OUT . . . and . . . ABOUT

. . . school is out . . . yay! This ends my crazy schedule of a 2nd grade and kindergarten student (in two more years we will try that again and see if I learned anything:) early breakfast, early lunch, late dinner . . . You will be glad to hear I have already adjusted my summer schedule and we stay up late, get up late, and eat all day long! Seems to be working right now but the reality of it is, time is slipping through my fingers. I can't believe it is already the end of June and school will start again in 7 weeks. I am enjoying it while I can:)

Here's my little grad - about to jump off the stage from pure excitement!!! They performed a song and did the actions from the "Macarena" (do any of you remember that??) and I about fell off my chair laughing. It was so cute and you should have seen the hip movements - priceless!!!

Here's Grandma celebrating with the boys!

This is the only pic I have of our reservoir, a-hem, I mean our backyard. My garden is under there somewhere. I haven't been to sad about it until I went to a friends the other night and their garden is amazing. I am officially depressed about it now. However, I believe it has saved the water from going into our basement so I am not going to complain anymore . . . I am trying a little container gardening at this point. I will keep you posted.


June 15th was D-Day so we went out for Pizza with Gpa and Gma Leak, Jason and Sam (Matt's cousins), and Gma-Great. We came back to our house for a Hot Fudge Sundae, Platt-style (delicious recipe from my younger days. mom would make it almost every Sunday! mmmm). Then Grandpa thought it was funny to wrap the kids up in the blankets so tight they couldn't escape. They loved it!! Here are Trey and Kace giggling while Gpa wrestled with them. Thanks to everyone who helped make this day possible. We wish we could celebrate it with everyone, both near and far, and are hopeful that someday we will.

I can just here him saying "cheeese" in this pic! What a joy he is to have in our family!!


LaLa just chillin'. We went to Tony Grove last week with some friends from Corny-town. It was cold and sprinkled on us some but the kids had a great time. They even found a sledding hill, complete with snow, and had a great time sliding down on someone's raincoat!

We hiked around the lake - that would be a first for me - so this is a view looking to the east. It is a beautiful spot!