update

whoa....it's been a crazy couple of weeks.  We have had some major ups and downs with Avery and some house drama.  Other than that all is well and pretty status quo.  Not really too much to report. We had a "last hurrah on dayton" with the Shumans on Saturday.  We had a blast but we found out we are all getting old.  It was a slumber party and we were all in bed before 11.  I blame a marg bucket being finished before dinner, dinner too late, kids that stayed up too late and a bad bad bad hail storm.  No matter what we love the Shumans and are so thankful we met them on this wonderful street.  I guess we are all ready to move on from our life on Dayton.  The kids are all great.  Life in Louisville is VERY busy this time of year.  Races, balloon races, fireworks, steamboat race, chow wagon, Derby and the schools make sure they don't miss a beat.  Av has been told about it all at school.  Things we don't tell her or things I even know anything about like the "bed races."  We saw them on tv the other day and she got so excited and said, "those are the bed races."  I didn't even know they existed.  Then we went downtown to the chow wagon for a balloon glow and she said, "that's the Ohio river, that's where the fireworks were."  That we didn't take her to sadly.  I really wanted to but the weather was horrible. In the 40s and the fireworks go off at 10 so pretty late for us.  We did watch them on tv the next day.  C had a horse parade (they rode stick horses) yesterday and Av has a shoebox float parade today.  I will post pics soon.  It's a crazy fun time of year.  We are going to Oaks tomorrow and I can't wait.  I love this time of year and school is out in 3 weeks.  CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!