It is SUMMERTIME!!!!

As always, the school year FLEW by!  September always bring excitement and routine and homework and lunches and the thought of May always feels so far away.  Then, before you know it, May is here and so is summer.

The end of school has been wonderful for the kids.  They had wonderful EOY parties that I got the pleasure of helping at.  We had great grades by all the kids and we have had unusually nice weather for this time of year.  We also finally got new carpet in the family room and new travertine in the kitchen.  You heard it here first folks, the white ceramic tile is no longer a part of the house and we could not be more thrilled!  Now, it is not to say it was all peaches and cream while the tile was demo-ed and the new travertine went in.  No, that was not so pleasant.  Imagine being stuck in your bedroom with you kids/husband/dog (yes, we did get our sweet Cora and we adore her) and everything everywhere else is covered in dust.  Thank goodness we knew the end result was going to be fabulous. And, thank goodness it was not more than a few days because in the morning while I was working at the desk in our bedroom and my husband laid in bed with his iPad I might have gotten a little irritated having my space invaded.

So, we are cooped up in my room and we have the new puppy and Ben decides to chew some bubble gum and throw it in the bushes.  Ryan specifically told him not to.  But, he is 6 and unable to make rational, sound decisions when it comes to his trash.  So, out to potty we go and low and behold she steps in gum.  A dog's paw and gum don't go well together.

Then, Ben "accidentally" let Cora out of our room and she busted tail (literally) to run to the kitchen and step with all four paws in the set cement stuff they use for the tile.  Great!  Nice!

Then, the twins had asked if they could make snow cones.  I said they could in just a minute.  The mantra of my life.  So, I am at my desk in my room working and I look out and see Ben licking a snow cone.  I go outside to find Hayes scooping ice into the machine and making snow cones.  Well, besides being a little impressed that they did it themselves on the flip side I could have been a little irritated.  Then I realized better them to do it than me :)

We leave for Florida on Saturday - YEA!!!! So ready! So excited!  Beach, here we come!  Yes, we are taking Cora and crossing our fingers we don't get kicked out for having a pet in a no pet rental house.