Summer Sweetness and all its' glory

My son just made the announcement to us all that today is the "official" last day of their summer vacation. Monday will not count as it is a holiday....according to him. So how is this last "official" day of summer vacation being spent? Well, the daughter is at a friends, the youngest son put together his first 2 models and the older two, typical ....video games, phone and computer.(too cold for the beach and we already took the pool down).

The hubby is off today and me...........well, I am just spending my time being nostalgic and in comptemplation. Why? Maybe it's the cloudy, overcast weather and the chill in the air? Or thinking that all my babies are growing up so fast! Then that led me to thinking about my Grandmother. Her mothers birthday is the 31st of this month. She would have been well over a 100. Wonder if she was thinking on the day of her babies birth what her babies life would be like.
How many children she would bring into this world and so forth. Honestly, I can say I don't remember thinking those thoughts when my children were born...too much going on I guess. :-)
I love history, especially when it is my families history.

I also have been thinking if my Grandmother got everything out of life she wanted. then of course that made me start thinking if I am getting everything out of life that I want.

I have decided to make a list of things that I REALLY want and things I want to do. I am curious to see how many times this list may change. have you seen the movie the Bucket List? I truly enjoyed it! Of course I bawled at the end! i am such a crier in movies!

Maybe I will share my list on here....maybe it will be too personal, I'll have to wait and see.

until then, here are the things we have been doing since I last posted....back in July! Crazy how much time lapses!

Now let me see if I can think back that far!! :-)

We celebrated my 2nd sons b-day...he's 14 now.....

My nephew William came from South Carolina. He was originally only visiting for 10 days until the airline cancelled his flight and bumped him out 2 more days.

We went to the beach while he was here, although he found the water much to chilly for him. we also did some mini-golfing, bowling and tubing on the boat too. Hope he had a good time.

During this time my Mother's cousin and her husband from Columbia, SC came to visit.( no pics from their visit as I had the digital camera...which I broke:-().

I was only here for one evening of their visit, I was on my way to Boston the next morning to a Women Of Faith Conference with some friends. ( which by the way was AWESOME!! AND I got to talk to Nicole C Mullen!!!).

We went shopping at some really nice places, ate at the California Pizza Kitchen and The Cheesecake Factory... ( do you need someTING?) Let's be serious, sometimes going out of town is all about the places you can eat at!! Especially if none of these places are near your home!

After coming back from Boston, my two older boys went off to boot camp again this year, but to work as staff not to be a cadet enlisted..or whatever you call them.

This was the second time we sent our older two boys off ....the first was with our church youth group for a week of learning and fun in Mass. By the way...the oldest son is going on a missions trip to Durban, South Africa in Feb of 09 I am excited and apprehensive all the same!

Hm..what else have we done this summer...........

Oh yes, hubby had a birthday! And we did LOTS of boating....until we broke the boat.....that has now turned into a project ;-0.

Then there was the GNO....girl's night out....at a baseball game...again, some places you go for the food ( fried dough and fries!!!!). (they were good going down...but eewwww NASTY later!!)

Look girls, there's our "friend" sitting behind us!! UGH!!!

remember I said I had broke the digital camera? Well, I took this picture without having a clue what I was getting! :-) Pretty good huh?

So we pretty much wrapped the summer up with a sailing excursion 2 weeks ago on a Sunday. My 2nd and 3rd child realized sailing is not their "thing". Although they do love them some power boating!! Not the rocking back and forth.

again......pictures taken with a broken digital...you can still take pics but can't see what you are taking them of. Do you know HOW many pics we took HOPING to get a good one ?:-)

so here's to summer.......looking forward to the next one until then....fair winds and following seas...