I'm a slacker!

So, i know, i haven't haven't updated in forever again! I am just so busy and trying to limit to computer time so that i am more productive these days. ;)

We have a lot going on and lot's of pictures to post. Up until about easter...my camera won't take pictures anymore, it just stopped right after i took pics of kiddos with their baskets. ;( So, that is on our list to get SOON.

We are getting a killer tax return! Woo hoo! We have already come up with THOUSANDS of things to do with it, but are sticking to our original plan, from before we knew how much we were getting back! We are keeping out $500 to do some more food storage and then we are paying the rest, yes ALL OF IT off to our 2nd mortgage debt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are tired of buying things we want NOW and then hating ourselves later for not paying off debt. So we are really doing it this time...if i keep paying piano money to the loan and then if we get a good return next year and our saving stays where it is at...then we will pay a large chunk next year too. We are hoping to have it paid off in two years!!! This tax return helped us in our goal MORE than you can understand! So excited to be out of debt for everything besides the house! Hooray!

We have a crazy summer coming up. I have girls camp in 5 weeks...and they say we will be camping in the snow? I just think that's wrong...just wrong. So pray and hope like we are that they change the location. ;) We are countries and i ahve been working on lining up penpals for our YW with YW from leeds, England. It should all be done by next week, so i hope the girls enjoy this experience.

My brother goes on his mission on may 27th! To England!!! He goes straight to the London, England MTC. His farewell is the weekend before. So we are obviously going up for that. Then I have girls camp, then wilson reunion, then youth conference, then my class reunion i am in charge of and then school starts for the kids again! How wrong is that, for summer to already feel like it will go by so quickly?!?!?! I must enjoy every minute though...as D and C will both be in school this year and i will just have Baby J home. That will be weird.

I hope to run some kind of race this summer and my plans for the 1/2 didn't work out, since i got sick for like 2 monhts! But i am bound to do something.

We planted turnips, beets, carrots, eggplant, tomatoes, green beans, lettuce and spinach in our garden and all are doing well. Little buggers were eating all of my beet green off, so i saved what i could by covering them with quart jars. Brad laughed at me at first, but now he not anymore, they lived and are thriving! I planted a second crop though since i lost so many.

We LOVE LOVE LOVE our grass in the backyard!

The kids, this last weekend did a "Tuff Kids" bike ride. D did 2 miles with dad and C did the safety course like 25 times and then we went around a track 2x. they both had so much fun. The event was free and then they got a free shirt, free $20 helmet, and an ice cream cone at the end of their riding. they loved it and we are doing it again next year. maybe mom will try to ride a bike next time, even though she really dispised bike riding. ;)

Of course i don't have many pics as our camera is dying. But i did get 1 of D and brad's mom took some of them at her house after the fact.

Well, i will get some pics on here soon and hopefully a new camera soon so i can have pics of these fun times.