Behind....

For some reason we thought we'd get a lot done this summer. But as I realized yesterday I have less than a month left before I go back to school officially. Plus baby's arrival is quickly coming! So here's a quick look at our summer, what we wanted to do, what we actually did and maybe some things we'll still get to...

*Build a retaining wall around the garage. Jon has most of this complete just some more backfilling.
*Build retaining wall extensions and flower bed by the house (the hope is this will happen before winter...)
*Landscape around the house-East and 1/2 of north side are done! Thanks Aron and Myra for letting us recycle your plants! Keeping this weeded has been an ongoing project all summer.
*Trying not to kill our trees...this spring we planted 14 evergreens, 2 oaks and 6 fruit trees. So far 4 of the evergreens look like they won't make it-Jon is convinced the mole in our yard has something to do with at least on of these. The deer have discovered the two oak trees and we've discovered that deer like young oak trees.
*We had planned to take a vacation-just a long weekend. Somewhere a long the way we've run out of time. We discovered on the last trip down to my parents (2 1/2 hours) that we had missed our window on a trip, the car ride was much to long for being pregnant.
*Jon is currently working on his parents' roof. It started as just replacing the cedar shingles and soffit on the south side. Then we had a bad storm and the garage roof needs to be done also-luckily they're going to use metal on that so it should go faster. Jon has been working evenings and weekends around everything else (already scheduled things, work and the weather) trying to get this done. He really needs more help and a pregnant lady can only do so much!
*We had hoped to pour a concrete pad in front of the garage and a sidewalk to the house but it's looking like that will get pushed to the fall or next year.
*Prepare for baby:
-As of right now we have most of the things for the baby that we'll need right away, thanks to baby showers and the wonderful Teske family! We still have to pick up the crib, arrange the room (which involved dealing with those last few boxes we didn't know what to do with), and buy those last few things.
*Get ready for school, I plan to go back for the first two weeks then start my maternity leave. Since I'm going back to first I have to unpack all my first grade stuff not just the normal classroom set up that I normally do late in summer. I'm also trying to be realistic and have my first two weeks planned so I can leave right at the end of the day or be ready for a sub in case baby comes early. I have a great long term sub for my students so I'm not worried about leaving my students with her-I just have the room and plans ready for her.
*We've started the search for day care for when I go back to work...
*We hope to have some down time to relax and just do some things fun things for us but as Jon as been saying lately "we don't know how to slow down"