I am entirely past the point of embarassed, and have now moved into the realm of "I'm pregnant and seem to have lost my ability to multitask while chubby." This is all, of course, in reference to excatly how long it's taken me to blog since my last post. I'm convinced, though, that my best excuse for this is because you would think since the end of May until now that the weather would have officially lapsed into the lazy days of summer and we'd all be in shorts by now. Oh no...this is not so. We had sleeting rain at my house yesterday, so you see! It's as if no time at all has passed seeing that on the day of Trin's graduation it was cold and rainy, too!

At the expense of my readers, I'm just simply going to post a bunch of pictures of my silly little people to help me summarize what we've been up to the last month. To preface these, though, I'll leave you with a little bit of an explanation. The end of May we spent a few days in Phoenix for Scott's (Spencer's little bro's) high school graduation, but managed to squeeze in some pool time, seeing some much missed friends and fam (sigh), and shopping at my favorite outlet store for kids' clothes.

We celebrated Mac's second birthday on the second of June. I can't believe my little man is so big! To hear him talk, though, you wouldn't be surprised. It was a laid back, totally fantastic day. We spent several hours at Thanksgiving Point Barn (Mac was given the choice between here and the zoo) riding ponies and feeding the animals. We enjoyed some lunch and birthday ice cream, and then home for presents. He TOTALLY enjoyed himself...except now he asks to open birthday presents at least twice daily.

Other than that, we've just had a steady stream of visitors, which is great, but I STILL don't have my house entirely put together, and I can't get past feeling embarrassed to walk anyone through this perpetual work-in-progress.

And now the pics!

Busy day...week...life!

So, I love having house guests, and am flattered that people are comfortable staying with us...but I'm beggining to wonder why we couldn't pay people to come and see us in Phoenix, but we see friends and fam atleast once a month here? Is it because Spenc just sweat more in AZ or something? This is just one of my theories.
Anyway, Spencer was gone in beautiful, exotic Pocatello for a few days over the weekend, and returned with my aunt and uncle who were able to stay for a few days. My dad has also been hanging out getting hugs from the kiddos, and pretending to work on his house in between times.
Today was a busy day, but so much fun! Trin had her preschool graduation, and it is now what the papers are calling the social even of the season! She thought she was super cool in her cap and gown. Her class of five was the smallest at the school, so each of the kids was able to do more in their little 30 minute ceremony. Triniti read aloud a 1st grade level Hello Kitty book, and sang the "Five Jive" all by herself. I was nervous that she would be shy doing the song because she refused to practice it at home, but she did fantastic! I must admit, though, the highlight performance came from my very loud son that insisted on asking for "nonuts, pease" every thirty seconds of the entire presentation. He had overheard earlier this morning that there would be donuts and juice, and is not one to soon forget about anything jelly filled.

Just taking some time...

The kiddos are in bed, the laundry is mid-cycle, and game five of the Laker game is only half way through the first quarter (no need to get worked up yet), so I wanted to take a few minutes to just be grateful. For those of you disappointed at finding several paragraphs of text and no pictures, I have to apologize. The obvious disconnect has been the fact that the camera is inside the house, and the charger is in my husband's car...an inconceivable distance away in the garage. I promise I'll get to it!

I had a wonderful Mother's Day, though, and more for my own benefit I wanted to reflect on some of my many small and simple blessings. My latest joy has been to listen to Mac counting. He loves to count anything and everything, and when this is done in his little version of toddlerese, it's totally cute! He does 1-10 just perfectly, and then adds a twelve, thirteen, seventeen, and twenty in for good measure. My favorite is when he's counting snacks (whether it be raisins, goldfish, or the like) and he gets to ten, he'll sometimes call out "ready or not here I come!" Meals are never boring in my house! I also love the "good morning mommy, good morning sunshine" greetings in the mornings, and the random "I lub you mommy" accompanied by the sweetest little boy hugs you've ever seen! I adore both my children, but I totally have a crush on my little man. (Big news!!! Mac spent his first night with his crib converted into a toddler bed and didn't get out once! He loves his big boy bed!)

Trin never ceases to amaze me. Her new favorite phrase is "I suppose." Tonight she "supposed" that she would try a mozzarella stick as long as it didn't have any sauce. We've had some listening issues the past couple of days, but she has such a sweet, tender little heart. She is the most thoughtful little girl I know. She's constantly coming up with ideas that she thinks Mac would love, saving part of her school treat for him on the ride home, drawing me pictures, or even asking to help around the house.

I wouldn't have either of these amazing little people without my sweet husband. I love to watch him with our kiddos. They adore him, and there aren't many dads out there that would risk life and limb to take his kids to Chuck E Cheese's for the sake of having a fun family night out.

I've really been struggling the last couple of weeks because I've been really tired and there are a lot of days that I feel like I've cheated my family in some capacity...whether it's feeling like I didn't have the kids out and active, or didn't cook what I had planned. I'm sure these sound like really petty things, but because I love them all so much, I have trouble coming to terms with shortcomings because they deserve the best! Wow, I'm hormonal! In short, I just hope that I show and remind them enough just how much I love and adore them.

Blah...I gotta get some pics taken so I have something else to fill my blog space!