June looked like this...

- June started out with more quilting.  I can't show the top, but you can see the quilting from the back. This turned out to be one of my all-time favorite quilts.

- Justin attended the father/son campout for his first time, leaving me  free  , I mean alone, for a good 16 hours or so.  My college roommate and I got together and did some fathers day shopping for our hubbies.

- What is it with boys and electronic gadgets?  Nothing draws a family of boys closer than silly youtube videos.

- Justin regularly picks flowers for me, and it melts my heart every time.  He also has a fascination with bringing me pinecones whenever he finds them.

-We worked and worked in the basement and have everything but the bathroom finished.  We got rid of the dropped false ceilings.  Todd framed them, wired new lights, hung sheetrock, mudded, textured, and installed baseboards.  My job was to paint.  Because it was ceilings, and required priming before painting, I was speckled all week--I had paint in my eyelashes, hair, ears, and everywhere else. Caleb and Brayden are finally back in their rooms and we are trying to find the motivation time to finish the bathroom.

-Todd, Brayden, and Caleb went to Scout Camp for a week and had many adventures.  They came home sunburned, dirty, and brought lots of laundry.  Something I learned is that scout camp actually exists...shh....for the mom.  I went days without needing to do laundry or running the dishwasher and got caught up on so many things.  The house was so quiet.  I dearly love my tweens, but I am already looking forward to scout camp next year :o)

-Justin fell off of our table (There really is a reason for the "no bums on the table rule") and got a nasty owie on his ear.  It didn't bleed...until the next day when he helped himself to a bandaid and put the sticky part right on the scrape. When he pulled it off we had a mess...you can't really put a bandaid on an ear, nor can you convince a bleeding three-year old to sit still.

-As expected, it got really hot in July.  Thankfully not near as hot as last summer, but we did take advantage of the 109 degree weather by baking cookies in our car.  Yes, IN OUR CAR.  It took about three hours, and they looked a little anemic, but they tasted good.

-While the big boys were at scout camp, Dillon and I got some bakeable clay and got crafty.  I made three robots (Todd, Felicia, and Brayden robots), and look forward to finishing my other three once school is back in session.  I had forgotten how much I love creating.  It is so therapeutic for me.  I need to make time to do things like this more often.