Hard to believe another summer is coming to an end. I usually am somewhat ready for the kids to go back to school but not yet for some reason this year. We have had a lot of fun. We started off with a trip to Isle of Palms with Taylors and Rigbys. Always a good time with all the families. We really are blessed with wonderful friends. The kids LOVED the ocean this year. We could not get them out of the water for the first time. We also got to do a wonderful boat trip for half a day. We had a boat with a tour guide that took us on an EcoTour on the island. The kids got to see how crab traps are set for fisherman, had their own afternoon on a private island with great shelling, caught a ton of their own blue crabs, and went kayaking. The best was Daddy and Connor on the kayak and it kept tipping over. We could not stop laughing! Alec was supposed to go next and decided to skip it!
We had lots of baseball this summer with Connor and Alec. Connor had a lot of adjusting this year as it was the first year of kid pitch. Alec kept saying he can't wait to play "real baseball". Grace did several weeks of tennis and we all did lots of swimming.
We have had visits with Cynthia and her kids and Patsy, Maddie, and Nicole. Patsy's visit was full of fun stuff like Kings Island, the zoo, Zoombezi Bay, school shopping, family cookouts, and lots of hide and seek. Connor of course did his usual crying when every good visit comes to an end. He gets it from me. I always used to sit at the window and cry when people left our house after a visit. Thankfully, we are heading to Michigan this weekend to visit cousins. I am so grateful for such wonderful cousins to be such a positive influence on our kids. Matt & Chris are always an inspiration on how to be a better parent.
Daddy surprised me this summer with a weekend to Indianapolis for the Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney concert with Jen, Shorey, and Diana. We had a great time! I still have 2 more great trips to go! Jeff and I are heading for a weekend to Baltimore for an old friend's wedding and then I am heading to Colorado for a long weekend with old high school friends. Cannot wait for both! Getting to go to Cynthia's will be great as I have not seen her new home yet. I hope all my kids have as many treasured friends as I do as they grow up. It was rough elementary and middle school years, but God took care of me in high school with Cynthia and Jenny.
A couple cute and funny things that I want to make sure I write down. As we were leaving the zoo last week, they were handing out sample cans of a new Pepsi drink. All the kids got one and when we got to the car, Kate managed to spill most of hers in the car. Connor said "well Kate is not a responsible drinker." I looked at him trying not to laugh and he said "What? All those signs say drink responsibly and she obviously cannot do that." I love these little moments when I still see some innocence in my 9 1/2 year old. My other one is last night when we were celebrating Matthew's birthday, Alec disappeared while Matthew was opening presents. He reappeared just as Matthew was finishing his last present and said, "Wait, there's one more." He had gone to the basement and found him a gift (a frisbee from the 4th of July parade) and wrapped it up for Matthew. Such a heart of gold. Grace is the same way; she spent hours working on little signs for Maddie, Cole, and Matthew to hang up at the party. These are the times when I think, I must be doing something, at least one little thing right.
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