Return to Reality

We just finished our first family vacation of the summer...and were very sad to see it come to an end! We spent the week swimming, boating, playing mini golf, lounging in the hot tub and relaxing. We were also introduced to geocaching by a friend...if you have no idea what this is (like me before trying it!) it is basically a treasure hunt with a GPS. Lauren really enjoyed it and even found a few of the "treasures" for us.



Andrew and Lauren really enjoyed their time at Pirates Cove. Andrew is definitely going to be a lefty. My dad will be so proud!







Andrew's first trip to the bridge...and the water was warmer than at our lake!

Our "Rustic" Cottage

We have been busy packing for our first family vacation of the summer. We are going to spend a week at a cottage with my parents and my sister and her boyfriend. This rustic cottage has 5 bedrooms, 2 baths, a dishwasher (a must!), a wonderful private beach and a hot tub. Let the relaxing begin!

Who am I kidding...with little ones running around there is not much sitting and relaxing involved. It will still be a great vacation! I'm sure that I will post pictures when we get back.

My new husband

I know that I already posted a blog for today, but I just had to post this. My husband came out of the shower tonight and this is what he looked like... I just laughed (and laughed!) I think that I have only seen him without a goatee once or twice in 10 years. He looks like a whole new man!

The Play Room

The garage sale was a huge success! Even though we brought 8 tubs of clothes/baby things back into the house for the Fall Mom2Mom Sale, we sold at least 12 tubs of things and all of the large baby items at the sale. Now we are on to the more exciting part...creating a play room! We started moving all of the toys, etc. into the room and began looking at paint and carpet today. Yeah! I cannot wait to see the finished product (and not have toys all over every inch of my house.) I'll let you know how it turns out!

A Day on the Farm

The kids really enjoyed their time on the farm with Grandma and Grandpa...

Trash to Treasure

As we were setting up for the infamous garage sale, we decided to put the garbage out tonight instead of waiting for the morning. I was standing right outside of the garage pricing and organizing when an old blue truck pulled up, a man smoking a cigarette got out, looked through our garbage, smiled at me and then got back in his truck and drove off. We must not have had any treasures this week. Only in our town!!

Ahhh...Memories

I have been quite nostalgic the last week or so while preparing for this garage sale. Looking through the outfits that the kids wore and seeing my favorites (I am realizing that I had quite a few favorites!) I had to look back through some of our old pictures...

I cannot believe how fast they grow!

On a side note - people keep asking if we are really sure that we are done having kids. A few of our friends were "done" after two, sold everything and then found out that they were pregnant again within months. Jinx!

Summer Days

Clean Sweep

I am into the spring cleaning, clean sweep mode right now. I have gone through every room in the house and separated things that we no longer use or need. Lauren was a little alarmed at this telling me, "Mom, we can get rid of some toys...how about Andrew's things!"

I have been getting ready for a garage sale that we will be having next weekend and a friend walked into our "junk room" and asked if I was opening a consignment shop. Maybe we did have a few extra clothes than what the kids actually needed....


This is one of the racks for the sale...