Meanwhile..

Took this crew to pick sweetcorn.  A LOT of sweet corn.

We picked all the sweet corn for the first ever Boos family "reunion"...a gathering of my grandparents' kids and grandkids.  It's too hard for us all to get together at Christmastime anymore, so how about a little "Christmas in July"?

It was complete with competitive games, and water balloons.  And poor Alexis took a water balloon over the head and got drenched...ironically thrown by her own dad...

Later that week we ventured to Hiawatha to swim at Patsy's pool while Katie was in town.  Alexis joined us too--but she didn't come for the after party at McDonalds.  Can't say I blame her...

We got a chance to watch baby Max for part of a day...he is soooooo sweet....even loved his nap on the princess couch.  He seemed to just hang out and watch the kids play!

And we all had to take a turn holding him....

When the sweet corn was ready...it was time to pick it and freeze it! I asked Jace to shuck 20 ears while I was mowing the yard, and he set up shop and just kept going and going!  What a worker!

Working on catching some fish to stock the new farm pond...spent a HOT afternoon fishing and caught about 50 blue gill I think...Connor wasn't interested, which was fine with me since she wanted to be close to the water, and Jace is all about fishing...he baits his own hook and tries to take his own fish off.

Unfortunately, it was super hot, and we stopped to talk to Grables when we left the pond...so a lot of the fish were dead by the time we threw them in the pond...

Connor doing a little reading...of American Hunter...

An intense after supper puzzle...

I'm not sure how she got ahold of this big drink in the car...but not surprised either..

And Jace getting some driving lessons while Jed does a yield check...