Neeley Family Blog

Just a quick look at how our summer is starting....   My cousin Cody graduating high school.  The start of our pumpkin seeds in the garden.  Yep, a pool!  These were the teacher gifts we made this year for the boys' last days of school.  The pool is up and swimmable!!!  Tractors at Grammy and Grandpa's house that took down some BIG trees. Just a hodge podge of things, but a good start to summer so far!!!

School is out for the summer now! I am not sure if the kids are really excited about it or not.  Brayden says he doesn't want summer.  That kid would go to school all year long if he could!  Brock is kind of glad not to have to go to school, but he wants to see his friends.  He just started building some good friendships and so I am going to make an active effort to keep those going over the summer.  Brylee doesn't care one way or the other.  We have started talking about her going to school though (in the Fall) and I think she is getting excited for that.  We have some business ready to keep things crazy around here: a couple trips, visitors, summer party/BBQ, a pool in yard (yep! That is a whole post on its own- so more to come on that adventure), swim lessons, soccer, play dates, possible tennis lessons, family get-together's and I'm sure some other goodies!  Just looking at these 2 and a half lines I just typed, makes me know that summer i...

OH MY! OH MAN!!! Mumford and Sons just came to the Portland Rose Garden! I have been waiting to see them for a year or more.  They haven't been here in over 18 months. I considered going to a show that we would have had to travel to even.  Thankfully, they were coming to the NW for the Sasquatch Festival and added a last minute stop to Portland! Yippee for us!!!! Brad and I planned a date night and invited our friends, Sarah and David, to join us.  My parents took the kids and off we went. :) Here are a couple clips from various songs they played that night.  We had general admission floor tickets.  We were able to get fairly close to the stage.  About 15 people deep or so. And of course I attracted some of the drunk crazies, but we still managed to have a good time.             They played for about an hour and a half.  I could have listened to them play the rest of their songs! I would...