Shame, Shame, Shame on me :(

Well I have been a bad, bad girl when it comes to my blog postings. I haven’t posted in 2 months now, I really have NO excuse for what happened to me other than……LIFE happened!

Here’s a run down of what has been going on in my life since I last blogged….

• Mom, Dad & Brother left after visiting
• end of the school year activities
• Summer started… kids home driving me crazy!
• My husband’s friend from Florida came and spend a few days with us
• Painted 3 bedrooms and my bathroom. all trim, baseboards & walls
• had to move all furniture out of all 3 bedrooms for new carpet to be installed that took longer than expected (carpet guys showed up at 8:30 am and finished at 7:00p.m. it made for a long, long day then we had to move all furniture back into all rooms and organize it all back together)
• my niece came to visit us to stay 3 weeks with us this Summer
• Had a yard sale at my friend Becky’s house in Richmond took 2 truck loads of things to her house just stuff I’ve had for years up in the attic and other things I could live without.
• Kaitlynn took her driving test for her license (2 days in a row road coarse test) good news is she passed with a perfect score….bad news is watch out Kaitlynn will be on the road and I will soon have no fingernails left for worrying myself every time she gets behind the wheel…there goes our insurance rates!!

Now if that is not enough of things going on….. now I am in the middle of packing for my annual, summer vacation trip to Florida for two weeks. The girls and I are driving(Amber my niece is driving back with us this year) down and then Marty flies down a week later stays one week with us and drives back with us. We leave early Saturday morning and drive all day 12 hours straight to Mom & Dad’s. Hope to get some really nice beach pictures this year and scrapbook with my Mom.

I will get caught up on my posts with tons more pictures when I get back from vacation….but i do have one post to do about our trip to Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens from the other day…i got some awesome pictures of the butterflies. I did manage to also update my blog topper.

 

Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens

What a beautiful place this was to visit. I met up with Becky & her kids, Wati & her kids for a nice day at Lewis Ginter in Richmond. I had Madison & her friend Savanah with me. Kaitlynn & Amber was not with me this day, they are still at the beach/Nags Head through this week with a friend of hers. So it was jut all the little ones. We spent most of the day walking through the gardens and going into the Butterflies Live area taking pictures!!! Then we ended up at the Children’s Garden where they had fountains for the kids to run through.

I went crazy and took a massive amount of pictures I could never share them all on the blog so I created an album on my shutterfly share page incase you wanted to view them all on there. Beware there are 273 pictures to view….enjoy :)