Random photos because why not?

50-CENT PEPSI MACHINE SIGHTING!!!!

I was so excited!! I only wish I had 50 cents to actually buy one (I can only assume they stock it with present-day pop lol).

I would DEFINITELY have one of these at my house if I could get my hands on one. I'd make the kids buy their own pop. Hey ~ 50 cents is a lot cheaper than the $1.75 you'd pay at the other pop machines out here!
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Meet our watermelon:

I don't know if you can tell from the picture, but it's growing ON OUR FENCE. It's about a foot off the ground!!! We expect that it will eventually get too big/heavy and fall down (hopefully it won't bust when that happens) but for now it's very entertaining to see it growing up in the air.

Here's a random really cool flower we found while walking around looking for Pokemon. (Yeah, we're PoGo'ers) I took the picture for my sister Jen. She's a bit of a flower lover.

Hmmm, let's see....a couple more sky photos?? I'm famous for 'em (in my mind, anyway ha ha).

My pretty Illinois!


So my husband bought me this cool little metal model thing. I hadn't done a model since I was about 14 and FAILED MISERABLY at building a model, so I wasn't real keen on attempting one again, but this is different because it's METAL. So I bought a couple little tools (roundabouts a dollar at Harbor Freight) and got it done in about an hour. Here it is:

Hooray! It's a tiny Enterprise from the original Star Trek! It's funny cuz that model I failed epically at was also an Enterprise set. It's so shiny!!

I liked it so much that my husband bought me another metal model, but this one looks WAY more difficult. It's a carousel. We will see how I do, I guess.

And last but not least: I got one good picture of a perfect peach from our peach tree before the peaches suddenly became overripe and attracted every bee, wasp, fly and butterfly into my yard. I just let them have what was left of the peaches.

[hand model thanks to Trena]


 I tried to make a peach pie but I did something wrong because it was a bit liquid-y. Still, it tasted good, so I may tweak the recipe I have and see if I can do it better next year.

Love you guys!
~AmyG