So much has happened since I last posted. Perhaps that is why, despite my efforts to post each week, it has been 3 weeks since I last successfully published anything here.

Here’s a bullet list of exciting goings on

• Father’s Day! I have such a great dad, such a great husband, and such a great father-in-law! I am SO grateful for the influence of righteous men in my life!
• Josh’s birthday!!! Josh is the best ever and has been doing it for a full 29 years now! He has decided that since he is 29, he should probably start acting like an adult. So far, that has meant that he got a haircut, and is trying to figure out what adults do.
  

  My favorite boys!

• Fay is now reading like crazy! She frequently reads books to Carter and it is so fun to watch and listen to!
• Carter has started potty-training, which I pretty much thought would never actually happen. He is getting increasingly better at proactively telling us when he needs to go, but he still has accidents. I’m just glad that he’s interested at all!
• Portia is now a walking machine! I also thought this milestone would never arrive, but it finally has! Don’t try to tell me that she needs to stop growing up. I am LOVING this stage! She almost waddled right out of the library the other day, and it was just so cute that I had to love it!
  

  The girls walking through the rose garden. Ashton gardens are one of my new favorite destinations!

• This past weekend we went to Monticello for the annual Muhlestein family reunion. It is kind of magical to hang out with cousins when you’re all grown up with families and stuff. I feel like I get to know them in a totally different, and good, way!
  

  The ONLY picture we took of the reunion: our tent as we went to bed (Thanks to Mom and Dad for letting us borrow their big tent as well as bedding for the kids). The kids loved the tent, the cabin, the dirt, the cousins, everything!

And now we are getting excited for the Fourth of July!