Shannon's space

The summer has sure gone by quickly!  We have been spending most days at the local beach.   I ran my 2nd 5K, improved my time a little, but not as much as I had hoped.   I am planning to run another in September providing Eric is home from Mexico, another work trip.    Anthony turned 5!  Wow, where did all the time go?   We had a party with his friends at the bowling alley and then a party here at home.   Lego's are so big right now, Eric and I had lots of things to help him put together.   I just celebrated my birthday too.   Sure do not feel any older, expect the days when Nathaniel wanted to get up at 5:45. 

 

I hope everyone is enjoying the summer and is as busy as we are!

Wow, where has the time gone?   Summer is just whizzing by!   Eric made it to Germany and back home safely.   Anthony had a great time in Tee-ball and loved the fact that Eric was his coach.  I think Eric had just as much fun as all the kids did.   We are gearing up for Anthony's 5th birthday!  Where did time go?  Seems like yesterday he was just a baby.   Now, he is learning to read, riding a bike with no training wheels, and picking his own clothes out for kindergarten!  AHHH!   Either way I have to embrace this time or I will miss all the excitement.  Nathaniel just goes along for the ride.  He is trying so hard each day to say more and more.   Sometimes we figure it out and well, other times he just has the coversation to himself.   I just signed up to run my 2nd 5K.   It will end up being amost a year from when I started running.  I just had to get my 2nd pair of shoes out.   Not too much else new here.  We are staying busy, trying to be thrifty people with the cost of everything going up.  Most days, you will find us as the beach!  

We had a wonderful time in Disney.  The looks on the boys' face were priceless.  They just loved it.   Anthony got to go on Space Mountain, which he really wanted to do.  We learned the Nathaniel's favorite character is Goofy.   As well, he got to go on many of the rides too.  The Playhouse Disney stage show was great!  As well, our friends put up having us crash at their home and run around crazy with us.   Just some pictures...

 

Since we will be in Florida for Eric's birthday so we celebrated yesterday.   The boys wanted to get him a baseball cake.  So we had a Twins cake and dinner at home. 

I got Eric the new Twins book the good, the bad and the ugly.  So far he says it is good.   As Anthony's count down goes 3 days until Florida.

 

 

Yesterday we had Anthony's last day of preschool.  They had a little party at school where got his portfolio from the past year.  So neat to see his handwriting change.  He told me after the party that he was now a Kindergartener.  He is excited for summer!  We leave in a week to visit our friends in Florida.  We are all looking forward to vacation.    It is really hot there.  So we went today to pick up some tank tops.  I usually do not buy them becauese it is not that warm here usually.   I found some for $5 so I was happy with that.   

 

Eric will be traveling to Germany again for work.  I am glad we have VBS that week at church.  That will help time go by faster.    I think Eric is bummed because he will miss 2 night of teeball.  He really likes coaching and we have great group of kids with really nice parents.   

 

Will try to bring the warm Florida weather back.  Happy Memorial Day!