Summer Vacations

We are planning to go to Ohio to visit my mom's family in June. We haven't been since I was pregnant with Maggie (she's 5 now) so our visit is long overdue. It is sad that I haven't done a better job of keeping in touch with my relations. My mother made sure we visited them once a year while I was growing up, but once she passed away and I moved out of my parents home, there was nothing to ensure that I stayed in contact. I'm looking forward to reconnecting and introducing our children to their only great-grandmother (Daniel was one when he last met her so it will be just like meeting her for the first time again). It's thanks to my gracious Aunt Shirley and Uncle Kenny that this visit is possible. They are letting us stay at their house so we don't have to use a hotel (which we can't afford while we are still doing our debt snowball). It should be a lot of fun if we can get Joshua to enjoy riding in the van.

We also hope to go back to the condo in Perdido Key with the Hipps family in August. It all depends on whether Davis can get off from work (although if he can't I may just have to brave taking the three kids by myself since it was so great last year). Hopefully that works out and we will have two inexpensive family vacations this year. Can't wait!

Gotta love the iPhone

Here is a picture I took with Davis' iPhone. As I mentioned in my previous post, our digital camera is broken, so it was great to be able to capture this moment with the iPhone. We had gotten all the kids ready for bed but we still needed to give Daniel a breathing treatment for his wheezing. We thought we would just keep Joshua up until the treatment was done (10 minutes), but the hum of the machine put him to sleep. It was too precious and I was so glad that we were able to get a picture of it.

Blogging without pictures

As a novice blogger I rely heavily on pictures (mainly of my children)to make my posts interesting. Frankly, I'm not that great of a writer (it was always very difficult for me to reach minimum page requirements in English class) so it helps to have a visual. Unfortunately, I have discovered that my digital camera isn't working because the battery is broken (i.e. it won't charge anymore). I hope that we will have the money to replace it next month, only our budgeting meeting will tell. Thus, the lack of blogging lately (for me, I don't know what Davis' excuse is).