SUMMER ROCKS!

Living in a state that clearly has four seasons, I love, Love LOVE Summer! I most likely would not say the same thing if I lived in say, Texas... like my friends Barb, Jenn & Candice do. Candice has a certain way of describing heat in Texas, and I must say....it makes me cringe when she writes about it.

That said, here are a few reasons why Summer kicks ass.....

• It's all about food right? Good god! My garden and my two next-door neighbors gardens are bountiful. The beauty is that I can go to either of their back yards whether they are home or not and start picking away. Those are some lovely, lovely neighbors.
  
• Heat. I love heat. I spend 300 days a year freezing my ass off. When other people are toasty, I am cursing them (very often, out loud). Why must I have been born with the "I'm freezing-fucking-cold-gene"?
  
• Despite the sun, I am able to stay Vampire-White with SPF 4000.
  
• Oh yes.......food again. Is there any other time of year that you can have ripe, juicy peaches, sweet raspberries, corn-on-the-cob with butta, fresh herbs and tomatoes. Tomatoes...you know the kind of tomatoes that are so red, ripe and juicy. The kind that you pick right off the vine and eat not caring if the juice is running down your chin.
  
• Oh...and the best...the absolute best part of Summer is that I have the privilege of spending it with my children. Vacations, swimming, hiking, lounging and loving life. No schedules. No homework. I feel very lucky.
  

June Sunset - Bogus Basin

COMING TO A CLOSE

*Please excuse my lack of postings. It had something to do with some effing firewall. It's fixed now. Or so Bubby says......

Now that it's August and summer is coming to a close, I look back with bittersweet thoughts......

I'm excited for school to be back in session. The kids function much better with regular routines. Despite my half-assed attempts, what would be the point of keeping the kids on a schedule during summer? Isn't that what summer is all about? Lazy days. Vacations. Too many trips to the Ice Cream Truck.

But with this year comes changes. My children are a year older. Izzy will be gone 3 days a week to preschool and next year he starts Kindergarten. I would rather stick a fork in my eye than to think about my baby being that old.

So here I leave you with some summer pictures....those sweet, long and blistering hot days......

Splashing in the creek....

Swimming with Papa.......

Attending outdoor concerts.......

Eating watermelon............

Long naps on the couch with BooBoo while the kids run around the house like banshees......

(I have no idea who took this picture.)

Aaaaahhhhh, summer.

SUMMER BUZZZZZZZ

Lots and lots of swimming......

Roasting marshmallows in the backyard and gorging on smores.......

Weekly organic produce from our community farm and a bowl full of fresh herbs from our neighbor (chives, tarragon, pineapple sage, tangerine sage, rosemary & basil).....

Summer concerts eating shaved ice and grilling anything I can possibly get my hands on........

Lazy afternoon naps on the porch.......

I couldn't have imagined a life for myself this sweet, this good. I am living my dream with my husband and my beautiful children.

I am grateful.