Trying to get back in the groove

It's been entirely too long since I've been able to sit down and spend time blogging. It seems the longer I go without blogging, the harder it is to get back in the groove. I haven't been able to read and/or comment like I have wanted to. My bloglines feeds are overflowing, I doubt I will get to all of them. Sorry.


A little update on our life...

• Our house guests left on Friday. We had three men, a father and his two grown sons, staying with us during the rally. Scott worked with one of the sons when we lived in Utah. We got to be really close to his family before we moved. In fact they are the ones that moved with us when we moved to South Dakota. They unfortunately moved back to Utah after a few months. My kids thought their motorcycles were awesome and were obviously entranced by them. They were quite pleasant, not to mention entertaining, and we enjoyed having them here. Aside from the occasional cigarette butt (ewwwww) I've found in the yard they made for good house guests.
• Megan finally got on board with the whole potty training business. Shortly after I blogged about how hopeless the situation appeared to be, I decided to put my foot down and let her know who really is in charge of this house, and it's not the three year old. :) I haven't bought diapers for a month now. She has done fabulous, even on our trip to Utah. I am happy to say that we are a diaper free household....For-eeeee-ver!
• We have been swimming a lot lately. I bought swim passes at the first of July at first planning on paying for swim lessons. When I realized that we could swim as much as we wanted to for the rest of the summer with swim passes for the same amount of money for two weeks of lessons I opted for the swim passes. The kids have been doing well and have gotten more comfortable in their swimming abilities. Not to mention I have been working on my incredible tan. Hahahaha!
• I have been feeding one of my other addictions lately, that of reading. Thanks to Tori I bought Twilight while I was in Utah. I started it there but had to put it aside while I read Tangled Roots the book for our next book club meeting. While reading that I realized that it was a sequel to Cankered Roots, a book I read over 10 years ago so I had to reread that book again. GG Vandagriff is the author and has quite an interesting history herself. There is another book in this series that I will have to get my hands on. But back to Twilight. Oh my goodness. I am hooked. I can't put it down. My house is suffering, my children are bored, and I can't stop reading it. Luckily I only bought Twilight and not the accompanying two sequels. I'll have to see if my library has them or order them online.
• Our Enrichment Night is a week from today so I have been in anxiety/panic mode for several days now. This time around I was able to delegate more of the responsibilities and that has helped to ease my anxiety level tremendously. We are already trying to figure out what to do for our Freaky Friday (it has become our tradition in our ward to get together on a Friday evening rather than having a Super Saturday, it is a lot of fun staying out late and working on crafts) coming up in October. And then their is Christmas to think about. I am so glad that I am not planning a monthly EN I would probably go insane!

This summer has passed far too quickly. I do look forward to the 'break' that comes when the kids go back to school. I've also really enjoyed this summer with the kids. They are getting older and are more self sufficient therefore making it easier and funner to take places. We still have lots to do before the summer is over. This weekend we are headed to Bismarck North Dakota for our ward temple trip. We decided to make a mini family vacation out of it. I also need to take the kids back to Reptile Gardens . I promised them we would go again.