The Beginning of May through Today

I (Kristi) am officially on Summer Break! I am so excited for a much needed break from lesson planning, grading, and the challenge of balancing my teaching work with our ministries here in Kenmore.  Here are some things we've accomplished in the past month.

1. Josh ran in the Indy Mini again at the beginning of May! I was not able to get the day off work, so Josh headed to Indy with his friends Kevin and Drew this year and met up with some others along the way. His next race will be a full marathon in the fall!

2. We planted our garden for 2012! We're hoping it's more successful than last year, as we are learning a bit each year. We enlarged our planting area and added some extra nitrogen to the soil.  Here's hoping to lots of veggies to can and freeze!

Our first garden success--strawberries! We began with four strawberry plants last year, and now we have a large strawberry patch with lots of delicious berries! (You can see our patch in the previous picture behind the white trellis.)

3. My parents spent Memorial Day weekend at our house helping us redo some flower beds and planting flowers.

4. My closet is finished! We have been planning on redoing it since we moved in, but kept putting it on the back burner until now. It used to have one rod across that was broken and held together with duct tape. Now I can fit so much more and was able to clean out a set of shelves that I was using in another room for some of my clothes.

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5. We made a last minute trip to Huntington over my birthday. It had been a year and a half since Josh was there and about six months for me. It's hard to believe we spent six years of our lives there. It was bittersweet leaving the town where we had so many incredible college memories and first fell in love and started our life as husband and wife. We were able to see many friends and realized what made those six years so incredible- the people there. We wish we could've stayed longer...

Heading out on the road to Huntington

Josh took me to Huntington's famous Nick's Kitchen for my birthday breakfast.

Josh was able to spend an afternoon at the Boys and Girls Club where he worked for four years.

Several of my friends were able to come to town for an afternoon, all the way from Grand Rapids, Colorado, and Canada! We celebrated a new baby and a baby on the way and enjoyed being together again.  (No, that is not my baby I'm holding!)

We're looking forward to Summer 2012!