What Is Going On?

Ok, I know it's been awhile since I have blogged (with the exception of the last post), but I have good reasons. Things have been super busy with work ending and summer starting and helping out at Forest Home and babysitting... It's been crazy, but let's see if I can't catch you up on what's going on...

Last weekend (I mean two weekends ago... not yesterday's weekend but the weekend before that) was my last weekend working for the summer. The kids graduated on Thursday and they all went home (some to stay for the summer and some only for a couple weeks before returning for summer camp). The weekend was kinda stressful as most of the kids were all ready to be done. We did our normal Santa Barbara State Street trip to end out the year. Weekends were fun and I am looking forward to working them again next year (but I am super pumped to have them off for the summer... too bad there is not Community...). So, graduation is always a fun time for the kids and for the teachers. I really like our graduations because they are not too long and they give out a ton of really fun awards. The best part, I have to admit, about graduation is shopping through lost and found after the kids leave. There wasn't as much stuff as last year, but I did find some cool things (well, some of them weren't actually lost and found but I had fun taking pictures of them...).

Monday I hosted again at Forest Home. This group was a little strange because they had already been at camp for a couple of days and I was taking over for the other host... It was just weird coming in on an already established group... Youth group ended this week which is sad, but just in time for me to be way busy.

Friday I went over to watch my boys for the weekend. Mason has made so much progress (he is walking, signing, sort of communicating - without words -) and Caden is a giant! There is seriously like a 7 lb difference between the two of them. But watching them was fun and I am hoping to do it a couple more weekends this summer.

On a more future note, tomorrow I am heading out on a road-trip with my mom and my cousin. We are working our way up to Sacramento to visit my tia and my cousin (he is graduating this Friday). We don't have any really set plans other than we are driving up the 1 and stopping at a campsite for the night around Monterey. We were able to score a couple of free tickets to the Monterey Bay Aquarium which I am super excited about!!! We might stop and a friend's house on the other side of Sacramento for another night and finally end up at my tia's house maybe around Thursday (in case you aren't familiar with the lay-out of California, driving straight through to my tia's house would maybe take 6 hours, but we wanted to make a trip out of it so we are stopping here and there along the way). I am really excited to get to spend some quality time with mi madre this week! I am going to try and barge back Saturday night so I should be at church on Sunday...

I have already started a ton of planning and scheduling for summer camp. Our meetings start on the 16th, but I will probably start really working hard around the 9th... I know it sounds pretty busy, but I love this time of the year... I love having crazy schedules but still making things work... So, yeah... that's what's going on...