Summer rewind: July/August Edition

With all the gray cool weather lately, I’ve been wistfully reviewing photos of our fun July when it actually felt like we lived in the South. You know when you live in Atlanta and start thinking a move to Seattle for sunnier weather seems like a good idea, something is off.

Anyway. After a week to recuperate from our vacation, the kids were off to WinShape Camp for a week. Their tag line is “Best. Week. Ever.” And my kids would definitely agree. This is Evan’s third year and Pressley’s first. She has been looking forward to it since Evan’s first year when we attended family day. They get to pick 3 “skills” to participate in throughout the week. Evan’s skills were fast food, wacky science, and flag football.

Pressley chose fast food, cheerleading, and gymnastics.

They had a blast.

Also in July, the “baby” of my Berry girls group turned 40. We’ve had a really good time over the last couple of years celebrating as each of us turned 40. We had a blast celebrating Jolynn with a girls’ night at the lake followed by a family day. It was so good to see all of our kids playing together and enjoying each other!

We also spent some time in July checking off some of our summer “bucket list” item. We went to Six Flags with friends (more than once):

We went to Stone Mountain with the cousins:

And we made the trek up to Cartersville to the TELLUS museum. Evan had been asking to go there all summer. P was not as excited about the prospect, but she thoroughly enjoyed it once we were there (though I will admit she did not enjoy the planetarium show as much as E and I did…)

Finally, we kicked off the first couple of weekends in August with having more friends out to the lake. First up were some of Corin’s law school friends. It was a smaller group and it was so nice and laid back.

Then, the weekend after school started, we had some friends from the neighborhood come out. We had 16 kids and 10 adults. It was a super fun day. So much fun in fact that I forgot to take very many pictures. I did get a few – and a friend sent me a couple more.

So, that’s it. That was our summer! It was a great one. I hope that the rain will relent and the temps will warm up so we can have a bit more warm weather fun even though we are full-on in the throes of school.