Ok I'm Going To Update This...

I know...I know...I have been saying for a while now that I am going to get this brought up to date and I haven't as of yet. So here I go in one big long post:

May:

This was a crazy month for us between a visit from from Rob & Tressa, the boy's First Communion, and school getting out for the summer. As you already know we had a great visit with Rob and Tressa. The boy's had their First Communion on Mother's Day. It was a very nice service, but the weather that day was very cold and rainy. Caleb is done with his sacraments until he gets to high school. Matthew however will begin preparing for his Confirmation in the fall as will Kaitlin. They will go through their confirmation together in October of 2009. Hopefully they will have a better day weather wise for that. Their last day of school was May 23rd, which is kind of late for us...but hey I'm not complaining. I am pleased to say that the kids all got excellent report cards, Kaitlin even made top honors on the honor roll. So I would say that this school year was a huge success for all the kids. This means that in the fall...Kaitlin will be a junior (YIKES)...Matthew will be in 6Th grade (EEK)...and Caleb will be in 4Th grade (OMG). It is so hard for me to believe that my babies really aren't babies anymore. For crying out loud Kaitlin will be 16 in August, my how time flies when your watching your babies grow. Oh also more towards the end of May we had Caleb in and out of the hospital for some stomach problems, but they seem to have worked themselves out. There is no denying that my family had been through a lot in the last few months, and I think most of it for him was just stress. I think that is about it for May.

June:

The kids and I left June 13Th for vacation, it was a nice long 4 week vacation to visit with family and friends in the DC area. We had a lot of fun, but 4 weeks away from home and living out of suitcases got to be a bit too much. It was so wonderful to see everyone though. Usually our vacation is only 1 week and we can never fit everyone we want to see into that 1 week, so this year we decided that the kids and I would go and see all our friends first and then Paul would fly out for a week and we would spend that time with the family. Even though it was a long time to be away from home it did give us the chance to see everyone. While we were there the kids and Paul got to meet Jenna for the first time, things went very well at first...more towards the end of the trip things began to fall apart. I don't really want to go into it but as of now the reunion is over for many different reasons. You can read more about that on: www.abirthmomsthoughts.blogspot.com While we were on vacation we went to the zoo, the beach, a water park, a couple different parks, NJ, to Philly, the new air and space museum, DC, and we spent countless hours in Rob & Tressa's pool. Even though it was tiring, and a long time to be away from home we all had a great time, and are now missing everyone we spent time with.

July:

Well Paul flew to meet us on July 1st. Then we finished up our vacation and headed home July 10Th. Since then we really haven't done much of anything at all. Just been getting back into the swing of things. Kaitlin is getting ready to leave on Wednesday July 30Th for a FFA Leadership Camp. She will be gone 4 days to that, then once she comes home we will be kicking in to high gear planning for her Sweet 16th birthday party. And soon I will be going crazy getting ready to send the kids back to school. The boys are enjoying the lazy days of summer, and dreading going back to school. Kaitlin is not excited about the fact that school starts on her birthday this year...yep, they go back August 19Th (the day of her 16th birthday). I have been teasing her about making cupcakes so she can take them to school for her birthday. When she was little she used to cry because she was never in school on her birthday so she never got to take cupcakes to share with her class. So I asked her if she would like me to make some cupcakes for her class this year since she will be in school on her birthday. Needless to say it was a definite NO!!! Too bad their first day of school is only a half day otherwise I would surprise her with cupcakes at lunchtime...HeHeHe

Okay I have now brought this blog current. Now all I have to do is post the pictures of theses events in our life on the picture blog, but that won't be today. I will put a post on here as I get them posted over there. Love to all...