Our Life in Bulletpoints

I haven't posted much of anything since Spring Break. I hope to think that I'll go back and fill in the gaps sometime over the summer break, but I still have trips and major events from two summers ago that have yet to be posted, so I'm not holding my breath. For the moment, I'll just do what I can and take a couple minutes before I hit the shower and then the sheets to sum up all that's been going on lately (in no particular order).

- Today was the last day of school for the kids. Hello, summer! I'm pretty excited, though the summer routine (or lack of) typically seems to wreak havoc on my work schedule and the very few other (minimally) organized things in my life. I have quite a few fun things planned, and I'm just really enjoying the ages Abby and Carson are now. There are quite a few things they have the interest/attention span for that they didn't possess a year or two ago. Good times.

- Speaking of the kids ages, in May we celebrated both of the kids' birthdays. Abby turned EIGHT, and Carson turned SIX. Wait, can that be right? Five and seven sounded better, don't you think?? But really... while their childhood seems to be flying by, I do love this stage in life. We celebrated Abby's birthday at home with a spa party and what seemed like about a million kids. Whoa. She loved every minute of it though, so that made me happy. We had a little party for Carson at the bowling alley last weekend that he thoroughly enjoyed. It's been fun celebrating these two amazing kids!

- I'm looking forward to NOT getting up at 6:20 tomorrow morning.

- You've seen the garden. That's been fun!

- Lots of parties. In addition to our two, it seems we were invited to about a million other celebrations. We went to several and had to say no to others. Looking forward to a slower paced summer (though I'm working all but one weekend in June). Even though June is looking to be quite busy, we're finding time for a little three day family camping trip, and then the kids and I are going to spend a week in Howe with my parents. Looking forward to opportunities to relax and really hang out with my family.

- We're teaching Financial Peace University at the NW campus, which has been fun and inspiring. While we'd already worked our way through the first two "Baby Steps" in D.R.'s plan, it's cool being re-inspired to get on the same page and make smart money choices. We're starting to really teach our kids about money too, and it's great seeing them start to get it. Abby asked the other day when she could start saving for retirement because she wants to have a million dollars.

- AT&T made me mad this week and I think they're dumb.

- My sister called me up a couple of weeks ago and asked if I wanted to run a 5k with her and my mom. For some reason I said yes. I guess it was her charm and adorableness. She made it sound so fun and easy. It's not. I'm about a week into training though, and truth be told, it's not that awful. Having a goal definitely helps me stick to it a little more. I don't want to be embarrassed on race day! I treated myself to a set of running clothes today. Shoes are my incentive to keep it up. That and having the chance to reach this goal alongside my mom and sister. That'll be cool. Pray for me.

- Our room got clean. I can take no credit for this. It was my husband. He's amazing. I never clean our room. I'm not sure why this is, since I'm happiest when our room (above all others) is clean. It rarely is because that's the room where all the laundry ends up when we get the rest of the house clean. I think if I had the money, I wouldn't worry about getting a housekeeper, but I'd love having someone take care of laundry. It's a monster and I hate it.

- My office got cleaned too! Real good! I know you don't care, but with as crazy as life has felt lately, I take joy in these little things, and am resolving to try and keep it up better.

That's all I can think of for now, but I'll work on keeping the blog up a little better. Happy summer!