Well...if anyone is even still checking at this point, I wanted you to know that we are all alive and well! My recovery is going very well, and I continue to make trips to Houston every 2-3 weeks for checkups. I am looking forward to the day when I can journal without mentioning anything medical!
Our boys have been very busy, and have all enjoyed learning how to swim this summer. Levi has been busy securing visits from the tooth fairy, and is working on losing yet another tooth in hopes that she'll visit before school begins again.
Isaac celebrated his 5th birthday in May, and Owen just celebrated his 10th birthday this past weekend. I LOVE HAVING BOYS! For Isaac's birthday, we celebrated by visiting the zoo with his cousins Sloan and Brody. It was raining, but...NEWSFLASH...boys love puddles, and everyone was equipped with an umbrella, so a good time was had by all (with perhaps the exception of baby Brody!).
For Owen's birthday we took a few of his friends and both of his little brothers to a local rock climbing gym. HUGE fun! Absolutely will go back...hopefully soon. Those little guys were scaling walls that went to the ceiling of the warehouse, then repelling back down again. There was also a huge rope swing in the middle, and with harnesses secured, they could swing from one end of the gym to another. EXTREMELY fun...especially for the littlest ones. And...it was challenging enough that the 10/11 year olds never got bored, and were still going strong at the end of our allotted 2 hour visit! Massive success on my part as I usually fall short of planning the perfect party. Then the guys returned home for a swim and nachos for supper, and finally a little Tim Hawkins comedy video before heading home. Way big fun for 6 boys!
Since the party season is over, I have rearranged my kitchen...don't know what I've been doing for the past year! It was a mess, and now we are enjoying easily accessible snacks and less back breaking lifting of the crock pot from the cabinet. Big deal for me! I also tackled 2 years worth of accumulation of papers that have been hibernating in my bedroom since October 2007. I have successfully whittled it down to a manageable pile of envelopes, which I plan on going through today...perhaps!
Next on the agenda is moving my desk out of our bedroom so the aforementioned papers never again accumulate around my bed and dresser! Major project, but I will get it done. I am determined...and armed with a can of Pledge...which may be empty before the day is done!
Add to that a season of Little League baseball, cousins' birthday parties, parents birthdays, a trip or two to TX, tending a garden, keeping the grass alive (without an in ground sprinkler system), and watching my mom do all of my housework for the past month, and I'd say we've been pretty busy! Oh! And we raised some chicks that we promptly gave to Grandpa Coach.
I apologize for the awful pictures of Owen's party. Jeff has the memory card with him, so I'll get some pics off of that when he gets home...if I can still get to the computer!
Hope your summer is going well. Blessings to you all.
Jeff, Leslie, and 'da boys
