Packing for a Road Trip

J and C are headed to New York to see John, Joanne, Sean and Lesley. They came over so I could pack them up, tonight. Here are some pics

Catch Up

I know it's been awhile. I've had quite a few projects lately but am looking forward to the 4th of July weekend. Last weekend was quite busy with cutting out 3000 Campbell soup labels for J's school. I took over the label program which was a bit behind; to find out that they were due on June 30th. Don't worry we made it :)

Eric took vacation this week and spent it with the kids. The kids had their faces painted at the zoo. Here are some pics.

Swimming Fun 2011

I can hardly pull the kids away from the pool! All 3 of them are little water babies. We have had some beautiful days for swimming. Little miss Tootie still got a little burn after 6 applications of spf 70. Soph has J and I's skin tone so we really don't burn. Tootie is loving the water and doesn't even mind putting her whole face in the water this year. Nikki is taking them to Vacation Bible School this week and then swim lessons will start after that.
Our neighbor, Ashley, has been babysitting for the kids. They LOVE her. She has been awesome. Unfortunately she is at a horse retreat until Tuesday :( We miss her, already. Her dad is a professional horse trainer and they own 2 National Grand Champions. We can't wait to go ride! Especially Miss Tootie. Tootie is cracking me up, her favorite line lately, is "That's Sweeeeeet". "Sweet jump, Mom" "Sweet Bike, Jackson". It's hilarious. J's two front teeth are almost in.

Bees Bees Bees

Well, last weekend, I saw a swarm of thousands of bees swarming over the pool. Apparently, they finished building a hive in the house siding. They would constantly swarm around the pool filter. I found the nicest beekeepers and they came and helped extract them. It was amazing the bees were actually very friendly, they weren't combative and didn't sting any of us. After they removed the siding, they took a special bee vacuum and sucked them off of the honeycomb, then they extracted the honeycomb and the comb that just had honey and no eggs, I got to keep. We LOVE the honey. It is so good for you, especially in raw form. The other honeycomb with eggs or baby bees were placed inside of homemade screens and then placed in a box. The bees were trapped in a screen container from the bee vac and placed in their hive and transported to the beekeepers hive to see if we got the queen. If she dies, then another hive will need to adopt the workers and accept them. It is sooooooo amazing.