This & That

Well, the sun has been peeking through the clouds for the past couple of days, so we are drinking in whatever tidbits we can get. The ground is still so wet and there are puddles everywhere, so whatever we do and wherever we go the boys are perpetually soaked! The water and the puddles just seem to draw them! But, I can't scold - they have missed being outside SO much! So, these past two days there has been lots of puddle stomping and riding bikes through muddy messes. Good times!

We released ALL of our little critters. We're going away for vacation, so I figured now was a good time to let all the littles go and start over afresh and anew when we get home. Grampy DID bring over two beautiful green moon moths that we've been enjoying. Interesting tidbit: when they hatch into moths, they have no mouths, so they don't eat and consequently only live for one week! Sooooo, I don't feel so bad keeping them until they die!

Kev and I went on a really fun date the other night. Instead of doing the usual dinner and a movie, we decided to instead take a drive down to Bar Harbor and eat at a little place right on the water and then walk around town for awhile. That was SO much fun, and we've decided that's what we're going to do more often - use up that time that we'd normally be sitting for two hours and drive a little farther away.

Our babysitter called though, and said that she was having a little trouble getting Jesse to go to sleep. She said he wouldn't stop talking to Kaden and she wasn't sure what to do! I told her to just not go in at all anymore and he would peter out within a few minutes. First thing the next morning, Jesse tattled on himself and came right up to me and said: "I no obey Abby. I talk Kaden!" Pretty funny.

And the highlight of my summer: tomorrow we're kicking it, and I am TOTALLY pumped!!!

We're all going up to the County to celebrate the 4th of July. My little brother is home from the Border Patrol Academy for just a few days and then he'll be gone for ten more months. So, we're going to go and spend some time with him. And THEN we are leaving kidlets with my parents, and we are going to New Hampshire for FIVE NIGHTS......ALL BY OURSELVES to celebrate our ten year anniversary!!!!

We've never left them this long before - only for a night or two here and there - but they are totally excited and so are we! Kev says that we're going to catch up on five years of lost sleep! Although it's predicted to rain EVERY SINGLE DAY - Praises - we're going to make the best of it and have tons and tons of fun. We've been to this area many times before and we've already conquered everything that there is to do, so we just plan to chill and play and swim and eat and relax to the MAX!!!

Happy 4th of July, All!