1 more month!

Can you believe it's only one more month until school starts?  The boys keep asking when is school coming, or if tomorrow is a school day.  Every time we try to explain how much longer we have to go but I think at 7 and 5 they don't quite understand.

We made an effort in July to be working on some school work but as things went on it didn't get done.  We did a week or so at my parents house when they both did work but after that things lagged.

I'm going to try and fix that this month.

We have started our "get ready to go back to school" routine already.  Yes I realize this may seem crazy to some people.  I mean really we have 1 whole month before we do go back to school but I need to know things are ready.

Last night we spent about 1 hour going through the boys clothes, the ones in their drawers, the ones in our "too big box" and anything we could find.  We figured out just what the boys need for school and added it to our list of shopping for the new year.  Thankfully it's not that crazy!!

In the next few days we are going to head out for our back to school shopping and get the boys ready for Grade 2 (oh my gosh!) and SK!

I'm going to be heading to the school soon to get some more gardening done there and eventually get my pass for volunteering in the school.  Hopefully we can get it done soon :)

Baby Casey ~ Pictures

When we found out we were expecting Casey I did the "normal" thing.  Freek out and then take pictures of the pregnancy test.  I finally emptied my camera and have those pictures as well as pictures of the flowers we have in honour of Casey.

A family from church brought us a meal and some tulips.  Also as soon as Arnold found out what was going on he called the church and asked if we could get an Easter Lily in Casey's honour.  And we did.  When Arnold went to pick it up he was told to take more since some people didn't get theirs.  We took 2 home with us and they are now in our Baby Casey Garden out front.  I just couldn't pick one or 2 pictures so you have been forwared there are ALOT of photos.

Today I was told that my Beta levels are down to 13.  I'm finally getting back to a "normal" state.  I do plan on blogging at least one more post on Baby Casey and my miscarriage.  I want others out there to know what it was like to go through and that there is hope, even if I"m in tears when someone asks how I am doing.

Thank you for all your love and support.

Here are the flowers:























































And Baby Casey's Garden: We are hoping to get a stone for the garden. I haven't found anything "perfect" but I"m still looking.

Flowers!

I know I have taken a lot of photos of my flowers this summer. I can't be blamed really! The flowers are beautiful!

I snapped these at the school on the way home:








And these at church on Sunday. What a pretty flower to be growing in the parking lot!

My Beautiful Outdoors Part 2

This one is all about my gardens. Last fall the boys and I planted all these bulbs I got on sale in the back garden. We used the potted plants we had from the plants we actually bought and went to town. Now I have moved them to the front yard and I'm loving how they look every day. So beautiful! I can't wait until they fill in a little but for now so pretty.

Enjoy:

My front garden:













Some fun photos:













My new Strawberry plants we found in the back yard:





These were taken on the way to school. The first one is a of the follow up photos from the random nature ones:



And these are from school:





Is it bad that I have an urge to go and clean out the gardens around the school? No one seems to care anymore and I wish I could help clean it out. If it wasn't so yucky this weekend I might have done it now but I don't think I can.