Hi! It's been about a month, I should try to keep up with this a little better!

So, life has been good around here at the Deemter household. We recently returned from a trip to West Virigina. We had a great time with Kent and Annie, Ethan and Luke and Shari and Jason. We spent a week at the Good Evening Ranch in a beautiful cabin. We hung out with exotic animals (lions, tigers, monkeys, kangaroos), swam in the New River, went to a rodeo. It was a blast, a much needed vacation for our family!

It's been a little over a month since my surgery, I've lost about 40 lbs. Crazy! My clothes are fitting looser, I have a little more energy and am feeling pretty good. I have my days that I feel crummy, but that comes with the territory. Next weekend will be a good weekend, I can FINALLY eat some fresh summer fruit! Can't wait for that!

I get to go back to worth on the 24th of this month. I'm ready.

Today I'm sitting home from church with both of the kids. Carter had an adnoidectomy and tubes put in on Friday and still isn't feel 100% (unless his sudden "illness" was a ploy to get out of going to church...?). And poor Natee woke up yesterday morning covered in hives and this morning they were spread to her face. She looks pitiful! I'm trying to nurse her back to health quickly. Tomorrow my girlfriend and I are taking our kids out to Holland SP to camp for the nite (in a tent, no less!) Should be an adventure. Just something to break up the week a little.

We are looking forward to Kurt and Sunae's visit next weekend, before they once again leave the country for another working adventure. The weekend after that we have "Christmas in July" with my step-mom's family. That's always a fun time: riding the quads, playing games, swimming, camping, going in the hottub, fireworks. Then it's Coast Guard, camping at Pentwater with my girlfriends, to Detroit with my girlfriends, Labor day, then school starts again.

WHERE IS THE SUMMER GOING?????

Post again soon (maybe!!) :)