I'm baaaaaaaaack!!!!!!!

I know I have been greatly missed!!!! And you all are just dying to hear all the latest and exciting news. I am not so sure there is anything exciting but I will update all the same cause I didn't want everyone sending 911 out after cause I have been missing!!

Lets see....what has been going on.....

There is the typical, after funeral things to handle like wills, bank accounts, bills, etc. But that is almost done and so life is moving ahead in that direction.

Delaney has graduated from her beginner swim class to the next level. She is going to be an "eel" in a few weeks!!! The teacher said she is "advanced" and needs more instruction. Delaney does many strokes, dives, swims on her own her without a floatie, and can swim under the water now.....which the teacher doesn't even know most of that cause they are still in the floatie and blowing bubbles stage in the class. But I guess she could tell...or she just wants to get rid of my daredevil.....and has moved her on. She begins her new class after we return from vacation the 1st week in Sept. Most that Delaney knows and can do she has picked up from her siblings or from sitting on the side of the YMCA pool and watching the older swim team class next to her while she awaits her turn to blow bubbles!

Ryan went this week to get some back to school clothes and shocked me so much that I about had a heartattack right there in Boscovs Young Mens section! He picked out more older, college student kinda clothes. More stylish jeans and printed tee with button down over shirts, etc. Clothes I have been trying to point him too for a few years now. Ryan might have been younger but his body is huge! And he needed to advance past the torn and bagging tees and jeans to something more suited to his body. BUT what did dorky mom know?! So, let's just say that mom had to do some gloating right there in the middle of the Young Mens section too. A little "I told you so" never hurt any child! AND he got his hair highlighted and trimmed. The boy is ready. Now sure if it is more ready for girls rather than school but he is ready all the same! And looks nice too!

Megan is going today for her back to school clothes. She has just been "hanging". And texting. And sleeping in. And texting. And swimming. Did I mention texting??

And we are all eyeing down the calendar for a much needed vacation. In a way I cannot wait. And in a way I can cause once that vacation is over I won't see another break for a YEAR! And right after we return, school, along with all that it brings with it, comes and that means soccer prac, back to school nights, Church activities, trips to Staples for that must have notebook that the teacher wants (and I won't be able to find!!!) and busy busy busy. And I am thinking I love my lazy summer days and don't want that to change! *sigh* But it is coming. With each new waking day another day goes by and it is coming.

Last weekend we went to Hershey Park. That was a day to remember. It had to be the HOTTEST and BUSIEST day in Hershey history! People packed that park almost shoulder to shoulder and I have to say, that had I been alone, I would have left. BUT I seriously doubt the kids would have gone for that and so I plugged on and ate my bitter words to rude people that do things like push a child out of the way to get that pack of must-have ketchup or the person that stops in front of you while you are pushing a heavy stroller up a hill and then they refuse to move!! I smiled and tried to make the best of it while sweat dripped down my face and the site of a fountain looked like an Oasis. I figured that my goal would be to find some place in the park that had something chocolate and that would at least make my day. Hershey, after all, should = chocolate. Right? Wrong! There was not a place in that park that sold anything Hershey....or chocolate....other than the gift shop on your way out. Where was my chocolate sundae, my chocolate covered strawberries, my chocolate cake dripping with fudge??????? I hunted and it was nowhere to be found! HOW does a park have the nerve to use a famous chocolate name and offer nothing chocolate? There has to be something morally and illegally wrong with that!! I will have to write a letter of complaint!

Here is some pics.......
Delaney getting sized up for the rides





I should have taken more pics. I know that. But it was hard trying to fight the depression taking over after my lack of chocolate!