Where did May go??

Wow, you hit a deer and the month just flies by! I didn't blog for a whole month! Yikes! I have had more than one person ask me if I had stopped blogging and if everything was ok since I hadn't posted in so long. May was just a crazy month. The kids had their end of the year parties and we started summer off with a bang! We went to a rodeo, courtesy of my moms work, which was awesome. The kids had a blast and didn't go to bed til 11. Then we went to a hot air balloon lift off which was really cool and again late to bed. We had a bunch of friends over for dinner and smores since Shawn built a fire pit in the backyard - again late to bed...do you see a pattern?? We went to a T-Bones game with some friends (need I say late to bed?). We went on a huge camping adventure - I like to call it Camp Chaos - with 30 of our closest friends. SO fun. We love to camp and the kids think it's about the coolest thing in the world. Spent a whole day at the beach while camping which is always the kids favorite. And it's now gotten to where Shawn and I can enjoy some time together while the kids play and we don't have to chase anyone (of course, this is only because we left Lucas with my parents and Shawn's parents). We have really been enjoying the lazy mornings of staying in pjs and sleeping in. Yes, I said sleeping in. The kids have decided sleep isn't so bad this summer and have gotten a bit lazy which I have thoroughly enjoyed. We started Bible School today - Austin and Ashlyn both get to go and they loved it. Then next week starts 2 weeks of swim lessons -yay! So, there is a reason I haven't blogged - I'm exhausted by the end of the night and don't even have the energy to type! I absolutely love summer - the weather has been great, my garden is starting to grow, my herbs are going crazy - yipee! I also starting doing the CSA program at Hen House which is where you pick up fresh food from local farmers once a week. It's awesome. You never know what you are getting, but you get some great food and it makes you try new things which I enjoy. The kids love it. They think it is so cool to get our "farmer food". Of course, they thought we were going to get food from Papa Turner, I had to explain it was from all different farmers - too cute. On a similar note - Shawn recently built us a compost in our yard and I love it. It's amazing how much stuff can go in there that you would normally throw away. The kids take a bowl of stuff out from the kitchen everyday. And shawn puts in grass about once a week. Very cool.


Here's Shawn and Austin chillin' at the T-Bones game, we had lawn tickets so the kids could run around (T-Bones are a baseball team here)And here's Ash and her girlfriend, Lucy at the balloon lift-off.

This was the last day of school after the pre-school parties. I had new sunglasses and cinnamon rolls out for the kids when they got home. Go Summer!! The kids were sooo excited.
And that's what we've been up to so far this summer. It's been crazy, but crazy is good around here. We are looking forward to at least 2 more camping trips we have planned for the summer, 2 weddings, a weekend in Manhattan, The Holy Spirit Smoke-off, Jazz Festival, lots of trips to the pool and parks and many, many popsicles!