most friendly, best neighborhood of all time. We ate dinner in the front yard and ended up staying outside until nearly dark.
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Saturday Xander and I went to my mom’s house to water her plants while she was in Texas, and then we had family movie night.
On Wednesday evening, there was a short rain storm that ended in our power going out! I felt like I was at camp. Even once the rain stopped, the power stayed off. Nate and I put the boys to bed around 8 and then took a bottle of wine out to our front sidewalk and hung out with about 15 neighbors until it was dark, at which point, we went to bed (power still off!). The power came back on around 11:15.
This Friday, we were back outside for happy hour- this time with root beer floats. I didn’t take any pictures, but we had a huge crowd outside and it was so fun. The boys (with their buddy) were determined to climb a tree and worked hard to problem solve for quite a long time. They didn’t make it up the tree, but they problem solved, communicated, and were very creative, so I think it was a good use of time.
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