Hello Again!

It has come to my attention that there are actually a few people who stop in here to read and they have wondered where I have gone (thank you all 3 of you loyal readers!). The problem when I stay away so long is the need I feel to recap all of the events I have missed blogging about. So here it goes... We muddled through the spring and early summer. Here are some of the highlights...

• We celebrated the kids birthdays (10 and 4 - wow) 
• Bryn finished 4th grade
• Grant had his last day of Parent's Day Out (onto preschool next year)
• Bryn and I took a Spring Break trip to St. Louis on the train with Riley and Victoria
• The Hunger Games move finally came out 
• Bryn played soccer and took a theater class at the Arts Center
• Grant played blastball (a fast paced and kind of hilarious form of t-ball)
• I went to Vegas with Krista and got a tattoo (OK...it was only a temporary one. I still can't commit to a real one) 
• I finished my tenure as Library Board president - yippee! Now I am treasurer...
• All of us visited Idaho and I went to Brave Girls Camp (more on that later, most likely) 
• I survived another year of VBS. Probably more importantly, all of the kids survived another year of me at VBS 
• All of the grandparents came for a visit (not all at the same time, although even that might work as they are all pretty well behaved!) 
• We took a family canoe trip with friends 
• Bryn went to Animal Camp for a week 
• Aaron and I went on an adult canoe trip with friends and laughed our asses off all weekend. Actually, we laughed a lot but none of my ass disappeared in the process, unfortunately.
• I bought a guitar that I have no idea how to play.

As always, when I list our goings-on, I feel like it is way too short a list to be taking up so much time in my life. That being said, I have been working hard to simplify my life and quit living at such a frenetic pace. Some days are more successful than others in that regard, but I figure it gives me a goal to keep working on. Or something. At any rate, dear readers, I am back...frenetic and crazy and always full of opinions.