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Crazy Busy

I feel like that's my life's theme right now. Crazy busy. Go. Go. Go.

This last weekend we took the camper "up north" so we could attend two open houses. And because it has recently come to my attention that not everyone will immediately know what I mean by that, I'm going to clarify. We had two high school graduation parties to attend. Second cousins on my side of the family.

I've got some great pictures of the "up north" family and all of us "downstate" people on my Flickr site. To see them, you'll need to be logged in. Sorry...it's habit to put them behind the friends and family filter.

However, I know not everyone has access to my friends and family photos, so here's a glimpse at our most recent graduates:

Jourdan

Tarah with her Mom and Dad

It was so nice seeing everyone. Ken and I have decided we need to pull the camper up again, though, so we can have a more leisurely visit next time. The only problem I foresee is that we're going to have a hard time finding a free weekend!

Seriously. This summer is going to be a blur of weekends.

This upcoming weekend we have our nephew's open house. And a baseball tournament for our youngest. Because we have both things going on at once, I'm going to miss our little guy's second game Saturday (I think I can make the morning one, though, so that's cool!). I figure my sister-in-law will need some help getting things ready for the party.

The following weekend we have yet another baseball tournament. We'll be camping with the other baseball families that weekend, which should be a lot of fun. And hopefully relaxing.

Then we're looking at the 4th of July weekend. We've made plans to go camping with my hubby's family and some of our friends that weekend. I'm also hoping to get some family photos done that weekend while we're visiting the beach. (The pictures on the wall are embarrassingly old and in need of an update. STAT.)

We have a bit of a break after that. Then we're looking at the last couple of baseball tournaments before our big family vacation.

Fun stuff!

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