End of the school year

Wow! It's been a quick month!  The boys have 1 day of school left and we are ready!! Oliver graduated from kindergarten last night.   Baseball has ended and swim team is starting. Parker leaves for Youth camp next Tuesday and has football all summer.  So much for summer break :)   Cooper received 2 awards today, 1 was for all A honor roll for the whole year. The other was voted by the class and he was named Top Mathmatician.  He was so proud!

 Our garden is beautiful in spite of a hail storm that destroyed most of the new plants.  They looked like they had been hit by a weed eater.  But almost everything bounced back and is blooming.  The only thing that didn't come back after the hail was the spinach. I'll post a pic tomorrow of what is left, it looks like a deer got to it.  I was really looking forward to fresh spinach and feta omelets this summer.  I'll have to settle for store bought spinach for now.  We should have squash to eat in about a week, it looks beautiful.  We used barn compost from my friend Melinda's horse barn to turn into the soil for fertilizer and it is awesome!!

I hope to have more information to blog over the summer.  Due to baseball 3 nights a week for the past several months I haven't cooked much.  We've been eating a lot of Grilled Chicken Salads and sandwiches before ballgames.   I've been making coaster sets out of ceramic tiles to sell in my booth and I sold 30 sets between Mother's day and the end of school ( w/ the help of my PR Rep, Dawn).  Now I'm working on Father's Day designs for "the Man Caves".  So far I have vintage beer labels that are really cool and look great.  I want to do some w/ Golf designs and fishing motifs.  The coasters sell better than anything else in my booth right now so I'll keep making them and doing new designs. 
 I guess that is all for tonight. Everyone around me is snoring- The little boys fell asleep downstairs, one in the chair and the other on the dog bed :\  The dog, Shorty is snoring b/c he's not on his bed and can't get comfortable. I'm glad I washed the dog bed before my washing machine died.  Oh yeah, that happened too. Fortunately it's under warranty but the part won't be here until next Friday! We'll be out of clothes by then.  I'm going to the laundry mat tomorrow afternoon and do all of it!  Speaking of things breaking I am reminded that we had to have a fuel pump replaced in the Yukon and the transmission went out in the Cargo Van in the last 2 weeks.  Hopefully we are finished w/ repairs for now. 


#13 Parker's Spring Jamboree 5/16/12