June 9: First day at Camp Duncan

The weather is certainly not the greatest, but at least there is no threat of thunderstorms or tornados like we've been having the last 3 days.
Kaiky and Kyle were very excited this morning to start camp. Their friend, Josie, is also enrolled at Camp Duncan in Ingleside, IL.

June 6: Not just D-Day anymore!

It was the last day of school for both kids, Kaiky's kindergarten graduation and Bob and my 10th year anniversary!
This year, we were so lucky to have our dear friend, Karen, as not only our "sitter", but the kids' personal bus driver too! She really was awesome...picking up the kids in the bus, picking up Kaiky after kindergarten and then Cori and Kyle, too, after school in the afternoon. We don't know what next year will bring, but we sure appreciated it this year!
Mrs. Morris put on a very nice graduation ceremony for Kaiky's class and I was so excited to sit in the front row, right in front of Kaiky to watch her perform. Well, the little stinker would NOT look at me, Grandma or the camera the entire time! I
finally had to tear her hands off her face when we tried to get a last shot out on the playground. Congratulations, Kaiky on becoming a first grader!

Here we go! Last day of school!

Cori and Karen ready to go!

I'm a first grader now!

Kaiky and Mrs. Morris


"C'mon Kait! Just ONE picture, please!"

Flowers

Here are the flowers along the front walk. It only took 4 years to get them to this point where I think I like them. I've tried a bunch of different things here, and right now I think I'm happy and will leave them as-is.
Back row: Oriental lilies and Asiatic lilies (not yet blooming), Salvia (purple) and some Maiden grass (that isn't quite tall enough to see yet).
Front row: Dianthus cheddar pinks - and you can see where I ran out of money on those one year, and the next year planted (like an idiot) the red Dianthus. Both types are nice, but I'd rather have one type all the way down.
Oh yeah, and there's some Seedum in the middle - which was a dumb move because it goes with nothing, but the texture variance is nice, I guess. And to top it off, there are still a few Strawberry plants producing berries in there. Kaiky likes to hunt around and pick them.

Weekend fun: May 31-June 1

What a beautiful weekend! All of the family played a lot of baseball, and spent pretty much the whole weekend outdoors. We took the top off Bob's new jeep, had some hot dogs at Big Jack's, set up the batting cage and bought a pitching machine. The kids had a blast!

The kids LOVE riding in the jeep!


Kyle LOVES Big Jack's cheese fries. "They remind me of Fry Island (Island Fries) at Key West," says Kyle.


Kyle and Daddy try out the new pitching machine and batting cage. You can actually see the ball in the air!