lots of this 'n that...

Well, what can I say...I've been a bit, okay a lot behind in blog posts. Guess I can chalk it up to just being busy and enjoying every last second of summer.

Here's a few of the highlights:

* Wyatt's summer school adventure...tomorrow is Wyatt's last day of summer school as he will be missing the last three days due to our family vacation. To say we are amazed at the growth in him over the course of the past few weeks would be an understatement...we are speechless. What started as a rough process, grew into something so unique and special for Wyatt which means so much. We are very excited as Wyatt really had his own little world to explore and enjoy. He did great! He made friends, learned a lot, and most of all grew up before our eyes. So, later in August our little boy will head to as Mrs.D calls it "the Big Time, Kindergarten". We are incredibly thankful for the past few weeks...thankful for Wyatt's adventure this summer and what it means to his mommy and daddy.

* Camryn's adventurous summer...let's just say Camryn has had a few full weeks of summer. Camryn's goal this summer was to learn to swim, and I'm proud to say that she is well on her way there. Many thanks to our friends who kindly let us use their pools...so nice! Camryn is also reading, reading, and reading. I have taken her to the library twice and she is loving it...books are her friends, and what great friends to have. When she is not reading or playing, she is creating something...Camryn loves crafts and she loves paper, scissors, tape, and anything else she can use to create something just right. The other day it was all the dixie cups in the bathroom...she created a ton of stuff. Can't say I loved using all the cups, but honestly her creativity was pretty amazing.

* Camryn's medical world...her labs continue to be great! There is no end to our praise about that, we don't take that for granted one bit! In light of her labs looking great her team has decided to wean her meds which has been a step in the right direction. We are thankful for how well Camryn is doing. She is losing much of her steroid weight, which is wonderful...Camryn is looking more and more like herself, yay!

* Jason's projects...we are planning to add on a room to our house. We have a back patio/room that we are going to demo and then officially add it on to our home...we are excited! In light of that we have to figure out some things for our two dogs; so Jason has been busily working on our side yard to create a dog run type area for our dogs to be during construction. We also had a bit of a rough 4th of July weekend...our neighbors love to set off fireworks, much to my disliking. Our dogs get scared out of their minds hearing the "pop, pop, pop". Our dog Sydney who we've had for five years decided this year to jump over our fence into our neighbor's yard while they were having a party...yep, lovely! So we've been trying to figure out ways to keep Sydney in our yard...the final solution is our neighbors, yes the ones who's yard she visited 3 times gave us some lattice screens to use. And thus far, Sydney has stayed home...thankfully!

* Dana's projects...the week before last I was at Camp Curriculum at work. We worked on our curriculum plans for our classes and our WASC visit this coming March. Then last week I worked some more...doing teacher interviews and meeting to work through our school handbooks. So, really officially summer is now...no more work for me until I go back officially in August. I am busily looking online to get ideas for how I would like to decorate our new space...trying to figure out how best to use the furniture we have and such. And I am reading...I have found this summer that reading is something I love to do and most of the time throughout the school year I don't have time. But, so far I've read two books and I just checked out two more from the library...yay!

We are enjoying life...and the life feels normal, we are beyond thankful!

Hope you are enjoying your summer too...