What I Should Be Doing

I wrote this long blog about things that have been going on in my life and how I have been checking more things off my list, and for some reason, it wouldn't update.

This weekend, we went to Michigan to visit the Hubs family. We were going to see the Sox vs. the Tigers, but the game got rained out.  Instead, we went to Dave and Busters with cousins. It was so much fun and qualified as a date for us! The hub's family told us to go out and have fun. We followed those instructions!  It was a great time! I haven't had that much fun in a long time.  I don't remember the last time I have gone there. Because of the hubs work schedule, we don't get to spend a whole lot of time alone together.  He works nights, I work days. Thankfully, I have my summer off so we can do things like this.

Last week, we got a chance to go to see a Chicago Fire soccer game.  My favorite restaurant was having a give away for four tickets.  Not many people entered, so my chances were pretty good. I ended up getting four free tickets so I called my sister to see if I could take my nephew, B. He has been playing football, but is switching over to soccer this fall.  I wanted to take him to the game so he could see what it was really like. The Fire ended up losing, but the game was really good.  Taking John to a Fire game was on my list of things to do, so there is another thing done!

For anyone keeping count, there are still 73 things left on my 101 Things list.  I feel like I am doing things to meet this goal!  Hopefully I will accomplish more before this is up.  I know I still have a year and a half, so I guess I am all right...

Summer is Here!

I still can't believe this school year has come to an end. I love looking at teacher meme that describe teachers in June. This girl was no different!

Last fall, the hubs and I started to do some major projects around our house. Since we bought it,we installed a new roof, new windows, new ceramic tile in the kitchen, completely remodeled the bathroom, put in a front porch, added rock to the front of the house, and put in a huge patio in the backyard. There are still some things I want to do, but I'm getting to a point where I'm happy with the way things look here. This year, I decided I wanted to start gardening. We had so many weeds we had to put weed blocker EVERYWHERE. The only place I can really put any flowers is in pots.

My school had a flower sale, so I bought a couple of flats of flowers I liked. I've never really planted  flowers before, so I just put bunches of them in pots.  They  came packaged in groups of four, so I left them that way. I really should have read up on the flowers I planted. This is what they look like now.

A little over grown. I am going to have to fix that, but I'm excited about having flowers!