4th of July

I am here in Idaho while Ryan is at home working. I came to spend some time with my family, some whom I haven't seen in about two years. The kids have had an amazing time playing with cousins and just getting dirty. Ayden and Meysa come inside after playing and you would have thought that they had just layed down and wharlered in the dirt. They have been helping feed the chickens and gathering the eggs, which they find so fun. It has been over 100 degrees here, so they have lived in the sprinkler and slip and slide. I have been having fun picking apricots and making fruit leather and also drying some. I got a 28lb. bucket of strawberries today and enjoyed putting those up too. My mom, sisters, and sister-in-laws and I have been having a great time finding fun fabrics and making the best aprons. Ryan is working hard. Almost done with his first week. We kind of had a funny thing that happened the other day. I called the tri-care appointment number to schedual some doctors appointments (for Ayden, Lauryn and I). I was schedualing my yearly exam with the OB/Gyn clinic (which Ryan happens to be working this month) and wanted to schedual it for July. The nice lady found a day that would work for me and said, "I have a 10:30 appt. with a Dr. Ryan Heitmann on July 25th." It took me a few seconds to realize that she was trying to schedual me with my own husband to do my yearly exam. Kind of chuckling I told her that that was my husband and she replied, "so I guess you wouldn't want to see him, huh?" When I told Ryan this later that night, he said "thanks for the vote of confidence, my own wife won't even come to see me." Things are moving right along, it is hard to think that we are already into July. It seems like just yesterday that we were counting down the days till graduation.