Vacation - all I ever wanted....

This post comes to you from Huntington, WV. We left home this afternoon on our trip west and arrived later than we hoped but about when we expected. No real news to report as we spent the afternoon and evening driving. We have an early start tomorrow and are planning to be in Springfield, Illinois to visit the Lincoln home for our first national park stamp of the trip. We have been reading the Little House on the Prairie series aloud which is so appropriate for this trip since we will be visiting areas where Laura and her family actually lived. The kids really travel so well and we have introduced them to the license plate game - Lorelei is great at it!!! Since we haven't been on any adventures yet, that's all the news I have for the trip. There is an update below on the first two weeks of summer. Look for pictures tomorrow night on FLICKR for both camp and trip highlights.

Last week, the kids were at drama camp at the children's theatre. They had a great time and we will definitely be adding some additional weeks next year. Lorelei also had her dance recital. She was beautiful! Scott and Lorelei participated in the father daughter Michael Jackson finale and it was awesome. On a high note from that week, I received an email from the theatre camp director and they have asked Luke to join the theatre training program in the fall. I think he will be great at it and he really wants to do it.

When I scheduled Luke at cub scout camp and Lorelei at horse camp this week, I didn't think about the fact that Scott would be out of town for a conference the entire week. Lorelei's camp is 45 minutes away and they both had to be there at nine. Luckily I was able to find someone who could take Luke while I was taking Lorelei. Of course it was also my birthday. The four of us celebrated a little early since Scott wasn't going to be here and they made me a great cake. On my birthday, we came home to find we had no A/C and it was 85 in the house. I already had plans to go have dinner with my parents so we loaded up overnight bags and spent the night with them. It has been so hot outside that the repairman was booked for 2 days so ours wasn't fixed until Thursday. That has just piled on to an already stressful week with trying to pack, work and cart the kids all over the area. But we made it through and Luke ended up being the top archer in his den at cub scout camp and Lorelei had a great time with her horse, Red, at camp.