Our baby birds

We have been watching a killdeer in our driveway, waiting for her eggs to hatch. Our next door neighbors have kids that are, shall we say, not the best behaved. They have thrown rocks at her, taken one of the eggs, (David chased him down and put it back) and generally disturbed her. I was starting to get really ticked off. What possesses some kids to just be so dang mean? I mean honestly, the birds nest was on my property and these kids think they can just come on over and have at it? But I digress...

Yesterday evening the kids came in all excited because they saw the babies! We went out and saw that two of the eggs had hatched. The shells were still in their tiny little fuzz. One egg remained, the one that was taken, and we were worried it wouldn't hatch. But it hatched this morning. We were so excited! They were running all over the yard. So cute!

Here comes summer vacation

(My flower bed, all planted!)

(What the kids are doing first day of vacation; playing the Wii and talking on the phone!)

No more classes, no more books, no more teacher's dirty looks! Now they'll just come from me!

The first week of summer vacation is here. What are all of you going to do with your children this summer? We are going to be missing our daddy and husband. He will be in Tennessee for most of the summer working on the new shipping facility there. Hopefully we might get to go in July sometime, but mostly it will be just me and the kids hanging together here.

First we'll get swimming lessons out of the way, then comes Girl's Camp, then the Fourth of July, and then summer is halfway over! And I don't think the sun has even came out yet!

I did get my flowers planted, though. And my garden is starting to sprout! So bring it on, I'm ready!