Wednesday, August 27, 2008
We went to Lake Mohegan today. We haven't gone for a little while and I've been so busy cleaning and preparing things for school that I haven't spent much time with the kids. So for our final hurrah before school starts I decided we'd go to the Lake and get away from the work and the stress and just play. We were also hoping to run into Noah's swim instructor (a.k.a. Noah's lifeguard lover girl) and pick up his Second Year graduation certificate. When we arrived we were surprised to see there were no lifeguards on duty. I thought they'd be there through Labor Day but I guess I was wrong. We still went swimming and had a great time. And since there were no rule-enforcers there, we had a little extra fun. Here are all of the kids (mine and the McCurdy's) on the lifeguard chair.
And here's Caleb, on duty. He sat up there for about an hour just watching the Lake. He was nervous getting up there but as long as he was in the middle of the seat, he was completely and totally content and peaceful. As a side note, Caleb insists on always sitting in the middle of the couch when he watches TV and in the middle carseat in the Suburban. He told me this week that if he sat by the window in the car, he might blow out. Guess he doesn't worry so much if the twins blow out.
This is Justus playing in the sand. I'm going to miss these lazy days at the Lake, watching the kids dig and swim and play. We've had such a great summer. I'm seriously having a hard time not crying about the end of summer vacation.
And here are Noah and Jarrett breaking as many rules as possible while the lifeguards weren't looking. Pretty funny if you know these two. Jarrett has all the bad ideas and Noah is always thrilled to play along. I love it! They are two lifeguards I would hate to have saving my life but man, they sure look good up on that chair. Look out girls--here comes double trouble!
 
 
And this is Hunter with his two new best buddies: Rylee and Reineer. They spent the entire summer together digging up at the "no digging" sign. This afternoon while we chatted we discovered that Reineer and Hunter share the exact same birthday and Rylee and Noah (Riley) share the same birthday only five days apart. It seemed to bond Hunter and Reineer even more. They left swapping phone numbers and promising to meet up at the Lake again next summer and Hunter said something about sharing their birthday party. We'll see about that. . . .
And that's a wrap folks. The kids are sound asleep in their beds and the first day of school is lurking just around the corner, a few short hours away. I'm seriously not ready for school to start. Sure we've had our share of fighting and yelling at each other. There have been some seriously bad days. But for the most part, we've had a splendid time together this summer and I'm so sad to see it come to an end.
posted by Shana # 10:28 PM 
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