I miss blogging ...

I've realized in looking back over old blog posts how much I miss blogging about family events ... not even big events, just normal family times and how fun it is to look back. I want to be better about this again!

TJ and Abby are back to school now. Abby to 3rd grade, and TJ to 8th grade. So hard to believe he'll head to high school next year. And Drew has about 2 weeks until he heads back for his senior year of college. Two big milestones for us in May, 2012 ... the 8th grade promotion for TJ, and college graduation for Drew!

Last weekend we went to Kenosha and got a great start on getting Drew settled into his new apartment for the school year. It's really nice, and he's looking forward to the extra space and the freedoms of leaving the dorm and working about 24/7 as an RA. He saved us several thousand dollars the past two years working hard as an RA and scoring a free room ... he's good like that!

Part of our moving weekend adventure included our first trip to an IKEA store. I was completely ignorant of the shopping experience there and expected something like a super-sized box store ... not the THREE floors of shopping we found! haha We were total tourists, even fascinated by the escalator reserved just for shopping carts to ride solo from level to level ... so of course that warranted a couple of pictures, haha


On the drive home, we ran into torrential rain storms that made driving interesting ... and then once the storm cleared, we were treated to a beautiful double rainbow! Abby was sleeping so I had to take a picture to show her later.

Drew is working full-time at the job he had in high school, and has returned to the past 3 summers. He'll stay on there until the end of August, and head back to Carthage on Labor Day weekend. It has been great to have him home for a few weeks after his trip to Shanghai. He's such a confident, independent 21 year old. We're proud of him!