Back to reality

Hello blog friends! I am really being the worst blogger right now, but summertime is BUSY!!! We had a wonderful vacation in the Bahamas and now we are back! I lost my memory stick soon after we got home, but now I found it so I will post some pics!

 This is the beach that we went swimming at most days- it was THE BEST beach EVER!

We had to get creative about finding fun ways to stay in the shade, so we buried Ezra's legs. He thought it was pretty cool!

Caleb was really looking forward to getting some snorkel time! I don't think he got nearly enough, but he enjoyed it anyway:)

Poppy loved to float and be rocked by the waves. I think she would have sit in that floatie all day if we would have let her!

The whole family after dinner on my 27th Birthday!

Mr. and Mrs. Bailey today...Four and a half years after our honeymoon to the same place!

...and of course you gotta have one of these pics!

and one of these!

BUT...

Now we are back home. Ezra has been sick this morning and as I am writing this I am listening to the AC guy in the attic above me fixing our air conditioner that quit working two days ago. 

Yep, definitely back to the real world.

I'm back!

Wondering where I went? Me too. I don't know what happened to May- it just started and then it was GONE! It really was a blur, so here is a mish mosh of things that happened.

Caleb celebrated his 28th Birthday and we celebrated by going to Incredible Pizza. We had never been there before, but it was lots of fun!

Zach moved home from college for the summer and we were SO glad to have him back! We get to see him lots more now and that makes us HAPPY! He even came over to play trains with Ezra one afternoon...what a good uncle! :)

Poppy is getting into EVERYTHING! It is so exhausting! Anywhere I put her or anything I try to occupy her with is completely pointless, she would much rather find something that she shouldn't be in. Why are those always the most interesting things??? She also started pulling up on everything too...poor Target sack was the victim on this day.

Aunt Cara and Grandpa Steve came down to see Caleb for his birthday and we got to visit with them for an evening which was nice. Ezra even tricked Aunt Cara into playing trains with him. (Can you tell how excited he was about that?) Although I'm pretty sure Cara knew what was going on all along! :)

Poppy playing in her kitchen. This occupies her everyday for about 3.2 seconds. She just likes to pull everything out onto the floor and then she crawls away while I pick it up. It's quite a fun game...for her.

And earlier THIS month we celebrated Zach's 20th Birthday! That makes me feel really old. Here is Ez on the way to the party! He is really into wearing his cool shades right now.

We went out to eat and then back to my parent's house for cake and ice cream.Here is Ezra with the birthday boy!

Poppy and the cake.

Make a wish!!!

Poppy was licking her lips for some cake...sorry Poppy :( But your birthday is only a few months away!

Getting some love from the Birthday boy :)

It went fast, but it sure was FUN!

Show Us Your LIfe Money Saving Tip

(Reposted for Kelly's Money Saving Tips)

I made a great discovery this week! Well, I think it's great, but everyone else may already know. Have you checked out the library lately? I realized that they have really good cd's! Every cd that I wanted to buy (which is at least about 15 at any given time) they had to rent! I have been mad at itunes for raising the price of their songs, so I haven't bought any lately, but now I can listen to everything I want FOR FREE!!! And they have movies too! I was mad because I looked up several of the last few movies we have rented and they had them all there, again FOR FREE!!! I'm all about saving a buck, and though I LOVE Redbox (I'm also mad at Blockbuster for being a RIP OFF) free is even better! SO needless to say I requested that a bazillion things be sent to the library by our house and I can't wait to go pick 'em up!