It has been such a long time since I wrote anything. It is getting really busy around here. I have my garden and lawn to tend to plus help grandma and grandpa with theirs. Plus the last days of school are here and we are trying to get things done there. We are moving our reading room to the portable outside the building so that means a lot of heavy moving each day. It is great that they are geting enough kids to need another room but it makes it hard for us that had the reading room all set up and now we have to tear it all down. We have 7 more days of school and the kids are getting hard to keep in their seats. I'm sure many of you are going through the last days of school jitters also.

I got curbing!!! It sure looks nice. We had some guys come in and put in about 510 feet of curbing around the flower beds and it makes the yard look so groomed. I have been busy trying to keep the weeds down until the flowers get big enough to take over. The black birds are taking over this year and they are a trashy bird. I need a good BB gun. Maybe I can talk to Janae's boys to help me out. Probably won't take much talking. My strawberries are on and it is a race to see who gets to them first the birds or me.

Jim is busy getting the hay up. They worked until 12 midnight last night. he said they baled close to 400 acres yesterday. He was sure glad they had 2 ton-rights. He and Blake run them. They are trying to get the hay up before we get any more rain. It has rained on most of it a little but it still is good hay. Hay is suppose to be a good price this year.

We are looking forward to seeing everyone this summer for the reunion. We hope everyone is still planning on coming. If you aren't, now is the time to let us know. We can cancel the rental houses one month before we go. After that we still have to pay for them. I think it would work out if we put everyone in groups and that group was in charge of a night meal, breakfast and lunch. The groups would be mom, dad, Wes, Jen families.....Janae, Wayne, Kim families....Mike, Sha, Stephanie, Troy, Tammy, Neal..........It wouldn't matter what three meals on what day. but if you could talk with the people in your group and come up with a menu by the 20th of June then we could compare menus and see if we are having repeats and make a plan to only bring one of each condiment, etc. The groups would all be in charge of paper products for their meals. And if you need beef for your meal Jim and I can supply that. We have meat in the freezer and we just took three more beef down to McCarys. No mad cow disease here. We know exactly what and where they have eaten and been. Might be few weed in their feed but that won't hurt you. Get together and let me know what you have planned.

Well I must get ready for school. It is getting harder and harder to get there on time in the mornings. I can find all kinds of things I want to do before I go. And then it is just spend my time down there and rush home to do more things. Oh, our reading groups that we work with in Kinder-4th grade made benchmark of 63% (60% of the kids had to reach benckmark to get our reading grant for the next two years) we were so thrilled. That means this reading program is really working. It amazes me how those kindergarterners can read firt grade stuff by the time they leave kinder. And they had 100 % of the kinder and first grade make benchmark. Good teachers. Well I have got to go. Love mom

Happy birthday to Kenzie this week.