Speaking of our new summer schedule - I'm learning a lot more about patience being home with the girls two days a week. I thought things would slow down this summer with me being home but instead the days are still just whipping by. The weather has finally taken a turn to summer - we all but skipped over spring and went straight into the high 80s. Mike nicely reminded me that it will be January soon and to quit complaining when he shut off the AC and opened all the windows this weekend.
On our first Wednesday adventure, we met up with some friends at the library for Touch a Truck day. We stayed busy inside for a bit, checking out way more books than needed before heading home for lunch and naps. In the afternoon, Julia got to experience her first swimming lesson at Goldfish and she was not overly pleased. Lily picked right back up where she left off while Julia screamed for a majority of the 30 minutes. All she's talked about since then is how much she loves her teacher so that's a plus.
We spent our Friday running errands before packing up and heading to White Lake for the weekend. We had high hopes of spending Father's Day weekend on the water but the weather didn't quite cooperate. Instead we explored Muskegon, letting the girls run wild on the dunes near the pier and taking in the start of the powerboat poker run. I'm sorry to say Father's Day was unfortunately not Mike's traditional day filled with bloody mary's and sunshine - we headed home early to clean house, do laundry, meal prep, and get ready for the week.
Monday Mike headed off to Virginia while I held down the fort. With extreme fear I might go insane on Wednesday, I made plans with a girlfriend to go strawberry picking. Since Mother Nature has been a real B this year, the crop has been terrible and every place we looked into had very limited pickings or none at all. We opted to not take our two two year olds out on a witch hunt for berries and instead lucked out with the weather on the river.
The weekend brought us our first gorgeous river weekend. We camped out at the sandbar and soaked up the sun (and cocktails) with friends. The following Monday I headed off to Chicago for the week for work before returning to a house full of Hoys for our second annual river weekend. We couldn't have asked for better weather and we are so grateful we got to spend the weekend with family from Chicago, Indy, Seattle, and Detroit! And of course there was Sunday Funday with the Tollas clan.
Fourth of July weekend came and went faster than I could have imagined. I am disappointed with myself for not taking nearly as many pictures as I should have but did my best to keep my phone away and just be present with the family. It was a different year this year - quiet. And it was extremely hard to adjust back to work after a five day weekend.
We spent this past weekend enjoying the river in all it's glory with family and friends. You know the girls are having a good summer when the first words out of their mouths when they wake up are "when are we going tubing?". We've gotten into a pretty good rhythm on weekend mornings - coffee, skiing, cruise, tubing, sandbar, nap? who needs a nap, tubing, swimming in the pond, dinner, s'mores, repeat.
Today - the sun is shining and it would appear to be a beautiful day until you step outside and can barely breath. I think this must be what it's like to live in a southern state - extremely high humidity, air quality alerts, and 90 degrees. The girls ran around with the neighbor kids for a few minutes before seeking refuge in our cool basement. As Mike so kindly reminds me, it will be snowing soon, so after nap we'll try and find a cool spot in the shade to read before heading off to swim lessons.
Happy hump day everyone. School starts in less than six weeks so soak up summer while you can. XOXO
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