When Life Trumps Blogging

These are the excuses events that bring blogging to a halt:

It may be a little difficult but do you see the discolored streaks running down the walls?  Wonder what that might be?  Well, its none other than toilet water.

Yeah. Toilet water running down my walls. Soaked through the two rolls of toilet paper. Purple towel drenched. In pools on the floor. And splattered all over the curtains.

How?

Well the wonderful city of Wauseon was flushing out the sewer drains in our neighborhood and apparently we had a birds nest type blockage in the vent in our house which caused pressure to built up until SPLASH - toilet water spewed out of our toilet onto every surface in the bathroom.

And we have two bathrooms.

It was a wonderful way to spend the day.

Not really.

But we have been spending a lot of our summer days doing this:

and this:

We've been eating a lot of this:

and collecting these:

Long summer days means we need to catch up on this:

And summer get togethers mean these are never ending:

And neither is this:

But maybe once we get this installed, it won't be so daunting:

However, I never mind doing this:

I spend a lot of my time here:

And try to spend more time on here:

I've spent a lot of time doing this:

And as a family we've spent a lot of time here:

And when we're home you can find us doing this:

Of course, summer wouldn't be complete without a lot of this:

And some of this (whatever that may be):

(You can't tell, but Yoshi was very, very glad the sprayer wasn't hooked up to a hose.)

So there you have it. 

 Our summer, thus far, in a nutshell. 

 I look forward to life slowly down as Fall approaches and I can get back to blogging.  Of all the artsy-crafty things I do, scrapbooking is not one of them.  Blogging is the one way I chronicle our day to day lives and mark the milestones of our fast growing children.

So stay tuned this week as I have a lot of catching up to do.