May has been busy!

Wow! Where has the time gone? This month is flying by! It could be because we have a lot going on, but I wanted to capture some of the big events of the last few weeks!!

Last Saturday the boys and I had a fun day! We started the day at the Home Depot workshop... a favorite thing of theirs to do!

Then, in the afternoon we headed up to Oregon City to see a high school performance of The Miracle Worker! It was pouring down rain and we got soaked, but it was worth it! I heard about it through one of my homeschool groups and we were definitely impressed! We have been reading about Helen Keller through a few books we have and I thought it would be a good thing to do while they are interested in specifically deafness. I have hired a man to do the cabinets in the new house and he is deaf and can't speak at all so I have been explaining to the kids how we communicate. I think meeting someone has peaked their interest even more. Connor sits up and reads at night and many nights I have to go tell him to turn out the light, or I'm afraid he would stay up all night! He kept reading her story over and over and did an incredible narration this week for school on her life. Since he has read it so much, he actually memorized parts of a book, but he also grasped some of the concepts I was hoping too, such as Annie Sullivan's perseverance!

We have all the bedrooms painted and the had dry wall put up in the garage so we are making progress. We are waiting for the permits and working through the bids to make a final decision on who to hire. I am anxious to get moving on this as we will be moving in very soon!

I found some bunk beds for the boys that I liked and they are thrilled! They are so excited and already arguing over who gets the top...what was I thinking? Every day when I go over there to work, they are just on the top playing. They have dragged all the toys that I have taken over there up on the bed and play for hours. Today the sun was shining so instead they went out and played baseball!

Last Saturday I attended the Celebration of Life service for Darian. It was an incredible time of laughter and sadness and was so well done! Both of his parents spoke and did an amazing job and it really was a beautiful service. I was so amazed at the sheer number of people that Darian and his family have touched. There was well over 600 people there and even the new sanctuary couldn't hold that crowd. They had to line up chairs in the hallway and the coffee area and a lot of us stood in the back. Connor and Brody decided not to attend and I honored that choice and hired a sitter so I could go. I learned at the service how much Darian loved slurpees so after taking Emily home, off the boys and I went to 7-Eleven! Connor asked me lots of questions about Darian, especially about the funny memories and stories that were told so I kept telling him all I knew!

Oh yah, and on a much lighter note....If you are ever looking for a way to occupy two little boys for hours on end....it might help to have a sister in the rubber business. They found a piece in a package that she sent to me and went crazy creating a robot! Then they found my stash in a closet and created a whole army of rubber robots! This is half of the army, they created a total of 6...as you can see they are very detailed and darn cute if I do say so myself. Some of guns and some of swords...BOYS!