Three Weeks

The last three weeks have been a little crazy here. Don has been gone for 5 weeks now. He is home almost every weekend, but the weeks are really long and busy. This is the time of year the kids are so excited about, three weeks left of school and lots of fun activities for the end of school year.

Michael school has a field trip at the end of the year for those kids that are A/B honor roll all year, no discipline issues and few absent days. This years trip they went to San Diego for a weekend. Michael had a great time. He is looking forward to the 8th grade dance in a week, and his last field trip, a day at Sunsplash water park, on the last day of school. Last week was the last band concert for the year, and both the boys did a great job. In two weeks is Michael's 8th grade graduation and he is looking forward to be a high school student.

Nick got to enjoy patriotic day at his school. A huge performance by the band, choir ,special speakers and the kindergarten from Emily's school. Nicks has been less busy with end of the year activities, which is fine with Nick. He is just ready for school to be out.

Emily got to sing in front of the 6th and 7th graders at the boys school. Her class put on Donuts for Daddy, however she was sick on this day and was unable to go. Next Friday her class will enjoy Mom's spa day where she will get to do my hair, nails, and I will get a massage all given by Emily. The following Monday we will enjoy her Kindergarten graduation.

We have had our first trampoline accident the other day. Emily was jumping by herself and over extended her knee causing a loud popping sound and lots of tears. After a few hours in Urgent Care and a diagnosis of sprain knee, Emily is walking around but not yet running and not back on the trampoline. We will have to give that a few more days.

Three weeks from today will be the first day of summer vacation. I am just as excited as the kids. Every year we have a very quiet, relaxing summer around the pool with friends. This summer we have so much planned in a small amount of time. We will just spend one week at home relaxing before we will leave for Maui. We have been planning this trip for over a year now, and we couldn't be more excited. After Maui we will be home for two days then we will leave for Oregon. The kids and I will go stay with Don for about 6 weeks before coming home, so Michael can attend band camp at the high school. He has three weeks of band camp before school starts. And before you know it it will be August. Just thinking about it makes me do a double take and wonder what happened to our quiet,relaxing summer??