Michigan WavesThe photo of the summer so far...
We are having lots of fun. We spent time at the Lake fishing, swimming, walking, biking, and enjoying the company of family. We got to meet our new relative, baby Colty. We caught up with some old friends in Grand Haven at Joyces party and have done a little shopping. We went to the beach a couple of nights and tomorrow we are planning Michigan Adventure. The boys have been having fun with the cats and Aniken is in full bug catching mode. I am working on a slide show of these events.....

Hello little guy..Aniken and one of his crab friends

A Wet Week

We had a good time in Croatia but it wasn't too much time by the seaside...we had a lot of rain, and cloudy weather. We did get a bit of sun now and then though and when we weren't playing cards or watching movies or reading we were at the beach or walking. Aniken caught lots of crabs. Zander watched the clouds and told us when we would get the next rain shower. We were together and that's what mattered....

Last Day of School!

Today we ended the school year, well the boys anyway...I have to go in and work next week. Here is a picture of Aniken in his dance today at school. He is the one in the middle with a tie on.
Aniken had to draw a picture of his summer plans. It is above, showing Zander catching the big fish on the right, he is in the middle catching his little shark, and Shaun is to the left catching something as well. I am the green person on the far far right keeping an eye on them and getting ready to put worms on the hooks. And yesterday Aniken made a robot friend. Here they are watching TV together. He slept with him last night too, he was a little crinked this morning and we had to repair an arm. But he went to school. The boy that bit Aniken last week cut one of the robots legs shorter than the other and Aniken was not so happy about this so it was more repairs when we got home...The funniest was yesterday after he made it the conversations they were having. Robot- Have I been to school, yet? Aniken-Well of course not silly, I just made you a little while ago, but you can come with me tomorrow.

I have some pictures of Zander on sport day and of course others....they may be on here soon... Hope all is well and everyone is relaxing a bit with summer here.

What have we been up to?

Yesterday we went up north near the Slovakian border to take the kids on a small train that goes in the mountains. Zoli and I had actually taken our kids from school hiking here years ago. Anyway we got to the train station just in time to catch the 1150 train. It took about a half an hour to the last stop where we got off and decided we would take a big hike. There are lots of trails here. The weather was beautiful at our home in Diosd an hour and a half away when we left, but here there were clouds and as we stepped off the train we felt a few sprinkles...then we started walking. Not even 10 minutes into our big hike...it started raining really hard. So we found an old playground and there was a little old aframe playhouse that we all four climbed into and we ate our lunch here because at this point the boys were sooo hungry. We ate among cobwebs and dirt sitting on the old boards inside this little house. The boys loved it, especially Aniken. Zander was just glad not to be getting wet. After we ate our sandwiches the rain seemed to have let up so we headed out to continue our big hike. We walked for about 25 minutes and then the rain started again...at this point it didnt seem it would be stopping anytime soon so we headed back to toward the train station, at least there were pavillians there we could stand under. We bought the boys some ice cream on the way and made it back to catch the 230 train. We were all soaked so we changed some shirts and then headed back. The boys slept most of the way home and later said they enjoyed the adventure but not so much the rain...me too!!

May
Here it is almost the end of May and I havent blogged...I have never not had at least one blog in a month since I started this thing. I have been busy of course...with school, the family, the house and yard......but I will keep blogging because I like to look back at it. I am on facebook and seem to be able to connect with people there more easily... But the blog is different it is a place for writing, photos, things that capture those moments and events that slip by..so I will keep blogging and now I have to go work on the 96 reports. Only two and a half weeks of school left, another year slides by... 17 years of teaching. When I started I remember thinking of teachers that taught that long... wow I thought how could they stay at it all those years...time has told me how, you just keep doing it if you like it and yes I really like teaching......Night. Hope all is well with those who still check this on occasion.

Zander played in a piano concert today. Twinkle twinkle little star. It was a proud moment for mom:)

Easter BunniesWe visited Zoli's cousins and got to pet the bunnies. Aniken loved them.

GO SPARTANS!!!!!!
To the finals!!
We watched the game live, but for us it started at 1:30 in the morning...I had a hard time staying awake exciting as it was.... The final starts tomorrow night at 9:21pm over there so that means 3:21 Tuesday morning here.... I'll try to get up because it is best to watch it live... I don't like to turn on the computer and see who won and then watch a rerun...there is no fun in that.