A LONG TIME!!!

I have officially missed the ENTIRE month on June! But in my defense I was in the middle of an intense history class. In class from 8:30-3:30 every day for three weeks! I do not remember college classes being as hard as that. We had about 2-3 hours of homework every night, quizzes every hour in the morning, projects, etc.
So, I think I will post pictures & a short description of the things that did happen during the last month to catch up. In chronological order:

This was a tulip that we planted last fall and had been patiently waiting to come up. However, about a month before the gardeners were edging and decided to edge our flower! We were so upset. But the flower regrew...like this!

Nikh is now able to stand up in her crib all by herself AND crawl. Watch out, she is pretty mobile now. It is kind of funny to watch her crawl. Her poor little legs get tired of holding herself up and she slides to her tummy to commando crawl the rest of the way.

One day as we were barbecuing the sprinklers came on! So the kids decided to get on their swimming suits and run through them. Of course when they turned off they were sad so we turned on the hose with the sprinkler. It was fun!

Branden's Birthday came next. We were treated to Tucano's by Josh and MaKayla. It was so yummy. I had stopped feeding Nikh so I was able to eat anything I wanted! They even sang to Branden. Though Nikh was not excited about that part. He was a really good sport about it too! After that, we went shopping at the Gateway. Branden got many items of clothing. Happy 30th my Sweetheart!

Father's Day was next, and to be completely honest we did not really do anything.

Sweetheart, I know we did not do much, but I do want to say what a wonderful daddy you are to our children. I know that staying at home with them during the day is not all peaches 'n cream, but you are good to them and they are lucky to have you there instead of going to day care. Thank you so much for giving me three absolutely beautiful children! We love you.

Last but not least, Ember went to a pediatric eye specialist. We had a feeling that she would need glasses after we went to her 5 year Dr. appointment and she did poorly on the eye exam part. They told us to wait 6 months, but I refuse to let her start school not being able to see. So, after going up to Primary Children's Opthamology Department we found out that, yes, Ember needs glasses. She is 20/50 in one eye and 20/60 in the other. 

After my long day at class, I took Ember to find some glasses. The short story: we went to 3 stores before finding the right pair. Lenscrafters' kids glasses are always 50% off and they can have them done in an hour! The result:

Well, that is pretty much it. After all of that, I passed my class and got 6 college credit hours for it (yeah in 3 weeks!). On the pretest I got 38%! And I improved up to a 72%! Woo Hoo!