In the Blink of an Eye...

...this...

...grows into this.

I thought for sure I'd be able to hold it together, seeing as this is the third time we've sent a kid to pre-k. Then I turned around and walked out that door, and it was hopeless.

Summer's Over...Already?

Being that I'm  teacher's wife, I always think that summer passes by too quickly. This one has been a record breaker in my book, though! We jam packed the past three months with a flurry of activities, which made the weeks fly by even faster than we expected.

We started the summer off by giving the house a face lift since our front porch was cracked and the brick facade was falling off. Hopefully next summer we'll be able to reside the rest of the house. We had two out of town weddings for friends that we've known since childhood. Baseball stretched throughout the summer, with Ethan being asked to play in a couple of tournaments. Mark and I got to celebrate our 10 year anniversary with a trip to New Hampshire, Maine, and New York City...thanks to the three free hotel nights I won from Sevenstar! We took the kids to Niagra Falls and rode the Maid of the Mist. Mark headed to Cross-Country camp for 5 days...we joined him in a tent one of the nights. I headed to Tennessee for 4 days to enjoy MOPS International Convention. It was great time with 8 wonderful ladies...we got to hear from Max Lucado, Sara Groves, Mandisa, and Steven Curtis & Mary Beth Chapman.  Two hours after returning from that trip I headed to Hocking Hills with the kids to spend a couple days with my mom's side of the family for our annual Barbaro Family Reunion. This past week we squeezed in a Backyard Bible Club and now we're jumping in to inservices, welcome calls, orientations, and cross-country meets.

Here are a few picture highlights some of the things we've done: