Where've we been?!

Why it's so hard to just stay up to date on here - I have no idea. I guess I just don't really think anyone wants to sit around reading about my not-so-exciting life. I won't blog about problems because, really, who *doesn't* have their share of problems right now? All we can do is keep chugging along and praying everything works out soon.

We're having a good spring / summer aside from the not so good. We had our first (and second lol) camping trip of the season and we are heading out again Thursday. (night for me after I get off of work) The kids LOVE going camping and we've been having so much fun. We typically stick to Normandy Farms. It's a fantastic campground. VERY kid oriented, extremely clean, three pools, fishing pond, baseball fields, it's big and it's got full hook up's which makes John happy b/c now he won't go anywhere that doesn't. The only thing is it's a little pricey so we can't go as often as we'd like. However. I just found out about a place in Mansfield that John's cousin goes to and she said it's half the price of Normandy with all of the same amenities so I think I'm going to look into it. We'll at least give it a shot for a weekend and see how we like it! We'd really like to go as much as possible and enjoy our camper. We just found out that some friends of ours (yes, I mean you Steph lol)

These are some pics from Normandy Farms. Basically the pool lol. I'll try and get some more pictures of other things this weekend.



My bathing beauty


Another pasttime, for the boys anyway, is fishing. They LOVE it. John took them this past Saturday morning and they had SO much fun. Came home with a boat full of fish. Well, 10 fish to be exact but this is impressive b/c NONE of them were John's lol. Only Aidan and Ryan caught the fish. Ryan was SO excited b/c he caught a 2lb, 12oz large mouth Bass all on his own!! He was SO proud. He called Papa and Auntie Kellie to come see and he wouldn't let John get rid of them until he got to show Uncle Ronny and Uncle Boo Saturday night when they came over. So stinking cute. Oh, when I say "get rid of" I mean John took them to the pond behind Kellie's house and let them go back there. So the fish are alive and well, just swimming in a new pond now.




This upcoming weekend is Father's Day weekend. I already mentioned we are camping. I have to take the boys out to buy something for John. I decided I'm going to let THEM pick out whatever they want. Even if it's silly - it's from their hearts and I think that makes all the difference. I took Erynn to a local pottery shop for her gift. They had a "Little Lady Day" where they had the girls come in their party dresses, they had munchkins and juice, they got to paint a piece of pottery for their Dad (Erynn chose a mug) and then they got manicures. Erynn, surprisingly, didn't want a manicure but she had fun painting her mug. I can't wait for her to give it to her Daddy.