Last night of Summer...

It is officially the end of summer. I wish the temperature would concur. I think we have done pretty much everything on the list. I can't think of any pool we haven't swam in and we are down to just a few popsicles in the freezer. Do Mother's really cry when their kids go back to school? Maybe they are tears of joy. J/K...I will miss them...but not when I am grocery shopping, etc...

Since I was so bad about blogging I have grouped our summer pictures together. In the link you will find 4th of July, Cole's 6th Birthday, random summer craziness and our Jack Johnson concert with Cole.

Summer 2010:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/41660153@N05/sets/

Idaho Trip-July "Cowboy Up"

I generally try to avoid making Idaho sound all hickish (?), but this trip brought out the cowboy in all of us! You'd think being from Dallas we would have the cowboy thing down, but not so...it took a trip to the Snake River Stampede in Nampa Idaho to get these boys to their inner cowboy.

We had a great time in Idaho. It was an action packed trip with visits to the water park, rides on the scooter and corvette (Carter's 1st time driving), up to McCall for boating (Cole's 1st time on the board), the rodeo, and the icing on the cake was celebrating Papa's 60th Birthday (a mini-family reunion)! No minute was waisted on this trip, we had a great time.

Link to Idaho Pics:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/41660153@N05/sets/

Florida Trip- August

Our final trip of the summer was to visit Preston's parents. Unfortunately, Preston couldn't join us because of work...so off we (me and the kids) flew to Tampa!!!! (I was sorely outnumbered!) I think I heard the comment "you've got your hands full" about a million times. They were really thinking "you are crazy lady, and please don't fly on our plane again". But, it was all worth it. The kids had a great time catching up with old cousins and meeting new ones. We played in the pool, the ocean, the aquarium, and the Y, but their favorite activity was riding down the long driveway on their "cars". If it wasn't for the 8 fire alarms in the hotel they would have loved that too.

See our Florida pics here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/41660153@N05/sets/

tHReE's a CRowD