Summer 2009

Summer 2009

It's been a nice summer this year with our boys. We have done lots of stuff with the boys, from going to Oklahoma, Sea World San Antonio Texas and just little weekend trips here and there. I enjoy doing anything with my boys and hubby Brad. Even just playing in our back yard has been a lot of fun this year. I enjoye those days the most!! Sasha has been going to the YMCA for the summer program and has taken swimming lessons for three 2 week sessions. Guess what?? Now he can swim really good. I'm amazed now when we are in the pool. I still can't believe he can swim on his own without holdoing onto his momma. He didn't wear a life jacket while swimming at the Sea World Lost Lagoon Water Park. While attending the YMCA summer program, he has gone swimming once a week, gone to most of the city parks and also to the museums here in town. He has enjoyed every moment of the time spent at the YMCA. He has also added a few more boys and girls to his "friends list". He has lots of friends. He will be starting 1st grade in just a few more weeks and he is very excited about that.

Dimitry is now enjoying the water too. He will actually let go of you while in the pool as long as he has a life jacket on. Dimitry has enjoyed his Day Care and just last week started his new class for the year with the 2 year olds. He is going to love Mrs. Elva. Mrs. Elva was Sasha's first teacher at the Day Care. He learned a lot from her class and I'm sure Dimitry will as well.

As far as the family, we have done a lot this year. We got a new roof that was so much needed. We got new Windows throughout the whole house. We have been on the Dave Ramsey Saving Plan and our window purchase was our first big purchase with cash on the Dave Ramsey plan. We are so enjoying saving money and at the same time having money to spend without using Credit Cards. We have taught Sasha and Dimitry this year to say that Credit Cards are "BAD". We dug up some bushes that have been at our house since we bought it 15 years ago. It really looks good without the bushes although I miss them at times.

The boy's vegetable garden is doing good. We have picked peppers and today picked out first tomato off the plant. We got a late start because the weather this year was cold up unitl the middle of May. So we didn't plant the garden until then. Last year it started out being Sasha's garden, then this year it's more Dimitry's garden. I'm the paid gardener but the funny thing is I don't get paid. I work in the garden as much as I can to keep the grass from over growing. I wish I could spend more time working in it but just don't have the time. But I think the garden is doing pretty good. Our dog Casey layed on one pepper plant, but I was able to save it. I pulled off the broken part and the rest of the plant is still alive.

We have gotten a lot of rain the last month, so our grass is really green and the garden is really loving all this rain.

Like I say all the time, God has been good to us and has blessed Brad and I with 2 wonderful boys. We couldn't ask for any better boys.

God Bless you and may he bless you like he has blessed us this summer!!