After 23 days at the lake house, including 3 excursions, at least a dozen frogs caught, lots of tubing for the kids and I even squeezed in a jaunt on the wake board; we returned home to mounds of work to do. Thankfully, the kids did not have vacation bible school this week as I originally thought, giving us more time to settle back into our routines.

Starting our summer routine the moment we got home was a trip out to the garden where a lot of our veggies are in and ready for picking! Don't those jalapenos look mouthwatering all stuffed up with cheese and bacon for the grill?!

Grammy, Dido and Rosie joined us for dinner last night as they were missing us. Well OK, probably more the kids. After dinner there was a couple stories before bedtime.

And today the kids got to work on a craft, which they've been begging me to do for some time. Max has wanted to cut, Rory has been wanting to play with the fuzzy balls, so we made little mini crabs (fuzzy balls shoved into colored shells, I know, genius) and set-up a pretend aquarium for them. Hey, it works.

Our week is filled up with appointments and play dates as we try to catch up with everyone we've missed. We had a great vacation but it's nice to be back!