summer 2012

so this summer has to have been the busiest one we've ever had...as evidenced by the fact that i have hardly blogged at all! i guess that's good--you know, living life instead of just recording it.

so here, in a very condensed version, is what we did this summer.

(if you follow me on instagram, sorry. you've probably seen all these pictures!)

*we went to a darling owl baby shower

 

*we went to waco several times. 

nana taught mckinlee to sew...

and we had a fun time with this girl.

*we went to the museum of art with a group of friends

*mckinlee had friends over to spend the night

*we went on vacation to a beautiful resort in san antonio with these guys.

*we went to sea world

(and let me say...we had fun, but third time to sea world and not much of anything has changed. this will be our last time there.)

*i planted flowers and almost all of them made it through this brutal summer!

*we went to the dallas aquarium where sadie met a new friend

and where we watched feeding time in the shark tank.

*we helped a friend prepare her classroom for her first teaching job

*our congregation finally split and this group of friends was divided.

(we went out for treats on the night of our last meeting together. hence the smiley/teary faces.)

*we watched cosmo find a new place to sleep every few days

*we were in the drama of this year's convention playing "the good parents" :)

(practice took over our lives from april to august! so much work, but lots of fun too.)

our "daughter" is the one on the left. the girl in pink was the other daughter.

*we went to the cleaning day before the start of all the conventions

*the girls were "reunited" at the convention

*mckinlee got her hair hi-lited for the first time,

 played in sadie's pool

and we went out for yummy lunches

*we got several treats like custard and freddie's fries

*we volunteered to work at two pioneer schools with these girls

*i read a lot

*we did some organizing

*chris and i went to chicago.

business for him, pleasure for me!
(a whole post coming about that.)

*i started collecting milk glass

*mom, danielle and sadie came to visit us.

sadie loved the bunnies on my back porch...

and uncle bruno!

*my hibiscus finally bloomed

(note to self: never buy a hibiscus at the same place you pick up bagels and bananas.)

 

*we went to the chiropractor a lot

(that should be a picture of me since i was there way more than mckinlee)

so that was our summer. now i see why i'm tired!

i hope to blog more regularly now that we are in more of a routine.

we made the decision to take mckinlee out of a brick & mortar school and enrolled her in k12. it's a public school, but she works from home.

she said the other day that she is liking it way more than she thought she would! and i am really enjoying it too.

happy monday everyone...have a good week!