dream board

Thank you to my sister-in-law, Erin for telling me how to make this awesome photo board! It turned out great and I am excited to hang it up! It turned out Huge! The board part is 2'x3' not including the frame! It's actually going to be our "dream board" on which we put pictures of things we love and things we want. It'll act as a physical reminder to "put it out there" as it were :) I think I'm going to hang it above our bed. So I'd love to know what you think!

what does this dream mean?

I was going back to college. Cody and the kids brought me up to my dorm room. I was sad to be leaving them, and as I unpacked it all came flooding back. After all I used to do this twice a year. Dorms, apartments, houses, townhomes... moving in, moving out, etc. Although the memory was sweetened with time, I didn't know if I really wanted to be doing it again.

My dorm room was tiny, of course, and I was sharing it with some guy from college I didn't necessarily like. I needed everything. Laundry basket, garbage can, everything. In my bed, I realized the far wall of the room was shared from the other side with a dog kennel. I realized this when the lights went out and the room appeared like some weird two way mirror to show 20 dogs in cages. They were silent. I thought, how will I sleep with all the noise they are going to be making?

I missed my family. The characters were a conglomeration of characters from medical shows I've watched over the years. Perhaps I went back to med-school. There was JD from scrubs, Abbi Lockheart from ER, Avery - the black guy with pretty eyes from Grey's Anatomy...

I went out with my friends (characters) to explore the dorm. We got into an elevator that was acting funny. It brought us to the wrong floor. The floor was gutted and had all these punching bags and boxing rings set up. I was suddenly feeling overwhelmed and tore open my hand punching a huge punching bag. Afterward, I felt spent and slightly embarrassed and Avery told me don't worry about it, that's what this place was there for.

We went to get back on the elevator. The doors opened and it started moving up slowly, we almost jumped on and suddenly it plummeted, sparking, screeching, out of sight 50 stories down. I fell back crying, yelling we almost got on! Someone else said we WERE on it a minute ago!

I woke up to Finn crying.

June & the 4th

What a crazy June and what a fun first weekend of July we've had!

We've finally finished swimming lessons. The kids loved it this year, they both did extremely well. For me, it was great. Somewhat sad as it will most likely be my last year of "mommy & me" classes, but also a relief to be finished. Somehow it felt like I got absolutely nothing done for 2 weeks straight which is enough to drive me bonkers.

Finn is in the middle of his "Rookie" season of baseball. It is like a pre-tee-ball deal where they get the gist of the game, work on skills like batting and throwing, and have fun little games where they play all the high-school kids who coach them. He is really enjoying it. I was wondering how he would do with baseball as compared with soccer. He did enjoy soccer, he loved practices where we worked on drills. When it came time to play games, however, he didn't love that as much. My theory is with drills, everyone gets a turn. In a game, you really have to get in there and go for the ball, which is not really his style.

I did wonder how he would do with a more individualized sport such as baseball. I remember as a kid not really loving softball when it was my turn to bat, too much of a spotlight on me or something (which is funny when you consider how much I loved the spotlight later on when doing theatre. I guess it was just my younger age). But he is really loving it, so I am glad about that!

Also in June, we went camping. The kids have been sleeping together in Finn's room for a couple of months now, so they did absolutely perfectly on our trip. They had a wonderful time. We went up on a Friday and stayed until Sunday. Then Jeff, Kelly & their son Spencer joined us on Saturday. The kids had an absolute blast. We can't wait to go again!

As the 4th of July fell on a Sunday this year, no one in Utah seemed to know how to handle this as far as fireworks and celebrations. Half the cities did their fireworks Saturday and the other half on Monday, so we had an extra-long weekend. Our friend Levi stopped by on Friday and stayed with us all weekend until Monday afternoon. What a fun, relaxing weekend we had! The only bad part was that both kids were sick all weekend, but they were still in high spirits. Especially because Levi brought his dog, Rogue. He is a Mastiff/Rottweiler mix, so he is not little! What a good boy he was! The kids adored him.

On Saturday we went out to dinner downtown and went to watch fireworks up with Grandma Jean. On Sunday, we went for a lovely 2 hour bike ride along the river through Ogden then went to eat lunch at the Oaks in Ogden canyon. Once it got dark, the kids lit some sparklers. I had a great idea to make a tiny hole in the bottom of a plastic cup for the kids to hold the sparklers with (see picture). That way, they wouldn't burn their hands. I thought it was a brilliant idea. Cody called me the safety patrol. Ha ha.


Later this month, the kids & I are looking forward to going to Chicago to visit with Nana, Papa, & my sister's family. We can't wait! But there is a lot I hope to get done before then...

I hope everyone has had as wonderful a holiday weekend as we did. Love to all!