Busy Bees

We have had so much going on!  Every week, I think to myself, "next week we won't be so busy." But, then I find myself signing us up for events, making playdates with friends, making appointments, so it is busy in a good way!  The past few weeks have been very full.  I'm trying to cram as much in as I can these last few weeks of summer.  This month we celebrated the 4th of July, the kids finished swimming lessons, We celebrated Ray's birthday, I got to see a lot of my friends, and the kids got to see a lot of their friends, and Ray and I went on little trip with Katie and Greg to Put-In Bay.

We had a great little trip, and we were lucky we had the perfect weather!  It was Katie and Greg's anniversary weekend, so we were able to celebrate kind of a combination of Ray's birthday and both of our anniversaries.  We soaked up the sun and got in lots of interesting people watching at the pool parties.  We had some nice meals, and overall just enjoyed our little get-away.

We have more celebrations coming up in August, which started with our 7th anniversary this weekend.  Since we were away the weekend before, we celebrated with the kids, and we took them to Great America. It was fun to celebrate as a family, and we took (snuck) Charlie on his first roller coaster, even though he was technically about 2 inches too short! 

Kenley finished sportscamp this week, and she learned a lot of different things through playing soccer, t-ball, and basketball.  She will be finishing up the summer with dance camp next week.

We are only 1 week away from Charlie's 2nd birthday!  His party is the weekend after, so we will be getting ready to celebrate with the whole family.  Last night, he graduated from a crib to a "big boy" bed.  I wanted to delay this as much as possible because all I could envision was him coming into our room multiple times a night.  But, the last two weeks, he has become a master at climbing out of his crib.  So, I gave in because I guess it's time.  He did great last night, and he only got out of bed once!  He is even napping in there now.  Hopefully, he continues doing well and keeps napping because I am not ready for him to give those up yet!

Last week, we had our 2nd annual BIG playdate.  I invited pretty much all of my friends with young kids over to our house.  We had so much fun, and total ended up with about 16adults and 27 kids ranging from about 3 months-8years old.  (Not everyone was there for the picture)  It actually went very well, the kids all behaved, played nice, and the mom's got to socialize!  It was a lot of fun, and I am definitely planning on having one again next year!

I know it will be just a matter of time until school starts again. I'm gong to be teaching 2 classes again, both 2 days a week.  It is going to be very weird dropping both kids off a school two mornings a week also.  They will go to school in the mornings on the same days that I will be working in the afternoon.  It will be very weird and nice to have those 3 hours to myself.  I plan on napping, getting manicures/pedicures, shopping, etc.....Oh, who am I kidding?  Ha,ha, I will be going to the gym, maybe getting a little bit of cleaning done, and grading/preparing for my classes!  Maybe, every now in then I will try to sneak in some of those fun, relaxing things, but I already know that those 3 hours between drop-off and pick-up time go fast!

For now, I will enjoy these last 2 weeks of summer!!