The End of Summer

Summer is coming to an end and I have been given an award. Worst Blogger EVER. I use this blog as a tool to go back and look at all the things that have happened to us and I will look back at the summer of 2010 as the most boring summer ever. BUT IT WASN'T. And here you thought I just used my blog to make snarky comments and complain. Shows what you know.

So, I'll get you caught up on the last 3 months. Some of which have already been mentioned in the blog and some haven't, but I am not going to be picky and choosy about what is blogged about in the next 10 minutes and neither are you.

We started our summer off with a family trip to Oregon. I already know I blogged about this so I'll keep it short. It was fun. End of story.

I turned 25 in July. Or was it 35? I lost count. Either way my AARP card is on it's way. Actually, funny story, I do get AARP stuff in the mail, but it's not for me, it's for my mother-in-law, who happens to share my exact name. I think she did it on purpose just to give me a mild heart attack when I see it in the mailbox. Or maybe it is for me. I'll stick with the first story. She doesn't argue it.

Maddie turned 7 in July. Although sometimes I think maybe it was 2. I don't know. I swear she throws more temper tantrums now than she did when she was 2. I put up with them A LOT less than I did when she was 2 though. You'd think she'd learn, but I think she has that short-term memory problem. The one where she chooses what she remembers and what she does not.

We played some incredible softball this summer. We gathered a team of old players and new players, and all in all we got a team of people who not only played well together but got along like peas and carrots. Or broccoli and cauliflower, only because I actually prefer that to peas and carrots.

We were given a really large pool this year by my dad for the kids to play in, which they utilized to the highest extent all summer. I'll admit to having dipped my tootsies in the pool once or twice on the hottest of days.

Joel decided to use his head at work, not in a good way, and got 7 staples and 6 stitches, which he decided would be fun to remove himself. This is me not amused by him.

We camped twice, once with the Snelsons and all the kids in Belfair and once with just grownups in Brinnon. Both were awesome. Neither time did we have good weather. The two weekends of bad weather all summer were our camping weekends. Oh well, camping in the Northwest wouldn't be the same without tarps.

So now the summer is coming to a close. Tomorrow is the first day of the last full week of summer vacation. Maddie is preparing to head off to 2nd grade and Dylan is preparing for 7th grade. I'm preparing for a Mommy Party. The one in which I sit down on the couch and cry tears of joy while listening to silence. I will be sad to not sleep in until 8:00 or 8:30 every day, but to be completely honest, I really only did that once or twice this entire summer. I would have done it more, but kids and husbands don't know how to let a woman sleep. They apparently didn't get the memo. I'll be sure to write it more clearly next summer.