behind

I know I'm behind - I'm sorry:(  I have to say, while we've been home from our vacations for a couple of weeks now, I've either felt like I just haven't had time to blog or I've had other things to do rather than catch up the blog.  I'm trying to be better...  This morning, I thought if I made it part of our morning routine while the kids were eating breakfast and before our day really got started, I might be better off.  That idea lasted for .3 seconds before Hannah crawled into my lap and said, "Be wif Mommy."

Clearly becoming part of our morning routine won't work.  So now I'm going for while Hannah sleeps. We shall see.  I made a small list of things to accomplish while she's sleeping today and so far I've done half of one task and taken a small nap:(  I'm going to have to wean myself from napping when the kids nap so that I can actually have a sense of accomplishment around here.  Things are piling up, and when the kids are awake, I try my hardest to play and do fun things and go fun places.  When they go down at night, I'm so tired, I can barely get anything done.

Taking up lots of my time lately are our digital files...which is another reason I'm behind on my blog.  Trying to make sure our family photos are updated and backed-up is a huge task, or so it seems to me anyway.  I'm not sure how other families do this well, but I'd love to know.  I feel like it's over-taking my life.  In the last week, I thought we lost a huge file of photos.  This caused me to have to upload 7000 something photos from a back up drive again, which took a lot of time.  I know have a separate back-up for both computers and everything is also in the cloud.  I think.  That's the tricky part!  I've also decided it is impossible to name every photo I take, so I'm trying to let that go.  It's bothering me a bit, but we're going to try it out because otherwise I'm never going to catch up!

And that doesn't even touch on the fact that the kids' yearly photo books are nearly non-existent, with the exception of Jack's two-year-old book which I finished last year...

So I'm feeling behind...

But in the meantime, we're having a fun summer, and the little lovelies are keeping me very busy!

Jack dressed Hannah up so they could play Iron Man together!

We made an "invisible" jet.  I'm not sure why it appears that Hannah was glaring...

We played in the rain!

When we went to a birthday party last weekend, Jack was reunited with a little love of his from preschool.

I just love this picture!

How Hannah eats pizza:)

Cheese!

We are trying to spend lots of time at the pool - this was their best attempt at a picture together.  So it goes.

Jack is working up to the diving board - first with his floatie, and then today without it!

Hannah is loving the pool this year!

Jack started Tae Kwon Do after asking for nearly six months, and he's loving it!

He's just so handsome...

Hannah's been helping me cook, although she wasn't loving having her picture taken that night.

We've gone for walks (or drives).  Hannah's not quite sure about the Gator just yet...

I've been getting ready for Hannah's birthday party this weekend.  I still have 7,345 things to do, but I think it's going to be really cute, and she's so excited!

And then there's this...

When Daddy had to change the band-aid on Jack's foot, he was a little scared.  So Hannah crawled over and held his hand:)

Oh, I love those two so much!  Even though I'm overwhelmed and feeling behind in everything, I am so lucky that I get to spend this special time with them - especially while they are so little.