It’s 60 degrees. The sun is shining. I. Long. For. Summer.

The weather in Iowa has taken some serious getting used to over the last few years. It is unlike anywhere I have ever lived in my 30 years of life! Between tornado sirens, – 40 degree winters, pouring rain that turns your backyard into a lake and floods your basement, humid summers with …. one minute it can be sweltering hot, and the next it may be snowing (totally serious, friends). It was a really harsh winter last year … -42 was what I recorded … when you inhaled, it was as though your lungs were filling with icicles and you froze immediately upon exiting your front door. It took the cars nearly 15 minutes to really get warmed up. The snow caked on so high that we built these awesome forts and a sledding hill in our flat front yard! Heaven, I tell you! I loved every minute of it!

I am a winter girl at heart, but I right now I am longing for the long, lazy days of summer such as these …