I have been a TERRIBLE blogger these days...I don't know what has prevented me from blogging in the past few months...life, travel, kids etc...other moms/bloggers seem to be doing just fine (Tracey for one) but I just can't seem to get it together...anyway, enough of that...
What has been going on you say...well this is what we have been up to these summer months.
Our summer kicked off with a camp trip to the White Mountains. It was windy and cold...but sunny so that was ok. The girls love to go camping...they are able to play with the various dogs that people usually bring, hike and explore, eat all sorts of fun camp foods and stay up late by the campfire. In the dead of summer when it is above 110 here in the Phoenix area, the White Mtns is really our one choice for camp trips. We go about 9000 feet where it is no longer hot. A couple weeks ago we headed back up there for the second time this summer. We hiked each of the 4 days and usually found a mountain stream to play in. The water was cold but nice enough to stick our toes in, throw some rocks in and just enjoy.
The girls and i were also able to go back to Cape Cod for three weeks in June. The craziest thing about our vacation was that it was cloudy for almost the whole trip!!! I grew up on the Cape and can't remember that ever happening before. It was crazy. There were times when I was wondering if my girls were going to go nuts being inside for so long because of the rain. One day when we woke up and it wasn't raining, Lauren noticed and said "Mom, it's NOT raining!!". She was a very excited girl. We tried not to let the weather dampen our spirits though. We still made it to the beach to walk, collect shells and explore. We went out for ice cream plenty of times, we visited with friends and their children, we saw family and spent lots of quality time with grammy and grampy and overall had a really great trip.Lauren and Taylor were great fliers too. They are already asking to go back on the airplane to grammy and grampys house because "it's really fun there". I too am looking forward to next year already too. I have decided that we will be on Cape for the 4th of July next year. I think the girls would love to see fireworks on the beach and frankly so would I!
As the summer winds down for us, we are looking forward to a great school year. The girls are extremely excited to be going to Bridges Preschool this year (aunt Cari's school) where I know they will have tons of fun. I am ready to start my school year as well. It'll be my second year now so all the first year jitters are gone and I am ready to have another fun year at my school.
I hope to keep you all posted on all of our adventures...Enjoy the rest of the summer all you east coasters...spend summer sunny days on the beach! And to all my fellow Arizonans, I just hope we survive another summer and lets get to fall when we can get out and enjoy the best times of the year!
