End of Summer Fun

This has been a crazy summer. I always feel that way when summer comes to an end but this year I really really mean it. We went on our epic vacation, came home and re-habbed our new house, moved and now I’m just finishing up my week-long intensive  domestic violence graduate seminar. Next week George starts preschool at the public school and Brandon goes back to work. So I feel like this summer has just flown by without having a chance to catch my breath.

I’d love to show you progress on our house but honestly, there hasn’t been much since we moved in. We’ve tried to not let the craziness of our life take over so Brandon and I have worked hard to do some fun things with the kids. 

The Denver County Fair was in town a couple of weeks ago so we took the kids to experience that very American of institutions. We went to go see the animals first and George and Sylvie loved petting the animals.

I didn’t get any pictures of it but the kids especially liked the chickens. I’ve been trying to convince Brandon that we should get two backyard chickens so we could have local, cage-free eggs. He’s been less than enthusiastic about this idea but now I can make George and Sylvie my co-conspirators.

After we spent some time with the animals we went outside to the rides. I’ll be honest, carnival rides make me nervous–being completely filthy and being set up by carnies does not inspire a whole bunch of confidence in a mother’s heart. Nevertheless, we went on the carousal and ferris wheel and had a good time.

Don’t you love the look of complete terror on Sylvie’s face as we fly by the highway overpass?

The next week the kids’ preschool threw an end of the summer carnival which was so much fun.

There was cotton candy, snow cones, face painting, games.

It was nice to connect with other students, parents and teachers at the place that we have really loved and that has meant so much to our kids.

And if nothing else, the Auraria Early Learning Center indulged Sylvia’s most recent desire to become a “princess cat”.

So yes, it has been a crazy summer but we’ve also had a lot of fun. And now that most of the craziness is over, we’re looking forward to getting back into a schedule and getting settled in our home.

I hope the rest of you have had an equally busy but fun summer!

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