Well, summer is almost over and it has gone by so fast! Ryan and I started our summer out with an Alaskan cruise to celebrate our 5 year wedding anniversary! The cruise was June 26th to July 4th! We started things out in Seattle and then went to Sitka, Juneau & Ketchikan, AK and our last stop was in Victoria, BC! It was amazing, we loved it! The kids went to my parents house for their very first overnighter! Lana finally had her 1st time away from mom and dad at the age of 4. Lana got to go on her very 1st jet ski ride and they got to play outside a lot! Lana found one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Yes, Lana knows who they are, we have ourselves a movie lover, just like her daddy) and took good care of him! Once we got back from our cruise, we were back to the normal life craziness! We got back late on Friday night drove 3 hours to my parent's to see the kids, sleeping (hey I missed them)! Then we came home on Saturday and Sunday we went down to Austin for Ryan's grandparents 50th Wedding Anniversary celebration! It was a lot of fun! The part I enjoyed the most was seeing a couple that has been married 50 years and how much they still love each other! It seems that people aren't willing to stick it out these days, through the good times and bad! Well, Ryan was back to work that following Monday and has pretty much worked everyday since! He won't have a day off until Oct. 13th! Man, I didn't think I would like this blogging stuff but look at me just blabbing along!
So, July and the beginning of August was super busy with the renovation of the upstairs Kids Club area at church and planning Kids Club Day Camp! We averaged 85 kids a day (3 years old to 5th grade). It was so much fun! God was so good! He supplied the amazing adult and youth volunteers and it was amazing! Well, things have pretty much calmed down in August! We are back to the same old, same old!
On August 11th, we had my great grandpa's funeral. That was sad because it was really an unexpected death. It made me look at things a lot differently cause you never know how much time you have left with your loved ones. We fill our time with all of this stuff and we forget sometimes what really matters in life. I am blessed to have both sets of grandparents alive still and 2 great grandma's. And on Ryan's side we have one set of grandparents and his grandma. I want to learn as much as I can from them while they are still on this earth! They are amazing and wonderful people!
Well, I think I have given you an ear full so we will stop there!
3 comments:
Welcome to the world of blogging! Those pictures are beautiful!
Nikole, that was fun to see and read. Hope all is well with your lovely family! Alaska really looked beautiful...so glad you two could do that!
Very cool! Can't wait to see all your pics from Alaska.
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