Thank You June!

Thank you June, you were loads of fun! You gave us a whole month of swimming + some extreme weather! You also gave us more work than we could handle but you are forgiven and I still like you. Ahem.

The first three weeks, or so, of June we chilled out with below average temps. Not bad, terrific actually, unless you have a shiny new swimming pool to christen and you want it to be HOT! Then this past week the hot stuff finally arrived with a vengeance! Busting out like it had been restrained and finally freed itself with a powerful burst of BAM, here I am! HOT! HOT!

We celebrated Emily's 11th last week and had lots of girlfriends over Friday afternoon to help us do it right. Before Tony got home from work, Wyatt was the only lonely boy out of 13 partying + splashing females. For birthdays, I am usually behind schedule. I start strong because Emily and I like making invitations, but then I always run out of steam and much of my grand plan/scheme falls apart.

[Note to self: please stop always trying to make the cake yourself, you aren't very good at it and it takes you way way too much time and ends up stressing you out because you have no time]

Thank goodness, and all my lucky stars, for my sister-in-law Ana, who showed up at precisely the perfect time to help us get ready and saved me from a minor meltdown!

Later, Nena brought Emma and made the party complete. Nena and I took care of the business of the party, she is the best, I'm beginning to wonder how I could make it through a birthday party without her.

So a party thrown by me can go one of two ways. It can either be a partial smashing success, or a massive failure. Happily, I just learned that when you have a swimming pool, it is not possible to fail! You even get bonus points if it's really hot outside! I got the bonus points because it was finally mid 90's here in the geographic middle of California.

In other news, we [well, mostly Tony] have been working our a***s off in the backyard and I am wondering when we will be able to slow down and enjoy it! Yesterday when it was only 100 degrees, I finished painting the patio. I know it sounds ridiculous but it had to be done because all things outside were in complete disarray and we couldn't even sit and relax because things were in complete disarray.

So finally, last night we put things back in order, cleaned up and now can relax a bit. We even hung these cute little candle/bell decor things on the patio that Tony purchased from someones "candle catalog" at work six years ago!

I told Tony NO MORE WORK until Friday and even then ONLY the small stuff! I'm thinking the big projects are behind us and now we can tackle the lesser ones like the landscaping front + back + the garden at a much SLOWER and EASIER pace. *exhale*

Just this morning:
Today, Emily and Sarah are on an all day Girl Scout excursion to San Jose and Wyatt and Eva are hanging out with me. We're going to do extra FUN things today, like, well, I dunno. But, they will be FUN...NO WORK! Let's try July!