Yummy Colorful Lunch

Today's Lunch

Grilled Cheese Sandwich on homemade bread

Corn on the Cob

Green Beans

Beets

(the veggies were all picked this morning)

We added some Bread and Butter pickles that we made on Tuesday.

Isn't summer beautiful!

Joe's New Balance Outlet

If you are ever in the market for New Balance shoes or clothing, I highly suggest Joe's New Balance Outlet. They are located in Earth City, Missouri which means that shipping via UPS is awesome. I placed an order yesterday afternoon and it is "out for delivery" as of 4am this morning...can't beat next day delivery, especially when I got free shipping.

Previously when I ordered from them, one of the pairs of shoes did not fit perfectly. I was not planning to send them back, but they had sent a follow-up e-mail so I told them that they weren't so great. They promptly sent a mailing label to me and gave me a complete refund without any questions.

Our 50 wonderful states

The distribution of states...I was wrong about only 1 from California, we have three.

We checked our map by sorting all of the cards by state. These are our 51 piles.

I guess that we should have tried to get Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands as well to include our territories!

We have all 50!

The shout rang from the boy getting the mail today, "We got number 50!"

Vermont arrived in the mail today. Michigan came in the mail late last week to round out our 50 states and the District of Columbia. We even had people excited enough about our project to even send from a few other countries!

Thank you to everyone who contributed to our project. We definitely have learned more about our country than we did before. There's even a Rolla, North Dakota! I realized how many wonderful friends and family I have that are willing to hunt for a post card to send to us and how stretched across the country that you are all! For those who I was so bold as to ask for a specific state, thank you for obliging!

Somewhere around the beginning of June, the boys stopped being interested in the record keeping of how many we received in a day and if we knew the person or now so we just marked our map. This afternoon I think that we'll check it to see if we have all our hash marks on there. As of right now, the most that we received from any one state is 4. Those states that we received four from were Montana, Hawaii (which was a late showing), Texas, Virginia and Washington, D.C. For being a very populous state, we only received one card from California! We did get quite a few from people we don't know which I think is fun!

Thanks again for helping us with our project. The boys loved getting mail. Next year we will be doing the first year of a two year study of world history who knows what I'll ask of you for that...pictures of people in togas?