You know it's been too long when...

you have to reset your password on your blog to get into the darn thing to write a post!

Oh where does the time go?? This summer is just rushing past. We had such high hopes for this summer, DH had a lot of leave to burn and we planned to get out on our boat a lot - since DH will be gone next summer and won't get to use it. But, the fates had other plans. The boat has been in the shop since the beginning of June. Looks like we might finally get it back next week - in time for Mitch and the kids to go to Lake Cushman camping for a few days while I'm in Chicago. Been a long 6 weeks with out that boat - didn't realize it, but DH is a bit of a pouter ;)

We had a great vacation - even without the boat - Sun Lakes is a great place to go - and we will definitely go again some time - maybe in August - will be especially nice if we have our boat back - because it has a great boat launch!!

Emma lost another tooth, so she is now missing the bottom two. Her Uncle Gary called her Toothless George - so we've been teasing her a bit with that.

We have reserved a puppy! Ever since we went to my sister Janet's house - where she had a new little puppy - the kids have really been asking for another pet. We've had so many dogs that we have adopted and that haven't worked out for one reason or another - they dug, they peed in the house, they got out of the yard etc etc, but DH is sure if we get a puppy we can train it the way we want. So we have reserved a buff colored female Cocker Spaniel. The litter was born on July 2nd, so we will get to bring her home late August when she is 7 weeks old. I hope DH is right!
I do love Cockers though - so I'm kinda looking forward to it and the kids are very excited!!

I leave Wednesday to go stay at a hotel near the Seattle airport and fly out Thursday at the crack o dawn to head to Chicago for CHA! I get to see Felicia, Carole and Jen again and hopefully meet my buddy Bonni. Going to be busy but fun!!

I'll try to update with some CHA sneaks while we are there if I have time!

Ciao!!