It is June 18th and I cannot believe I have not blogged since April! Have I/we been that busy? I'm not sure I recall May in any great detail. There was Memorial Day weekend of course, that was nice. We smoked some beef and pork and grilled some dogs and burgers and I made homemade ice cream and key lime pie.

After finally deciding on A Beka for 7th-12th grade for Jason and after doing 3ish weeks of 6th grade(from them)it crossed my mind that he needed to get on the A Beka schedule. They begin right around Labor Day and end right before Memorial Day. We certainly are not used to this as we've been taking July off, December off, plus a week for Thanksgiving and a week in March. We are taking the entire summer off. We will start back up when they do the beginning of September. We will have most of Thanksgiving week off as they have it off and two weeks for Christmas and then a week in the spring.

Speaking of summer vacation, it's been nice, really nice in most ways. I am finished putting primer in the downstairs laundry room/bathroom and am ready to start painting. Once I'm done in there I hope to tackle our front room. Not changing it's color, really, just touching up and redoing the border. I've finished a book and started another which is nice. Jason just finished book 3 of the Harry Potter series and is starting book 4. We're sleeping til 8:00ish which is wonderful! I think Avery enjoys having more attention and having me not tell her no, we're in the middle of school right now.

Pretty sure everyone knows of the fire/fires going on in our state. Thankfully one is 100% contained and the one in our back yard so to speak is at 85% containment.

Hopefully we will be going to Larkspur one weekend soon to check out the festival there. July 4th is of course coming up as well and we have tickets to a ballgame. We do plan to make it up to the Denver Zoo one Saturday as well. No plans for any major events, such as travel. Just things inside our state this year.

Now it's time for some afternoon reading. I choose to pretend that there is no laundry to be done....:)