Hope everyone has been having a great summer! We sure have, between severe storms and power outages, crazy work schedules and getting that new puppy Rocket. I've been busier than a one-armed paper hanger!
Highlights of our summer:

• Isaac turns 3 and moves to the 3s room at daycare/school.
• I have my birthday and refuse to believe this new strange-sounding number that is supposedly my age! I demand a re-count!
• Isaac sees his first movie-theater movie - Gnomeo & Juliet. A Movie Junkie is born.
• We went to Legoland and see our first 4-D movie. Love the snow flakes!
• Isaac learns to brush his teeth with big boy toothpaste
• We get a new puppy, Rocket
• We spend Saturdays wandering IL and WI - Junkin' and I build my junk garden

• Mr. Hottie trades his car and gets a new  bright blue Nissan Juke
• Took Isaac to see Cars 2 and Rio - both in 3D. He wore the glasses in Rio but not in Cars...which surprised me.
• Again - we have NO summer vacation. 
• We visit Canada (my in-laws) and take Isaac to Marineland and Niagara Falls on our super rushed 3 day "psuedo-vacation".
• I had a minor car accident - no one is hurt. Guy I bump into inflates claim & sorta frauds my insurance company and gets away with it. (Jerk!)
• We visit the Milwaukee Zoo
• Isaac's new phrase "Trust Me...." (Uh Oh... a little politician in the making?)
• Puppy loses first baby tooth.
• Lucie dog has a mystery lump on her head and a cancer scare. Turns out it was nothing serious.

• We go to Touch a Truck event. Later my friend at work takes Isaac to his fire station for a private tour and to 'drive' all the trucks - he is in absolute heaven!
• Work going strong...my hours increase (but still no official full time or PTO). I rarely get a day off and still have no vacation.
• Visited the Klehm Arboretum for a relaxing Saturday
• Visited the Illinois Railway Museum
• My niece found out she is pregnant and is having a boy! What a blessing!! A great way for someone we love to make use of so many toddler clothes/items we had from Isaac!

It's been a fairly fun, busy summer all in all. It has definitely flown by that's for sure. Sadly we have not had a chance to get back to Kentucky to visit friends or my beloved Lexington. We haven't had time to go into Chicago for a day - we missed the Korean Street Festival, and haven't hit the water parks this summer. Bummer! But it's not over yet - so more to come.