OMG!  What a summer so far!  I am at work right now.  Being in a tax office in July does leave a little time to get caught up on a few things.  Let's see...Allie and Katie have been to camp already.  George E. decided not to go this year.  Maddie will be going the first full week of August.  I didn't do ANY room cleaning while the kids where gone this year :)  Rooms were kept pretty clean.  The older kids DON'T want me in there, so they kept their rooms clean.  I told Allie that if her room was cleaned up before she left I could do something differant than cleaning in there this time.  She was VERY surprised to come home to a room that was totally painted!  She got Princess Pink and Princess Purple paint for Christmas and we hadn't painted yet.  The bottom 42 inches is purple and the rest to the ceiling is pink.  George built 2 corner shelves to replace her pet net above her tv.  I painted them purple to match the bottom part of the wall.  George installed them up on the pink part.  They look so nice.  I was able to find a white shelf with pegs, already decorated with pink, purple and yellow.  We put that up for her treasures and hung bags and backpacks from the pegs.  I was also able to find a cute shear curtain and topper for her window.  She still had the burgundy curtains up that came with the house!  I will post pictures when I can.

The last big construction project we did was split the family room again!  We added 2 small rooms.  One is my craft room and the other is David's room.  They have been in since just after Christmas.  George has been working on built ins for David's room. That's was happens when I get idea magazines!    It came out so nice.  (Once again I will post pictures, I promise).  He built storage cubies all across the bottom of the wall with the window.  Also ones all across the top of the wall.  Then  the rest of that wall have cubbies for David's clothes and a spot of hang  clothes!  It took a gallon of paint to get it covered really well, but WOW! that's alot of storage in a little room!  It only comes out 12" from the wall!

Allie went to the Outer Banks for a long weekend with one of her friends from the old neighborhood.  She had a blast!  I can't believe she's old enough already to go away with friends! 

George has been working the last 2 weeks out of town with a friend of ours.  He's been able to add his brick work in on the weekends.  George E has been working with him and doing a great job.  When did my kids grow up?  Weren't they just born?

We've had a animal population explosion since spring.  We had 2 litters of Labradoodles born on the same day.  That's 13 puppies in the house!  This happened just a few days after the cat had 6 kittens!  They were in the house too!  We have 1 more kitten to find a home for.  David named this black cat "Charlie".  We have 6 more Labradoodles to find homes for.  Summer and Denny, our yellow labs, just had a litter of 7 yellow babies 2 weeks ago.  Allie got a bunny for Easter and I just picked up another one while she was away.  Katie adopted a Guinea Pig from a friend.  The piggy's name is now Titan.  Katie will soon be getting one of Titan's brothers!  I think that's it.  Expect for the critters the cats bring home, but we don't need to feed them.  Looks like we will have more Labradoodles in about 2 months.  This time the Mommy will be Allie's chocolate lab-Angel.  The Dad is our Standard poodle- Casey.

Let's see.. we are also keeping up with some studies.  We are working on American Government.  I drew a tree on our chalkboard wall.  David walked in said it looked fingers.  I know it was a poor rendition, but I needed to respresent the 3 branches of gov't.  We labeled them with the appropriate names, talked about their jobs, learned all this great gov't stuff, then the kids declared my tree looked more like a chicken foot!  We now have the "gov't chicken foot".  At least they will NEVER forget what each toes is labeled!

I think that's enough updates for now.  I'll add pictures soon...really!  Why are you laughing?