Happy Anniversary!

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Together

It has been a weekend of celebrating our first anniversary this weekend! 

Friday evening we had dinner at one of our favorite restaurants in Frederick; The Dungeon at Dutch's Daughter.  This is where we had our rehearsal dinner last year and also had a gift certificate thanks to Mom & Dad Graves! Tonight we went over to my parents house and had steak for dinner.  They gave us this Willow Tree figurine called "Together".  It was nice just to hang out with family for the evening.  Tomorrow for our actual anniversary the plan is to enjoy the day together.   We are going to have dinner at home and attempt to eat the top layer of our cake.  We will be sure to let you know how that goes.  I am sad to say it will be my first piece of our cake and I had to wait a whole year for it!

yes that would be a picture of a dumpster on our blog post!

Atleast its a quite decorative dumpster!  Why the dumpster?!?!  Because I have finally come to the conclusion that this is what my summer camp should have been called instead of Market Street Camp.  The Y has many different camps available for kids to join in on during the summer one of which I was in charge of this summer and very excited about the potential of this camp.  I quickly realized (and the kids told me) that the children in Market Street Camp were there because they didnt want to take part in Sign language camp, Sports Unlimited, Flag Football, Teen Trek, West Mar, Art Camp...and the list could go on.  So if they wanted to do sports they would have went to sports camp, if they wanted to do crafts they would have went to Art Camp, if they wanted to spend all day outside they would have went to West mar.  You get the point and where does that leave my camp?! With children that would rather have FREE time inside then go outside for 45 minutes MAX for FREE time Lunch then do it all over again.  The saddest part of it all in my eyes is that the parents were completely okay with this idea of FREE time.  When the children complained the parents complained as well.  I tried to stick to my guns and keep a pretty structured day NOT full of FREE time all day but 10 weeks of the complaining takes a toll on the camp staff...ME specifically!  I do have to say that I was blessed to have a few awesome campers each week who were up for some group games/sports & arts and crafts each day :)

MIA X 1000000

It has been one HOT summer so far!  Not only is it a really hot summer for many days in a row, I am outside this summer everyday with camp.  The first couple weeks of summer it was nice in the morning time to be outside with the big trees providing shade and then mother nature decided to turn up the heat and well even the mornings are hot to be outside.  But we survived last week doing Olympic events outside and have hopes to a more comfortable next couple of weeks.  We are embarking on the halfway point of summer.  Well for me it is halfway through the summer.  6 more weeks of camp!   Woo hoo.  I miss my kids in my program.  I went to visit them yesterday, it was so fun to see them and their excitement in return to see me :) 

Work has not been the only thing we have been up too!  I know you might have thought that since I have been nonexistent in the blogging world. 

Orioles Game

4th of July annual Cookout

PA for the favorite friends engagement party

Weddings (1 so far...2 more to go)

Little projects around our house

Hanging out with some new friends :)

Dinner & Catching up with old friends

Kevin's 27th Birthday

Carnival

Fireworks

Now if you think I have pictures from all of this you are asking a little much & should know me better than that ;) 

Here are a few of the pictures I do have...

my favorite lil nephew...okay he maybe the only one for the next few months but he was first and you know about those first children born in the family...the favorites :)  I maybe just a little biased considering I am the first born in my family!

My littlest brother after bath time let me give him a fo-hawk :)  He is growing his hair out...we will see how long my mom lets this go on.

For Kevin's birthday we went out for all you can eat crabs and then 2 days later had crabs at Mom & Dad Graves house to celebrate his birthday and fathers day.  I wrapped all of his gifts in brown paper and wrote a clue on the outside... "something you need" "something to eat" "something you want" 

And finally us at the O's game

Busy Little Bees

We have been a little more productive than this bee!

It's only noon on Saturday and we have been PRODUCTIVE :)

re-arranged our family room

painted a shelf

painted our tv stand

cleaned the house

mowed the grass

had breakfast with my parents

hung some pictures on the wall

cut down flowers

kevin got a haircut

Whew!  go us and being able to get some things accomplished and still having the rest of the weekend to hang out and enjoy with these two people...

and of course I am enjoying spending time with Kevin :)

a wonderful evening...

A wonderful evening spent with my husband :)  The rain FINALLY stopped and the sun warmed up the day so what better way to spend the evening then to have dinner outside.  We don't have patio furniture set so we had to do a little improvising but hey if I say so myself I think it turned out pretty much awesome along with some Pioneer Women Chicken Spaghetti & Roasted Red Potatoes for dinner.

Productive Saturday

yes it's true we had a very productive Saturday that didn't involve a track meet!  Which means our house got some extra t.l.c.  And trust me when I say MUCH NEEDED tlc.  I have recently had a few occasions were a friend stopped by without time for me to pick up and I was embarrassed at the way my house looked!

The conversation went a little different than this one but Kevin gets all the credit for the dishes being done today!  I may or may not have pointed out the fact that my Dad did the dishes after dinner last night :)

And he can keep on dreaming that I would be this happy about cleaning our house and better yet dressed in pumps, dress or apron while doing it!

Happy Mother's Day!

p.s. Kristy i hope you enjoy your mother's day gift from me...a blog post :)  i will miss you tomorrow