Reading...

I've tried to be better at picking up books and reading them over the past few years. And I have to admit, I've been pretty good at keeping my goal.
I wanted to share a few books I've read this summer that have been really good. The first one is called 20 Wishes by Debbie Macomber. The next is called The Wednesday Letters by Jason F Wright. Both are feel-good books- with people trying to do better with their lives despite traumas they've had. I'm glad I read them. It makes me think about my own life and what I can do to improve it.
So pick up a book and read!! :)

Where Do I Begin?

I know I'm hit or miss on writing, so where do I begin to catch up? :) The girls let out of school last week. Here's what we had to deal with the last week of school--

Doesn't that look like fun? It looks like a pharmacy!! :) All of the girls got strep throat. They got better just in time to attend their last day of school. Lucky them. haha

On the up side- This is of Brooke in her kindergarten program and with her teacher, Mrs. Plomer, who retired this year. She was a little ball of fire. The kids loved her so much.

Here is a picture of Briana receiving her Academic High Honors awards for having a 3.95 GPA. (actually, those pictures didn't turn out so well- it was too dark. So we took one of her when she got home) We don't have report cards yet, so I think that's what her GPA is. She has straight A's. Briana was asked to be in the Honors Math Program for 7th grade next year. They will be studying Pre-Algebra. Yippie! :) Go Briana!!

This is her best friend, Izzy.

What's wrong with me? I didn't get a picture of Brandi! Shame on me. But Brandi had a fun last day of school. She forgot her lunch box, so I had to run it to the school around 10am. I only did that because it was the last day and she had depleted the money in her lunch account. So I ran it up to her only to be called an hour later to tell me that she had fallen off the monkey bars. So I went back up to the school to pick her up. I brought her home, gave her Tylenol, fed her lunch (she brought her lunchbox back home and ate it- so much for the first trip) and then I took her back because she couldn't bare missing the last day playing games, etc. with her friends. She was fine- we took her to the chiropractor the next morning and they fixed her all back up. :) So no pictures of her. Oh well. I will post some pictures later of her doing some of her gymnastics moves. She's pretty darn good! :) Yay for Summer!

Slip 'n Slide Fun

The girls just had to get out the slip 'n slide with all of this warm weather we've had. Alec, Ian and Hannah Day came running over with their swimsuits on too. They had a blast- so much fun as a matter of fact that the slip 'n slide tore up! But it was time for it to tear up. Aunt Pamelia gave that to Briana when she turned 5!! That was 7 years ago. So we've had it for a long time.

Happy Birthday to me!

I have the nicest friends... I was treated to lunch at Red Robin's. Too fun! Ronnie gave me an IPod for my birthday. It was an early present a few weeks ago and I have really loved it! Thanks everyone for making my birthday so memorable.