So long summer as I wipe the tears from my eyes. I was not ready for summer to end for a number of reasons. 1) I was not one of those moms ready to ship my kids back to school. Back to school just means homework. While it may be their homework, I am vested in that time as well. With Logan that can mean sometimes over an hour. Every night it is at least 45 minutes with him not including our reading time. 2) We did not do everything on our summer bucket list. Almost everything but we still had summer fun to be had. 3) It means my grueling school schedule has begun. I have no idea what the heck I was thinking with a full time schedule with everything else going on. Is it bad I am already looking forward to December when I can get one whole month off?
Our summer was awesome! We love adventures and the experience that can be had with memories made and knowledge gained.
Our first adventure on our list was Harper's Ferry. Logan wanted to earn another Junior Ranger Badge which he was presented with here.
Logan really took to the story of John Brown and both kids enjoyed what the town had to offer.
For Father's Day weekend the kids, Zoe and myself headed to Granddad's house. A visit to G-dad's is always on our summer list.
On a walk with the dogs down to the beach we spotted a blue heron. It never gets old watching these birds.
On Saturday I had the family over for a cookout. Since we are all spread out and live our separate lives, it is nice to get together from time to time.
I couldn't resist taking a picture of G-dad with his camera.
Autumn headed to Girl Scout camp with her troop the day we got back from G-dad's. We headed up and dropped her off with her troop for a week of fun at Cowan's Gap. The house was a little quiet without her there for the week and we all missed her like the dickens, even Logan, but we survived and so did she.
The day she came home from camp was her 10th birthday. The day after we had a small family get together to celebrate.
Every now and then a mysterious picture appears on my phone.
One of our go to places in the summer is Cacapon State Park in West Virginia. The kids love it here.
A place they had begged me to go was Gettysburg Battlefield. One Saturday we headed up and enjoyed the new visitor's center. I highly recommend it. You do have to pay since it is not part of the National Park, but well worth the admission.
Here is the new home of the cyclorama.
They both earned their Junior Ranger badge here. It is a pretty cool 150th anniversary patch.
They had some hands on displays which we stopped to check out and ask questions.
We stopped for a little visit with Abe.
They don't that thrilled here.
We drove through the battlefield and stopped to visit numerous monuments.
And get our workout climbing towers.
One of their favorite places was Round Top.
It seems I have created little history buffs. They talked me into buying the movie Gettysburg, which is 4 hours long, and they have watched it 3 times since. They proclaim it is the best movie ever!
On top of our regular adventures, the YMCA camp they go to in the summer headed to Hershey Park for the day. I decided to tag along for the day. We tackled the Super Dooper Looper which Logan did not like and Autumn loved and also one of the wooden roller coaster, which Logan loved and Autumn hated. We called it an end to coaster's after that and stuck to less thrilling rides.
We did not get to do Chocolate World when we were there so two days later we headed back to Hershey with Rob in tow.
Making your own candy bars was kind of neat and watching the process but it took forever.
Since Rob had a beard he had to wear a special beard cover.
Here are our custom candy bar covers.
Logan also had the chance to go to Cub Scout Camp right down from where I work. He enjoyed the week which had swimming daily, BB gun, archery and tons of other activities. Here he is participating in the color guard and bringing the flag down for the day.
That is just part of our summer in a nut shell. Stay tuned for Part 2 as well as a big announcement.
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