Summer's End

We have had the best summer!  I have really enjoyed being at home with the boys, and we've just had the best adventures together.  I'm a little bit sad to see it come to an end, but we are sure excited about the upcoming school year and all that it will hold.

After we got back from Montana, play dates were on the top of the list.  We met up with one of Jacoby's BFFs from school and his little brother for a morning of miniature golf.  Four boys with golf clubs!  It was quite the site to see!

We had an outdoor movie in our backyard.

One of my so-called "projects" this summer has been training for a marathon.  It's been as much about building mental stamina as physical stamina, especially when I start out for a long, long run at 5 am and it's dark out.  Thank goodness for a little Van Halen and Bruce Springsteen blasting away on my tunes to make the miles go by! (:

We finally made it to Water World.  It took all summer but we got there and boy did we have a blast!  We were there for 7 hours, and truthfully, the only reason we left when we did was because Mommy and Daddy were wiped out.  We went down crazy water slides (Mommy screamed a lot), played in the wave pool, and the boys had a blast in the smaller kids area.  The boys loved anything fast and furious, and I discovered that anything faster than the lazy river is considered too intense in my book.  It was a great, great day.

The boys were whipped by the time we got back to the car.

I'll be posting back to school pictures later this week, but we are already feeling so blessed and grateful for the boys' teachers.  I think they're going to have an awesome year!