I have been really bad about keeping up with the blog lately...Sorry! But we had some visitors over the past few weeks, so let me try to catch up! Our first visitor was Laurel!! She came out for a few days and kept me company by the pool! She was even here to celebrate Erik's promotion to Lieutenant! We wanted to do something special for him so we went out to the grocery store to try and find a balloon that said congratulations, BUT, since its graduation time around here, all they had were grad-themed balloons! We found this little number--it was the only one that didn't say "grad" on it, so we snatched it right up, along with a cookies and cream ice cream cake--Erik's favorite! Only after we got home, as Laurel was trying to doctor the balloon up to say Navy or Lieutenant did we realize the "U" was probably for "university"!!! Oh well, it was the thought that counted, right??