Wow, time has really gone by so fast this summer, especially July. It seems as though I blinked my eyes and it was gone. I guess that means we have been having lots of fun! Michigan vacation was nice as always. Even better since we got to stay right on black lake with Julie and Mike, love their place. The boys had a blast playing with their cousins, fishing, canoeing, jet skis, and a boat rides. They could not get enough. On the way home we stopped to visit my older brother, Paul. The kids played hard again and I got to visit with my nana who i had not seen in years either. It was very nice. We ended the visit by going to my fathers grave, I know he was smiling down on us this weekend, to have us all together, I'm sure it made him happy. We've gone camping and boating, had sleepovers and play dates, baseball playoffs (Ausin's team won 2nd place, very proud of his wonderful season), spent one week completely organizing, cleaning, and decorating (such a good feeling to mark off some of these things from the to-do list), and well now it's already time to start thinking about work again. Jeff and the kids came up to classroom tonight to move some things around. I will start working this week for a little while each day, leaving plenty of time to play with the kids. We were so thankful to have Jeff home today... he had to work from 6:30-6:00 this week plus all day Saturday so needless to say we didn't get much quality time with him. I asked Austin if he had missed daddy this week since he was working so much, he answered as if what kind of question is that, "YES A LOT" he said. So, he made him a cute card that he missed him and wished he could have been home with us but he understands he has to make money. He drew a nice picture of them playing ball. Which I'm so proud of Jeff for being able to come up with the energy to play ball with the kids every night. Preston wants to play all day~ every day. I guess watching Austin has him excited to play now. Now it's time to try to get back to an early schedule... we are totally on our summer schedule..stay up late, sleep in late. Love my job! I am so blessed to be able to stay home so much with my family and have a job that I look forward to.