June in Review

June was a ridiculous amount of celebrating - something different every weekend. I'm celebrated out.

• First weekend: Allie & Paul's wedding, in Hawaii. Absolutely beautiful. Also, a rather dramatic trip, thanks to the super hot sand.
• Second weekend: Matt's birthday. Happy 29, dear.
• Third weekend: Father's Day. So basically, like last weekend, but for a different reason. (I really do appreciate my husband as a father... Really.)
• Fourth weekend: Boy's birthday party. He turned 8, so we celebrated with our family at a nearby park. 
• Fifth weekend (because it was one of those months: Boy's 2nd birthday party - this time, with friends. Not sure I'll ever do that again - it was just a lot of partying. :)

Other things in June:

• We gave Boy a bike for his birthday, so now we're having regular riding lessons...
• The garden is taking on a life of it's own. The sunflowers are taller than me, the mess of lettuce seed I spilled about 45 days ago is now bush-like greens, the tomatoes plants look like they could hide a small child, and I can only hope the potato plants have as much happening underground as they have happening above-ground. But there is something wrong with my spinach...
• The strawberry harvest was amazing. So yummy. Lost motivation halfway through all the busyness, and therefore, lost about 1/3 of our harvest to bugs and mold and Memphis.
• Matt worked hard on the shed that will become his workshop, so that our garage can be finished and become a family room, so that we can turn our existing family room into a bedroom, so that we can have more children... Follow?
• My aunt is home for the summer, before she moves to Saudi Arabia. She's living right around the corner from us, and we couldn't be more thrilled. Boy has found a new favorite playmate in JoDee, and I love her company AND the free babysitting.
• Boy's case was move from "concurrent planning" (meaning they were striving toward reuniting with his biological family as Plan A, while working toward adoption as a Plan B) to "adoption/permanency planning". That's a big deal... but it will take several more months before anything is even remotely finalized, and it could change at any time.

This is my verse this month: "You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you." Isaiah 26:3 - fitting, no?