Sweet Caroline

Mikey and I celebrated TEN years together on June 13- I don't know where the time goes, but it sure goes fast!  Marriage is beautiful, messy, hard, fun, complicated, and takes a LOT of work- but every day it is worth it.  We aren't perfect by any means, but every day we make the choice to be together and love and live life as one.  I'm constantly learning things about myself that I need to work on, but it is worth it to me to work on myself so that I can be the spouse I need to be.  I can't imagine NOT being with my guy, through good times and   bad- he's always the one I would choose to live this crazy life with.  Excited about the next ten years with him by my side, but gosh I hope they don't go by so fast. We celebrated by sneaking off to Marco Island, Florida for a few days and it was so perfect.  The weather was gorgeous and we enjoyed it just being the two of us.  We relaxed a lot, but also got in some adventure time for my non beach...

So I think I'm done writing here, but then I am reminded how I love to look back on what I was thinking/doing in each phase of my life as a mama and it makes me want to document more.  Anyways, I definitely want to capture our day to day this summer.  As much as we miss our Weezie and Mr. Bill this summer, we are all LOVING having sitters come to the house and keep the kids.  I had decided it was time for the kids to be able to stay home and enjoy the lake/going places/etc. and with most camps being from 9-12, it was a logistical nightmare trying to coordinate drop off and pick up with two parents who work full time, outside of the house.  Having a sitter come to our house this summer has truly been one of the BEST decisions ever.  We have two recent high school graduates, who we know and LOVE, split the week.  They come around 8:15 every morning and Mikey or I are generally home between 5 and 5:30.  My favorite part is I'm not rushing around ge...

So much lake fun has been had....with friends and family.   End of first grade celebration, so proud of this sweet girl!  We hosted a big shin dig at our house for my Grandfather's NINETIETH birthday celebration! It was so fun, and he definitely enjoyed it.  My parents went and had lunch with their two first graders before the end of school, made their day for sure!  A little baseball action...  working hard!  First and last day of first grade :-(