Exhausted

It has been a month since I have last been here.  Yes, a month.  So much has happened in this month.  Let me see if I can catch you up.

14 Years!  Yes, my husband and I celebrated our anniversary last month.  My husband planned a night away for us.  It is unfortunate that we are so busy with kid activities that we left late on Saturday evening and had to come back early on Sunday.   

It was a little comical.  A little while after we left the house, we got a call that one of our smoke detectors was beeping.  I have asked my husband to make it a point to change the batteries every 6 months.  We called a neighbor who changed it for us. 

We checked into a great bed and breakfast.  We did a little walking around.  Well, more than a little as my husband made me hoof it to the restaurant for dinner.  It worked out because I ate way too much.  It was a bit of a walk but a good way to let it digest a bit. 

I turned my phone off at night because I didn't want to hear the ding as emails came in.  I did happen to look at it in the morning and noticed I had a missed call but did not think about it.  Later on I found out that one of the boys opened the door to let the dog out and the alarm went off.  So they tried to call the house, then us and then our neighbor.  It worked out, thank goodness, the police did not show up. 

Next year, yes, there will be a next time, decided to keep him another year, I suggested we do a trip after basketball ends and before baseball starts. 

Baseball!  We are in full swing.  E and Jay have 2 practices a week and a game on Thursdays and a double header on Sundays.  Tee has games on Thursdays and Saturdays.  Thursdays can be tricky trying to get the older boys to an away game and get back in time for Tee's game.  The older boys' team is doing well. 

I organized a Flapjack fundraiser for the boy's baseball team.  Kudos to Applebee's for giving back to the community.  We sell tickets to friends and family....well more friends for us.  Our friends come to the restaurant on our assigned day and they get served by one of the boys.  Of course, parents have to help in the kitchen with getting food on the plates.  It was a nice time and a good way to raise some money.

Auction! My friend and I have worked so hard on planning the auction.  There were two parts to the auction.  The first one was held at the end of April at the church.  We had 50 items to auction.  Every item got a bid.  Unfortunately, not all "winners" stuck around to pay for their item.  I ended up having to track down 21 people.  I met some people at the church and others I ended up delivering to their house.  It was so much work.  It ended up that 3 people did not return my call and we re-auctioned those items.

A week later and just this past Monday was the golf tournament and auction.  All went well until we had winds to content with.  Trying to set up signs was impossible.  We had to move to plan B then plan C.  We ended up taping everything down to the table.  It was so ridiculous.  We had 40 items to auction.  Happy to report that every item had a bid.  And this time I only had to contact 4 people.  I am still in the process of getting payment. 

The auctions went really well.  We were able to raise $6,700 for the county's only homeless shelter.  We were very excited about the outcome.  The two of us put a lot of work into this auction.

School!  There are 4 weeks left in the school year.  I can't believe the boys get out so early in June.  It will definitely be longer summer, which sounds nice at the moment but we will see come July.  Trevor finishes his last year of preschool around the same time.  My little baby is graduating from preschool.

There is so many other things that we have been doing but I will need to update at a different time.  I hope to download pictures soon.