May Madness

Gabriel and me after his PreK presentation
Gabriel and his wonderful PreK teachers. I could not have been happier with their work with the kids this year. These ladies are amazing!

Gabriel on stage (kinda) Still I could not believe he actually said his line and did the motions. Yay Gabe!

the end of May was CRAZY!

I took off to Georgia for a week because my mother had to have back surgery. I got home late Saturday night 2 days before Memorial Day. Before my mother's unfortunate rupture of her disk, I had asked (begged, pleaded) Scott to come down from Syracuse and help me and Gary finish some home projects that were about to drive me crazy. I came home to newly laid floor and lots of dust from spackling and sanding walls. Needless to say, my house was a hot mess! Thank you Scott for helping me stay sane, Gary for putting up with me nagging, and Cortnie who really was the one who made Scott come bail me out/help me. :)

My brother and sister in law showed up a few minutes after I got home with a van load of their things to put in our garage while they figured out where they were going and what they were going to do since they sold their house in Catonsville, MD. The next day, they moved in with their 4 children and all the things they would need to live out of suitcases for 2 months or so. Since my mom's surgery was kinda sudden I did not have anytime to prepare the house the way I'd wanted to for them before they arrived. Needless to say, I spent the next 3 days rearranging furniture and clothes to make room for their family. Oh plus cleaning from the home improvements projects!

My boys moved into Eli's nursery, Gary and I were in our room, Will and Sarah got the older boys'room with the full bed, and their 4 kids got Ammon's room that had 2 twin beds in it. It was tight but manageable. Their kids were pulled out of school early while mine were still in school and Zechariah thought that wasn't fair at all! :) But we were busy with soccer, end of the year festivities, Elijah's 1st birthday!, Zech had a piano recital, Gabe had a PreK presentation, etc, etc. We were BUSY!!! Thank goodness for 2 moms! Sarah was a huge help! It was nice having another set of eyes and ears in the house especially since the # of children doubled!

Soccer fun

Soccer was very time consuming and such a blast. Zechariah and Gabriel really enjoyed themselves. So did Elijah and Ammon! Their favorite thing to do was kick the ball. It was so cute
to watch Eli chase and kick the ball like his big brothers.

So much catch up to do

I have neglected this blog for so long that I began to wonder if it was even worth catching up and forging on. I mean does anyone really read this stuff? Then I told myself that since I don't journal, even if no one on the face of the planet reads it, at least I've written it down and can print it for future posterity. So, here it goes. The first of many posts in attempts to catch up on the last 2 months of our lives.
Has it really been that long? Seriously, it feels like much longer. I'm not kidding. I'm exhausted! I cannot believe it's almost time for the kids to go back to school! I am so sad. I have not done anything that I wanted to do with them. So much for teaching Gabriel and Ammon to read. (sigh)
I am getting ahead of myself. Ok, I've got to back up to May and soccer and school getting out.
Have fun! Here I go: