Trying to Catch Up

 I have no idea where the past two months have gone. This whole year has just flown by so far. We have had a ton going on and I probably should have dedicated a post to each one. But instead, you are getting the condensed, picture version. McKenna celebrated her 9th birthday on May 4th. I can't believe she is 9 years old! She is such a sweetheart and such a huge help to me. She loves taking care of the babies and they love her to death! Then Mark celebrated his 31st birthday on May 14th. He was so excited because I got him a radar detector. I thought that might be a good idea seeing how his speedometer hasn't worked in ages. We really can't afford a ticket! :) McKenna took 2nd place in the 3rd Grade science fair. She pulled iron out of cereal with a magnet. She loves science and had a blast doing the experiment. She gets all those science smarts from her daddy. Ok, what else? Oh, Mark has now been the bishop for two years. He was called on June 8th, 2008 so that is a cool milestone. And today we went to Jacob's kindergarten graduation. I will spare you the details of that chaotic, unruly, unorganized event and just tell you how proud I was of Jacob! He is such a smarty-pants. I don't know what to do with him! Tomorrow (the 11th) is the last day of school and I haven't figured out what in the world we are going to do all summer. Any ideas of the inexpensive variety would be greatly appreciated!!! Kaitlyn's last day of preschool was actually last Friday. She was sad, but so excited to go the new school in the fall. Plus, grandma and grandpa took her up to Charleston on Saturday, so she didn’t have much time to be sad. She swam, shopped, played on the playground, got Baskin Robbins and McDonalds and got whatever she ordered from Grandma's kitchen for dinner. She even got to visit Grandpa at school and learned how to run the heart-lung machine. She got new shirts, socks, dresses, flip-flops, an Ariel microphone and coloring books. SPOILED!!! She got back yesterday and I am glad because I sure missed her!

We had a fantastic barbeque at our house on Memorial Day with some awesome friends! We had ribs, hamburgers, hotdogs, watermelon, chips, potato salad, and homemade ice cream. It was a great party, but I was so busy enjoying myself that I forgot to get my camera out. The weather here has been unusually hot for June. It has been 80 degrees at 8:30 in the morning when I take my kids to school and into the 90's during the day.

Well that is a short summary of a very hectic last few months. Here are the pics which say it a lot better than I do. I know I have missed a million things like Lora's baby shower and Mother's Day and Katy's program and field day for McKenna and Jacob. But I got what I could!