Never Dull

There's usually some sort of excitement going on at the McDonald house. This excitement was caused by my great idea. The kids want ice cream every day (it's genetic, I think) so I decided if we were going to have ice cream, we should get some exercise too. The kids each invited a friend and I pulled Emma in the bike trailer. Our neighbor told us a bike trail to take to get downtown Oswego. We got a little lost on the trail and I ended up using the map from my phone to get us there. It took us almost an hour to get to the ice cream place that is proably 5 miles away. The kids were worn out but very happy to get ice cream. Cade got quite messy because the ice cream melted so quickly because it was so hot outside.

Cade with his friend, Sam.

Maddi with her friend, Anna Marie. The way home from ice cream is when it got exciting. Cade crashed his bike and not only was his lip busted and bleeding, his knee and elbow were scraped and his finger got pinched in the brake. Even worse was that his back brake slid off and was stuck on the rim and he couldn't ride his bike because the back wheel wouldn't move. I wasn't sure how we would get home but an angel came and offered to help us. He is a bike rider and was able to fix Cade's brake and then we were on the road home. All was well until Maddi decided her bike seat was too uncomfortable and was hurting her back. She got off her bike and was walking. It would have taken us forever to walk and thankfully Anna Marie agreed to switch bikes with Maddi. Eventually we got back home and I realized my idea to get the kids to exercise for sweets was a FAIL! We went to the pool to cool off and ordered pizza for dinner. The funny part was when Cade's friend realized we were walking to the pool. He didn't realize we live around the corner from the pool. I don't think he was up for another adventure!

In other exciting news, a storm ripped through here and it made a mess of our yard with shattered glass from our patio table.

This is our table after the fact. Our trampoline net was ripped in half. Siding was ripped off our house in the same spot that the blizzard ripped siding off last year.

Our umbrella was not only ripped off, but it was carried to the front yard and was wrapped around the tree in our front yard. That makes me think we had a microburst or something more than just high winds. Our neighbor accross the street also had siding ripped from their house. I guess we are lucky that's all the damage we had and we were all safe.

This makes me laugh, Emalyn loves to help Daddy and this was her get up the other day as she followed Brett around watering the grass and cleaning up the yard. She had her puppy, her bag with another puppy and food inside and of course her leotard and fancy shoes.