Summer is here!!

This is our first weekend of summer! The girls and I got out of school on Wednesday (me, Thursday) and we have been enjoying our time off. We went and saw the new Indiana Jones movie at the Warren theater (way cool!), slept in, played outside, had family over, slept in (I repeat it because it's important!) and planned our Birthday feast for Lauren. Ali and Joscelyn were here this weekend, and Joscelyn experienced her first bubbles. She was excited! Here they are outside.
We have a few dogs next door, one being a great dane. They can be quite loud when they bark. As Allen said, Anna was expressing her feelings about the next door backyard dwellers...

Have an awesome summer! Go outside! Sleep in!! Read books! Enjoy!!

Our Hostas

When Anna was about one and we had been in our house about a year, Allen and I decided to re-landscape our front flower bed. It was huge and unruly! We cut it's size to about half and planted wonderful perennials so we wouldn't have to keep planting every year. We found some beautiful hostas and put them right in front of the girls' window. Over the years we've lost two because the water spicket was right there. One still doesn't grow as well as it could, but the other two are huge! They are absolutely beautiful when they are full grown, and we look forward to watching their progress. Last year we said we should take pictures everyday to see how fast they grow. We remembered this year! So, without further adieu, here is the hosta remix.

Our first attempt at Letterboxing

Well, I said I would give you an update on letterboxing. Saturday afternoon we decided to try our hand at it. We went to Lake Thunderbird for our first excursion. We were doing really good until we couldn't find our first box. We looked and looked in all of the places the clues said, but couldn't find the thing! So we went on to the next box, on the other side of the lake. The road we needed to take was under construction! After that, we realized the last box was in a construction zone too. We were tired and had enough. But we did bring home something--ticks! They were on our clothes and on us. Luckily none were attached, so we were safe, but we did have the heebie-jeebies for a few hours afterward! The girls were quite frightened by having bugs on them.

As for letterboxing, it was a very cool idea and we enjoyed looking for them, but if the rest of the boxes are in that wooded of an area, we might have to re-think this hobby. I don't want to put the girls in danger from bug bites. There is a series in Moore and we'll see how that one is. Kinda disappointing...