Memorial Day weekend...again not camping, but a good thing because it was unseasonable hot this week/weekend. It actually topped 100 degrees at times. Softball lost 18-4 during the week, we played about as well as we're going to, I think. We were also short our best player so I filled in in the outfield (I may be the only one who caught anything in the game). We mixed things up a little, but it didn't help. Anyway. The kids are now done with school, thankfully, and a final push to get things done at the end came up a bit short but Nat passed almost everything anyway, so all 3 of the kids will be in high school next fall, yay! Alex wants to look for a job now. I'm going to have to get the pool set up soon. Beth took all the kids shopping quite a bit in the last week or so because they also all need shoes for summer gym which is starting up in a week. Saturday we went to look at a couch/loveseat that someone at work had for sale, but it turned out to be 2 loveseats and they were really mushy so I knew that was a no-go as soon as I sat on them. Also Saturday Alex went to a birthday party for one of his friends, so he was gone all day (they were going to FW to play laser tag), and the rest of us took a drive up to Goshen to pick up the framed portrait of all of us on the beach at Virginia Beach. I've put it up in the living room where the framed photo of Beth, Alex, Missy, and me at the Birmingham Zoo all those years ago used to be. It looks great! Saturday was pretty low key, Beth and the girls did more clothes shopping and I stayed home with Alex. I got some cache maintenance done too. Monday I had the day off so we all went to Dutch Creek Animal Farm or whatever it's called; the place where Beth and the kids went last year when I was in Arizona without them. Beth had been sure it would be really crowded so we went super early...and it wasn't. Which was fine, but we had seen everything by lunchtime and headed home. It's a nice park though, fun tractor ride and feeding the animals, and quite a variety of animals to see. But it was frakkin hot. Also this week we had Mark do some minor landscaping for us; finally getting stones put in the circle around the crabapple tree in the front yard (looks great), and leveling a pad in the backyard for the new pool. Which I'll have to get set up soon.