schools out for summer

School ended June 8th (or around there somewhere). Now it's Summer. It's the delicate balance of work at the church, Young Life work at home, babysitters, the kids being home all the time, bigger grocery bills because everyone's always hungry and being tired because everyone goes to bed too late.

Summer is about managing your expectations and your reality. The things you want to do and the things you can actually fit in your schedule. It's about putting things on the calender to make sure they happen and being spontaneous at the same time. It's about making your days count, not letting them slip by. It's about being productive and making sure life doesn't swallow you in the process.

Summer is an interesting kind of hard.

A couple of weeks ago, we went to Washington, DC on a Sunday to visit John and Shawna. A total bonus was getting to see Bobby, Rachel, Reagan and Rose. We hit up a Nationals game and sat in the nosebleeds (the very tip top row). It was great!

We did the quick walking tour of most of the monuments on Monday. I haven't seen those since our 8th grade trip to Washington, DC.

 

We had a great visit and definitely want to take the kids back soon.

Last week we had Big Kick Soccer Camp at South Ridge. It's our 3rd year in a row - best one yet. It was an incredible week.

Our long time friends, the McKissack's, stopped by for a visit on Saturday. Patti is one of my mom's longest friends ever. They are great supporters of our ministry. We see them once about every 5 years when they travel from out west. It was a great visit!

Since Big Kick took up our first entire week of Summer, we declared Monday our 1st official day of Summer. We hit up the pool with the Underdonks and then the lake with the Kozels.

We may have overdone it a bit. Ted got a little dehydrated and then motion sick when he climbed back in the boat with a huge headache. Oops!

So Summer begins. I'll leave you with this text I got from Ted today while I was at work. (Skip down to Today 10:25 AM). I won't tell you who was in the wrong here, but it definitely wasn't Ted.

Cheers to Summer 2015 - let's get this party started!