It's a Zoo Around Here

Yes, I know. You are probably asking yourself, "Is she even doing the blog anymore?" Well, truth be told, this has not been a very easy summer for us. We feel like we have been running non-stop. Between John working 10-hour days and me now teaching 4 nights a week (b/c another teacher got another job so I had to take over his class for the rest of the summer), something had to give....and it was the blog. (Ok, it was also not putting any laundry away for about 3 weeks. Hey, if it makes it out of the dryer and into a basket, it's still clean.) Don't get me wrong, we are still very thankful that we are busy and healthy and employed. However, it's hard to watch everyone else go on vacation when the stress level around our house seems to be growing.

Anyway, I am going to try to sit down this weekend and post some pics from the last month and a half. Until then, I will leave you with one of my favorite pics. We were very fortunate to be able to take Gracie to the Greenville Zoo with some friends. She really enjoyed walking around and exploring. She particularly loved looking at the cages with the exotic birds. Here is one of her trying to climb a fence in front of some bird cages. Man, she is getting so big!