June busy-ness and some May madness

Hello again from the Hay family!
June has been another busy month for us.  We started out the month with a trip to LaPorte to visit with Ed's family.  We had a great time visiting with all of his family, and are looking forward to (hopefully) another trip up sometime in July.
Jeanette has been busy helping plan relief society activities for church, making a page for a group- made quiet book for the kiddos, and tending to the yard and our new garden.
Oh yea!  At the end of May, we put in a lot of man hours to complete our first vegetable garden in our new home!  We decided to go with raised garden beds, which required us to smooth out a section of yard with some (free!!) topsoil we got off craigslist (yea craigslist!).  We wanted to do a raised bed with some really cool interlocking border stones we had found at lowes.  But when we went to pick them up, they were completely out!  After hunting down the area manager, we found out that they had stoped making them because the stones were breaking at the intersecting point, and that it would be another 2-3 weeks before they would get anymore.  We had already put off getting this garden put together (long story there), and we didn't want to waste any more time.  So, we decided to go with wooden raised beds.  We drew out the plans, got the wood, and in less than 24 hours time, had three 12x4 ft beds and 2 4x4 ft beds.  We later added a third 4x4 bed to even things out.  That, believe it or not, was the easy part.  Shoveling, and moving the 5 cubic yards of dirt from the driveway to the beds was the hardest part.   Needless to say, by the time it was all said and done, it took about a week of being outside for most of the day for us to complete our beautiful raised beds:

So we now have 16 tomato plants, several zucchini, cucumber, butternut squash, yellow squash, watermelon, cantaloupe, corn, green bean, pea, carrot, green, yellow, and red bell pepper, jalapeno, and strawberry plants.  It's a few weeks behind schedule, but we are looking forward to a fruitful harvest.  JD loves to help mommy by grabbing handfuls of dirt and dropping them wherever he chooses.  The little turkey...

The Schafer Gang

Fathers day weekend we took our annual trip down to Spring Mill State park for our family reunion with Jeanette's Dad's side of her family.  We had a blast, as usual.  We are getting to be pros at camping in a tent with little ones.  Sure, we're completely exhausted by the end of it all, but that's just cause JD loves to do exactly what we tell him not to... like run towards and down the road.  Again... he's a little turkey!

The Schafer/McNeely Siblings

Little goober with ketchup on his nose

I'm not doing anything, Momma!  Just eating my cupcake!

And this is what happens when you let go of the little man while trying to get pjs on him!

Speakin of the little turkey, last month he had surgery to repair an inguinal hernia. He was a champ!  We had a great surgeon, and 24 hours after his surgery, you would never have guessed that he just had surgery.  He was pretty sleepy afterwards, and didn't want to leave momma's arms, but the next day- forget it!  Back to running around and being the crazy kid that he is!  He had his surgery done at IU Health Riley, and I can't begin to tell you how grateful I am to live so close to the best pediatric hospital in the state.  Fantastic employees- from the receptionist to the very last nurse, all were great!  AIDET in action! (All my IU Health buddies will get this!)  Seriously, as a health professional, Jeanette knows that what we are taught to do as health professionals doesn't always happen.  But everyone in the outpatient surgery department at Riley puts what they are taught into action!
So minus his little scar, little man is back in action!

I guess I didn't write about our month of May- I'm a little scatter-brained today!
Oh yea, we made a lot of trips to the airport (Which both kids love- they both get excited when they see an airplane in the sky- which is often at our house since we are so close to the airport).  We sadly had to take Corban (Jeanette's brother) to the airport so he could move out to Utah :-( We took Joel and Chelsie (Jeanette's brother and girlfriend)  to the airport so they could visit Hawaii, and then we picked them up with they got back.  And then we took Jeanette's Dad to the airport so he could visit Casey (Jeanette's sister), Chris (Jeanette's brother-in law), Corban, and her new neice Ana for Ana's blessing.  Lots of airport visits, but like I said, we like going to the airport.

TRIED to get a good smile from her...

And this is what happens. 

Lilly also graduated from her first semester of Preschool!  She did amazing; At first I think we were all concerned, because she just wasn't catching on to the whole alaphabet thing.  Then one day, BAM!  Little priss just starts naming all the letters off one by one.  She has done awesome with Dawn, her teacher.  Thankfully Dawn understands goofy, talkative little class clowns... and that is Lilly to a T!!!

With Dawn, at their parent program

I'm sure we've done more- but that's a lot to remember!

Not too many plans for the rest of our month- Next month is looking to be busy with a 4th of July party, Lilly visiting Mimi (Ed's Mom) for a week, the start of Lilly's dance classes, swim lessons for the kiddos and who knows what else will come up!! But we are looking forward to it all!!

Until next time!  Love and hugs to you all!