Where has all the time gone?

Okay, I started this blog last month and have spent the last month trying to find all my e-mail address that were lost when the computer crashed in January; see I really am slow at getting things done, but I think I have finally found them all and now I'm ready to let everyone know that I'm keeping a blog page. I'll figure this computer thing out yet, but at least now I know how to "pump gas and kick the tires".

So lets see.........Katy had a wonderful time at camp, she didn't want to come home and is ready to go back next year.

Katy with her camp counselors Tika and Alisa

Katy and Lexie with thumbs up about going to camp next year

Swimming has also started at Wyoming Area for any students so Katy, Becca, and Steven are all taking classes (5 days a week and 2 hours a day for 5 weeks.) So I spend 2 hours a morning sitting next to a pool and two hours each evening with Katy a her swim team practice. With all the sweating I do I should be really skinny in a few weeks. The kids are loving it and are all fishes.


Luke sitting with me while the other kids are swimming.








Steven in the pool -doesn't he look happy



Becca with her friends Carley and Abbey









My big fish Katy

For the 4th of July we went to the Pitcavage Rebellion, it was a fun day, with just about everyone in attendance that is local to the area. I asked Karl to take pictures, which was my first mistake he didn't take many pictures, but here are what was taken:

The boys taking a time out to play video games








Girls watching TV in the Grandparents Room











Luke being lazy on the Fourth.



So you can see I shouldn't have given Karl the camera, but we had a fun weekend watching fireworks and visiting with family and friends. Hope everyone had a good day. So now we are back to the normal busy summer things. Drew and Mark working, spending time with friends grilling, and taking the kids swimming.

The kids are demanding to use the computer again, I only get a few minutes here and there, when they are busy doing other things. Enjoy!!!

Given In

Okay, I have finally given in and decided that summer would be a perfect time to start a family blog page, after all I don't slow down to often. Isn't summer when you are to sleep in till noon, each chocolate, watch TV, be lazy and recover from the last school year?

As normal that is not what goes on here. Right now it is quiet. Drew and Mark have not emerged yet from their respective rooms, Luke is watching cartoons telling me to SHHHH if I step to loud (Mark has Luke well trained to keep the house quiet till he gets up....of course Luke does slam the bedroom door closed when he gets up!). Katy is away at Black Rock Retreat which is a week long sleep away camp she goes to. Steven is at a friends house for the night, and Becca is passed out in my bed after standing next to the bed for a good hour crying that there were bugs on the floor so she wanted to sleep in our bed. (I fell asleep after about twenty minutes, Karl got to here the last forty minutes).

Karl the good man that he is, is at work away from all the "craziness" for the day, boy he looked so "sad" to be heading off into "adult land".

So this is my quiet time before the boys get up and I take them to work. They are working for their grandfather and uncle again this summer so that will keep them busy. The funnest thing for the week was getting Mark's hair done, and then doing Locks of Love with Becca. They both are thrilled to have new styles:

Becca's Old Style

Becca's New Style

Mark's New Style, it is a brownish black, which we both like. Boy you can tell he is a teenager!!! The first color he tried was a temporary dye that turned his hair green/gray, so we all like this one lots more.

Katy is away at Black Rock Retreat this week which is a sleep away camp with her friend Lexie. This is their second year and they are really enjoying it. I wish I was there with them. This is the same camp that I went to when I was there age. I would be more then happy to pull up a bunk next to them.

The noise around the house is picking up, gotta run.