So I have an incredibly talented husband who always seems to surprise me with the amount of projects he can take on at one time.  Furthermore, he always finishes them!  Lately, our website has become another of his pet projects and now it is done!  Austin designed and built our new website design.  I love it and I hope you will too.  Maybe it will make us better blog owners… we will see.

For the 4th of July Austin and I spent the weekend at my parents.  It was a jam packed! On Saturday all the girls went butterfly hunting, including Liz and myself (never too old to hunt butterflies).  Surprisingly we caught 14 butterflies! We may have caught the same one twice on a few occasions… apparently butterflies don’t learn very quickly…  Even Emily caught one; she was beyond ecstatic.  After taking a few photos with the butterflies we let them go so next year we can do it all over again!  I don’t have those photos yet but I will be sure to put them up soon.

The rest of the weekend consisted mostly of swimming, eating, and hanging out.  On Sunday I spent a good portion of the day finishing up the two 4th of July dresses I made for Katie and Emily.  The girls looked so adorable, which isn’t that hard for them.  They enjoyed dancing around in their new dressing while singing songs they made up about how much they love America.  It was beyond cute!

The 4th was full of FIREWORKS!!  One of my favorite things about my hometown is that it is one of the few that still allow fireworks and we made sure to take full advantage! In fact we were up until 11:30 setting them all off.  We did a synchronized dance with sparklers (yes we are that ridiculous), kicked around smoke balls, and jumped over these little fire crackle snakes.  My little sister Martha almost set herself on fire… apparently screaming and waving your arms doesn’t  mean immediate danger to her…but other than that there was no mishaps. The weekend was a blast, quite literally!

We’ve had so much going on lately to blog about, but the irony is that the more blog worthy events in your life, the less time you have to blog about them! We spent a wonderful weekend at Rachel’s parents’ house celebrating my birthday and Father’s day. Rachel’s parents bought me a hatchet (we’ve got a fireplace in our new apartment but the bundles of wood don’t come with kindling). I got money from my parents and grandparents (for my big summer computer project, the details are a bit geeky so I’ll spare you).

Of course I can’t forget the camera which allowed me to take all these wonderful photos. Rachel bought me a Sony point and shoot camera since we’ve been talking about getting a one for a while. We have a wonderful SLR camera but it’s a bit unwieldy and I wanted something that would fit in my pocket. Also, we were getting tired of handing it to people who couldn’t figure out how to use it and we have lots of blurry photos of the two of us.

School is out! I finished my MBA career with a bang. I had two weekends of almost non-stop homework (with a day devoted to Emily and the Wild Animal Park) and a full week of homework. A fourteen page term paper, 9 page final exam, and a day spent on a business simulation and then it was finished.

But, before all that we had Easter! My parents came down Thursday night and hung out with Rachel on Friday while I worked since she had Good Friday off. On Saturday we drove up to Huntington and stayed the night with my parents before the rest of Rachel’s family came and joined us on Sunday for Easter. Somehow we managed to not take many photos but here are two of the girls looking for Easter Eggs.