Simply MUM!: Summer Lovin'

Wow! Here is the list!
1. New mini-van, 3 kids, and a 12 hour drive Priceless!
2. Drove 6 hours to my sisters house in Virginia, spent the night and then off to Pennsiltucky to visit my best friend JoJo, and the love of the boy's Life- GEM. Yes all of her guns were locked up and yes there are two dead deer heads on he wall in her dinning room but we had a great time. In 5 days we took the kids to the zoo, the Children's museum, and the natural history museum ( or as the boy calls it the bone museum).
3. Drove 2 1/2 more hours to Cleveland. J and J got married, it was lovely. The Boy wore his tux and did an excellent job holding the pillow and walking down the isle.
4. Got up early the next morning and Drove 12 hours with all three kids back home. Not as bad as I thought it would be. Had some more family visitors ( JT and SQIDNEY) that I barely saw because of my summer job. Which by the way seems to be dragging on this year!
5. And then it hit "The Great Sickness" K got it first.. after 3 nights of 103-105 fever I took her to the pediatrician only to find out it was a virus and we would have to wait it out. (this was after the torture of taking blood, a catheter to check for UTI, Strep test and looking in her ears. About 5 days in "The boy" got it along with PINK EYE. K picked up the pink eye as well. And then MOM went down. In total it took about 12 days for the entire virus to leave the house. But not before I got pink eye as well. Boy did it wipe us out.
6. GOOD NEWS- JOJO and GEM hopped on a plane to come visit for 5 sleepovers. And again the kids had a great time. But the drama continues... we took the kids to the park and K split her chin open on a brick bench. Called the Dr. told me to bring her in only to wait an hour to be seen and then have them send me down to the children's hospital. 3 stitches later and lots of Steri-strips we headed home. Do you know how hard it is to keep a one year old from climbing with her chin and pulling the tape off? I gave up about 12 hours in!
7. Jojo and GEM left yesterday and the boy was so sad. He told me that we could not go home because there were no friends at his house and that I need to go get some.
0. by the way I almost forgot to tell you.... I need to go back to the beginning of the summer to tell you that we moved. Only a mile down the road... but in a great big house with a yard for the kids. And a man cave!
At that in a nut shell is our summer so far. Enjoy the pictures!