Wednesday

Summer is a-comin'! I don't know who is more excited, me or the kids. It's so funny because nothing technically will change much for us. Lydia does a little preschool co-op that ends next week, and I've been doing some babysitting that will probably trickle off into the summer. But as far as everything else goes - it will all be the same stuff.

Except sun!  And swimming. And popsicles outside on the grass. And shorts, and sandals, and eating dinner outside!

Yes. I'm really really really excited.

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I have so many things to blog about, but then I sit down and can't think of a single flowing thought. So here's a list of things I'm thinking about today:

-Babysitters. We're so blessed to be surrounded by so many willing babysitters (friends and family). It seems like this is such a busy time of year for everyone. But literally, just this week, we need a babysitter almost every night. Tonight my sister Jenna is letting us drop our kids off at her house while David and I go to dinner with one of the partners from David's firm. Tomorrow, my brother Matthew is watching the kids because I have a meeting that evening and David has a work event that goes until late at night.  Friday our good friends, the Shields, are watching them while we go to the temple for our babysitting swap night. Saturday we have tickets to Jane Eyre at Hale Center Theater and my sister Melissa is coming to watch Lydia and Austin at our house. (It's going to be a busy rest of the week!) Then next week is our anniversary and David's sister Wendy said she would babysit, and just the past couple weeks his sister Amy watched the kids for hours and hours while we went van shopping. Whew! I'm so incredible grateful for these wonderful people who are willing to play with Lydia and Austin and take such good care of them for us.

-Window Seat. When we built our home, we bumped out the window/wall in our stairway so that we could build a window seat. After 3 years of living here - we are finally making it happen! Here's hoping that in the next month it will be done. I can't wait!

-I still haven't blogged about Lydia's birthday or her turning four. (You better bet that when I post them, I'm going to back post them for when they belong - but this is my honesty post.) I really should be working on that instead of this random post. But, really, how did my little girl turn four? She tells everyone that she is four - almost five. She's embraced it, that's for certain.

Happy Wednesday!