Well, it's been a while. We've been quite busy and I haven't had much downtime. The boys played soccer for a couple of months and didn't like it. They made the commitment, so they finished, but I'm pretty sure neither will ever play soccer again. Soccer was over in mid-May, so we had some downtime between sports and I think that helped us to finish out the last of the year. My oldest finished up 6th grade and my youngest 1st. They won't ever be at the same school again and that makes me sad. :( Reed is now in the youth group at church and I think he's excited about that.
We finished up the house and moved in over Mother's Day weekend. The first night, all we had were beds and the TV (you know, priorities.) :) We had pizza and watched a movie in lawn chairs.
It took a couple of days to get the couches over, so the boys ate breakfast before school in their lawn chairs. While wearing their robes.
Then the rain came. We had a RIDICULOUS amount of rain in May. I think it rained something like 27 days out of the month and it wasn't a soft rain either. We would have full on downpours! The water never came in the house, but was a little to close for comfort. Our tank definitely filled up.
I was glad when it finally quit and dried up because I was scheduled to have my brother & sister-in-laws baby shower here at the first of June. The rain has really messed up the road and Brian had to get quite a few loads of dirt to fix it. They would bring 3 or 4 loads a day and he would get home after work and get on the skid steer and work on smoothing it all out until after dark. He really busted his hiney getting stuff ready for the shower. It was a really pretty shower... too bad I didn't take ANY pictures! :(
So we've been in a little over a month and we love it. They boys love the stairs and Nerf gun wars are a regular occurrence... I find Nerf bullets all over the place. The boys started SEALS practice last week. Reed has moved up in age groups, so his practice is at 7:00 am. So we leave the house at 6:45 and I've been running while he swims. Hudson's practice isn't until 8:45, so Brian brings him to the pool a little later. We leave at 9:45, so that's a full 3 hours at the pool for me and Reed 4 days a week. I can see that wearing thin by the end of the season. I can tell he is growing, because he eats a LOT and there has been a lot of this...
We finished up our church VBS last night, so we are just worn out. I was a group leader and Reed helped out with crafts. It was a long week and we are looking forward to free days next week... with rain/thunderstorms in the forecast, SEALS may get cancelled and we may get to sleep late. :)
We have SEALS until mid-July and then not much planned after that. We have our road trip in August which the boys and I are really looking forward to. We didn't go anywhere last year because of the building of the house, so we are ready for vacation. We will be hitting Hot Springs National Park and Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Hopefully before we leave for our trip Makenzie and Ryleigh (my twin nieces) will be born. Becky is due at the end of August, but I don't see anyway she will make it that long. She is a tiny little woman (about as tall as Reed), and I don't see how those two babies will fit in there very much longer. Aside from that, lots of plans for swimming, snow cones, lazy days of TV and games with some water parks and other fun things thrown in. Yay for summer!
