Long Time

I cannot believe it has been a few weeks since I have posted anything. I knew I had been busy, but did not realize it had been so long. We have had friends in town, the end of the school year and now violin camp on top of a very busy work schedule. Oh, and a few holidays and birthday's, and asthma flare ups. Good times, good times.

Violin camp has been an experience. Some of these young kids have phenomenal talent and really are wonderful musicians. But, instead of really enjoying all the music and different classes, I have been the bathroom runner for the younger kids. Out of 16 kids, I am the only mom that has stayed the whole day with my child. Which means when a child has to use the restroom, I get that fabulous chore since the teacher cannot stop teaching and the classes are in an old high school and they don't want kids getting lost.

But why should I be surprised that all the difficult, and poorly behaved kids parents drop and run??? They are obviously smarter then I.

I am smiling on the inside though, because there is a young boy there who I believe has Asperger's and is just cute as can be. I swear I am magnetically attracted to these kids. I can find them right off and I love watching and interacting with them. They truly are a gift to this world if people will take a minute, and have patience to understand them.

A Fish, A Fish!

So, in the 12+ years I have known my husband, I have never known him to actually catch a fish. He of course says he has caught hundreds of fish, with the number of fish and the size of the fish growing exponentially with each recall.

But tonight........he actually caught a fish, and I saw it with my own eyes and had to document this occasion.

Pulling the cat fish out

The yucky part, taking the hook out

His cat fish catch

So proud

The Season of Fun!

The season of fun has begun! Because.......they are back!! Our friends that live across the country are back for a month. Carson has his best buddy back, Adeline has her crafty friend back, and of course, I have my friend back. We have had food a plenty, and snow cones by the pool. Doesn't get much better then that!!!

The boys ended up with pirate swim trunks, not even planned

Huge, huge, huge marsh mellows to roast

Preschool Graduation

It was a big day at our house on Friday. Adeline "graduated" from preschool! She was so excited, until she tried on the gown and said that it was hot and itchy. That kind of ruined the excitement of the day. Cute, though, none the less.

Adeline in the middle of two friends

Singing away

Graduation Diploma

Walking up

Receiving her diploma

Preschool has consumed two years of our lives. Adeline has loved every minute of it and she had wonderful teachers. It will be hard to say who ends up missing preschool more, me or Adeline.

Besides coffee and Diet Coke, my favorite thing in life is taking pictures of my children. Both are so photogenic with their big blue eyes, and are so patient with me when I have a camera in their face all the time.

Here are a few pictures of Adeline at a birthday party at the splash park.

Feeding the Fish

We decided to head out and feed the fish today. It was beautiful weather, which won't last long. We went to a local pond but not much action there, so we decided to head out to the lake and feed the monstrous fish.

They could suck the skin right off your hand

To Big

O.K. dude. You are almost 8. Although small for your age, I think when it takes this much work to get out of the car shopping cart you are just too darn big!