Hey...Sorry for being MIA!!! The summer has just been so busy! Here is what we have been up to....get a cup of coffee or your diet coke....this will be a long one! :) I will try and post some of the pictures tonight, but check back in the next day or two....there will be more! :)
1. Matt and I went to the Jack Johnson concert on June 13th! We had a great time with great friends! Thanks for asking us Eric and Heather!!! We even got chauffeured in a Hummer Limo! :) Much better weather than the Eric Clapton concert! :)
2. Matt and I flew out to California for a wedding in June. We had a blast!!! We went out there with Jason and Melissa!!!! We had a lot of fun walking around Monterrey site seeing! I had been there before but when I was much younger. It is so pretty....we did wish it was warmer, but you know Northern California! We had some great food and too many laughs! Is there such a thing? We saw a lot of Sea Lions. One of them I named Tiny...and no it isn't the biggest one below!
Now the newlyweds are in Egypt for a year....Shon is in the Marines! :) Kirstin does a great job of sending emails about their adventures. Sometime I will have to post one! She needs to be blogging!!! Congrats Shon and Kirstin......we are happy for you! Jason next time take your sweater!
3. Matt went to Japan for 10 days........10 long days at the end of June! Long days for him and long days for us! We all survived...barely! :) There are no pictures here........it was an ugly time! Ha.
4. Over the 4th of July we went up to my days house and enjoyed the lake. Ethan got his first tube ride! Matt K tubed, skied for the first time and knee boarded. My brother, Matt M, also skied and knee boarded. I will try to figure out how I can get this video off my phone onto here!! It is a video of Matt M doing a 360 on the knee board...pretty impressive! Evan will have to wait a while for tubing...or until he has ear plugs! Those darn tubes! Oh well...they have sure been a blessing for us especially him! :) We had a great time on the lake and enjoyed the good weather. Ethan was really into fireworks, and Evan not so much. Thanks Dad and Connie for taking care of the boys in the night and in the EARLY morning. *Matt was struggling to get back onto Indiana time from his Japan trip, and I was sick....so the much needed extra sleep was appreciated*
5. My friend Melinda celebrated her 30th birthday and had a big shindig on 7/12. Matt and his friend Roy were the entertainment! We had a good time...good food...good drinks...good friends...and no kids! :) Happy 30th....here's to 70 more great years! :) Here are some pictures of the band and the birthday girl!!!
6. My high school and college friend, Erika...brought a beautiful baby boy into the world. Benjamin Reese Ponder was born on Friday, July 11th. He weighed 4 lbs 1 oz...and was several weeks early, but is doing great! We all hope that he can come home soon!!! Congrats Hunter and Erika!!!! Look at that face....I have seen that one from his mommy 100 times! :)
7. Matt, the boys, Matt's parents, and I went to Cincinnati for several days on a mini-vacation. We went to the Cincy zoo, and then stayed a couple of days at Great Wolf Lodge. We all had a blast! We did have one special eventful thing happen during the trip....there was a small fire at Great Wolf Lodge and we had to evacuate around 9 pm. It was bad timing as we had the boys all tucked into bed...and then we had to grab them and go. We had to stand outside for 1 1/2 hours. Ethan loved the fire trucks! Evan fell in love with some baby twins! He does love babies! :) Eventually we all go to go back in....the fire was contained to a dryer! The boys love the water, and they are both pretty fearless. Evan is definitely more fearless than Ethan. We will have to watch Evan! :) Matt and I were able to go down some of the "big kid" slides and had a blast. No near injuries like Great wolf Lodge in Sandusky last Christmas! Ha. Thanks Mark and Pauline for the great trip!!! We had a blast!
8. Matt has been working his butt of the last couple of weeks getting ready for our addition to start! GREAT job Matt. He is so strong!!!! He has had to dig out a ton of shrubs that we are going to try to keep. He also had to cut off 2 feet of our deck and dig out post, and cut off part of the pergola....the list goes on and on and on....put up a new temporary fence...take down part of our permanent fence so the crew can get their equipment back in the yard. Now our next job is to get everything moved out of our bedroom and into storage. Our living room will be our bedroom for awhile now! :) Needless to say the Kearneys will not be having a party any time soon. Maybe in October when the work will be done! :) I will do a post in the next day or two on our "Progress."
9. We went up to my mom's house on Sunday to celebrate a belated 60th birthday to my step-dad Dave....what a great guy! We had fun in the pool...fun in the yard...fun with the dog...fun making homemade ice cream....more fun eating the ice cream...fun grilling out....just a lot of fun!!! Thanks mom and Dave for the good time! No pictures here either....took the camera...just forgot to take any! :)
10.....saved the best for last....I bought a new golf bag and new golf shoes.........and actually golfed! OMG! yes...it is true. I quit golfing years ago even before Matt and I were married! My ankles were causing a problem...even sprained one on a sprinkler on the first hole. I am pretty sure that is when I gave golf up! I decided (thanks for the push Heather....and Jennie) to start golfing again. I have only played 7 holes, and I pretty much sucked....but my mom is coming down tomorrow and we are playing 9 holes...just the girls! :) I hope these new $40,000 ankles don't fail on me!
Well...I think that gets you caught up to date with us! I will try to post something on a weekly basis again. Life is just busy...and work has been busy....but i will try a little harder!
