Can you take a number please?

That's about how I am feeling right now. I leave for a little mini vacation with a friend of mine, and it seems like I have taken part in a time warp. I go and sit down today and say to myself, "I'm feeling really guilty for not blogging in a month, and then I sign on today and I see that I am not the only guilty victim. OK, so after getting "the" text from my mother-n-law that read "I don't like to criticize, but it is not nice to get someone hooked on your blog and then just stop blogging!" She told me "the only thing saving you is Facebook" I was needless to say, feeling quite culpable and decided I'd better get back in gear of things.

So you ask, what have I been up to? Well, we have had quite the summer thus far. Nickelodeon Hotel was a great escape..Lots of sun,sun and more sun! Camps out the kazoo, and lots of time with the honey. In the midst of it all, I was inspired to loose wight, so on top of all my summer activities that I have been ambushed with, I have managed to eat extremely well and I started the Atkins diet a month ago, and today I am down 10 lbs! Boy is this diet hard, but when you want something SO bad, I guess you will do whatever it requires to get there! SO..on top of my diet, I have been faithfully exercising and keeping busy and am so excited about my accomplishments, I just had to come on a blog a bit and share it with the world!

My summer is far from winding down..my 3rd cousin flew in today from DC, and she is staying with us for a month and Morgan and Skylar are only a year apart, so it's always good to have her. This next month will be a busy one for all of us, as we continue to do all of the fun things that kids do in the summer, on top of gearing up for the fall football season that both boys will be playing in. Jon will be coaching and I will be team mom. Whew, boy do we have a busy half of year left!

Well It's sure nice to be back on here and able to share a little of what has been going on. I have been doing tons of scrap booking and have actually just finished the boys football albums and I just started my vacation theme next, so I am attacking all of our family vacations starting way back when..It's fun and such a great way to cherish the memories.. How is all of your summers been going out there? Anything you just can't wait to talk about? I am hoping to sit down tonight and catch up on all my bloggers...It's good to be back..I promise I wont take this long off again..Truthfully, it wasn't intended to be this long..time just gets away from you...

Braden told me last week "You know what? You are soooo mean...you are mean as the Hulk...(I didn't respond as usual with this type of behavior) so he sat and pondered a minute and he said, Oh yea and you are quite ridiculous, too! It took a while to digest that one!

Have a great week! Some summer pics of the kids below..

S~