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Wow! I knew I'd be out of commission for a while, but WOW. We have never had such a crazy adventure of a summer in our whole lives!! We left mid-June for our two week road trip. Super fun + super long. Our girls were amazing and we (mostly) got along really well. Thank goodness for technology. You know those days of singing joyfully and playing car games together as a family as they went? The only singing that happened on this trip was with Disney SingIt on the Wii and the only games that were played were on the Wii or the Ipad, and many movies were watched between all of us, together and independently, I'm afraid. I decided that Count Studley and I have never in our 17 years of marriage spent that much time consistently together. right next to each other. Until this trip. I'm grateful we had that time together, but I'm also grateful that he has another 25 years until retirement ;)!! Speaking of retirement, when that day comes, we are definitely moving to rural New York. Gorgeous.
We had 3 days after we got back from that trip before we left for our church's girls camp. Since I am the assistant girls camp leader, those three days were spent pretty much entirely with last minute preparations for the camp. And unpacking. And doing laundry. And repacking. One of those days was the 4th of July, so my poor family skipped out on that holiday pretty much completely. And I had even found so many fun things on Pinterest to try!! Boo. We did slap together some pbj's and headed up to our local Independence Day show for a couple of hours to watch the fireworks and hear the group Kansas perform. (I totally didn't remember who they are and they even came from my day!!)
We got home from girls camp on Saturday evening and had to be ready to leave Sunday morning for our next adventure. So Saturday night was filled once again with unpacking, laundry, and repacking. Sunday morning I headed out to take Our Princess to a ranch in Island Park, Idaho where she was attending a horse camp for the week. After dropping her off there, My Angel and I headed over to my parents house for a couple of days to hang out with my aunt and cousin who are visiting from Australia. Then we (did laundry and) headed up to Island Park with my family to stay in a gorgeous cabin and spent a few days touring Yellowstone National Park before heading over to a rained-out rodeo that Our Princess was supposed to be performing in. She got to sing the national anthem, and that pretty much was the beginning and the end, because it was dumping rain and the horses were going crazy. We picked her up on Sunday morning and got home Sunday evening.
Monday morning at 6:30 a.m. we had to be at our church ready to leave for a 3 day pioneer trek with the young men and women. So Sunday night was spent, you know, unpacking, doing laundry, repacking. Monday we rode on a school bus for 7 hours to the middle of nowhere in Wyoming, Tuesday we walked 15 miles. (plus an extra 3 to find Our Princess and her 'lost' peeps) Wednesday we bussed for 2 hours, walked another 5 miles and then bussed again for 6, getting us home just after midnight. Thursday we unpacked and did laundry. Our realtor called Thursday afternoon to see if we could do a showing and I looked around at the piles of laundry, clean and dirty, the tents and sleeping bags strewn all over the yard, the weeds that have completely taken over my flower beds, and the dust that was at least an inch thick on the furniture, and all I could do was laugh. And say no.
So this week
Anybody else out there living it up this summer?
Hoping your Summer is as happy as mine.
Keep Smiling!
