Party Tomorrow

We're celebrating Jude's 4th birthday tomorrow with a little picnic. If you read between the line there, you've translated it as, "Jeremy and I are going crazy cleaning, inside and out, to get ready for a party."

Jude doesn't turn 4 until July 4th, but we've discovered, after 3 years of planning his party, the 4th of July weekend is a crazy weekend to find a time when everyone can come here for a party, so we're having it 1 week earlier this year. Hope it works out well.

It's supposed to be nice out tomorrow, so I'm hoping to take a lot of pictures (and then post them, of course).

Happy Birthday to my soon-to-be 4 year old buddy :)

Welcome Summer

When I was a kid, I liked summer, but Fall was always my favorite season.

For some reason, summer is now my favorite time of year, so I'm excited to officially welcome summer today! It was warm, humid, sunny, rainy and all around just great :)

I am in the 4th week of a 6-week summer semester @ work and it's just crazy-busy (which is good because busy keeps me out of trouble). It's so beautiful on campus, so lunchtime walks and early morning runs are becoming routine for me.

Evenings have been filled with swinging, digging in the dirt, and plenty of quality time on the paddle boat. The boys and I go out almost everyday looking for wildlife - here's some of the great things we've found (missing from this line of photos is the huge water spider that commuted around the lake with us this evening - eeeek).

A water snake in all its glory

The frogs are our faves

We even try rescuing bugs

My next post will be about our nest......