Here I am!

So I have been reading everyone elses blog for so long I finally decided to cross over to the blog world. It will be nice to have a place to reflect.

Today the kids and I are home cleaning for the 4th tomorrow. We are having our family picnic here as we do every year. That all started in July of 2004 when we invited everyone over for the holiday but also to announce we were expecting a baby! Hard to believe that was 5 years ago. Anyway we found out on June 29th and only told our 18 month neice Madelyn who was here while her parents were our celebrating their anniversary. It was a long 5 days we had to wait to tell everyone else. Anyway today the boys and Madelyn are running around the backyard while Im getting stuff picked up and making grocery lists for tomorrow. It is so nice everyone lives so close and we can all spend the day together . The boys just love playing with their cousins. Im undecided about fireworks. We went last weekend and other then the boys complained they were loud they did enjoy them but they werent overly excited either. I guess we will see if any one else is going and how tired everyone is. Dave is about to start a big stretch of crazy work hours soon we need to enjoy as much family time as we can right now. Happy 4th of July everyone!