The first week of my “summer vacation” is being spent organizing… We started in the garage which is still trashed but an “organized” mess.  Yesterday I spent the day sorting through the mountains of clothes Xavier had accumulated and today I’m going to try to make a dent in the toys.  We already took two overflowing boxes out of the livingroom full of his toys.  I believe we are having a garage sale this weekend, or at least I would like to. I’m going to find out what we need to do. I only plan on selling the big items - crib mattresses, toddler bed, changing table, car seats, etc.  The clothes are getting sorted to give to the local homeless shelter and eBay (I LOVE eBay!)  I’m really hoping to have the house cleared out by the time I go back to school in August.  Fall semester is going to be rough with my school schedule and the possibility of Geno going to a new school also.  

Derrick is doing well. He’s enjoying his time in Ohio with my mom and Torrey. Geno, Xavier and I are headed up to Columbus, Ohio on Monday and plan to get him Wednesday before heading down to see Geno’s family.

Xavier is doing fantastic! He is officially potty trained and will be moving to the preschool room as soon as they have an opening. It’s funny one day he is refusing to use the big boy potty and the next day he’s refusing to use pull-ups.  It really did happen overnight.  He is also excited about going to get his brother, who he missed a lot yesterday. He asked many times yesterday morning about where Derrick was and he wanted to leave to get his brother “in the mountains” instead of daycare yesterday. It was really sweet.

This past weekend we had our neighbors over for a spaghetti dinner. In the past month or so we have had about 4 new sets of neighbors move in and they are the best bunch of people.  So we invited everyone over for Geno’s Famous Spaghetti. It turned out to be a great evening, the men and kids played on the Wii while the the wives went outside and relax/talk.

Well that’s about it for now. Have a great week everyone and I can’t wait to see everyone next week!