August…

I can’t believe it’s August already. I was telling Justin yesterday, on our way down the mountain from his family reunion, that August always feels like the end of the summer to me…ever since I was little I liked the Month August with the word Autumn….Makes sense doesn’t it? So even though it (hopefully) doesn’t start getting cold until October….My mind is telling me the summer is over…and It’s so sad.
We haven’t gotten our yard finished. (We’re close though) All we have left to finish is:
Lay the sprinkling system
Buy and lay sod/or seed (we still can’t decide)
Build the fire pit area
Put the railings up on the deck and
Finish the flower beds in the back yard

I still have a few more not-so-large projects to work on but it just keeps feeling like its too late now so my motivation is going to kill my progress making abilities….

What I am getting excited for however is:
To clean out my basement so we can work on it this winter!
To (hopefully) buy this electric fireplace and get it installed in the living room

My Great Grandpa Chester Wadsworth “all the grandkids” reunion…Could be fun and last but NOT LEAST…
HAWAII!!! We have 16 days until we leave….. (Some pics. of our resort!)

{Holy cow, it just hit me when I typed that number!!! 16 days…My word, I’m so unprepared—but I’m super excited!} We’ve got our hotel booked, rental car booked, and Massages at Mama Lahoa booked. We get a 45 minute soak in their natural salt water hot tubs then a 90 minute hot stone couple’s massage. It’s going to be so great!!! Although I’m super excited to go, I keep looking at the numbers growing as we stash our cash to go…and I can’t help but thinking what an awesome shopping trip it would make for, lol. Just cancel Hawaii and let’s go shopping! But I would never…haha I’m too excited.

Travel Log:
This last weekend we spent up at Iron Springs campground for the Warren Family Reunion, which is always a lot of fun. We drove up Friday and came home yesterday. It was a nice relaxing weekend that consisted of lots of good food, lots of lounging around, reading magazines, lots of taking the dogs running – they love camping! We took some pretty fun trail rides in the new Ranger! (I was so scared we were going to run into a bear- they had advisories everywhere that the bears were VERY active this year, YIKES!) I got quite a few good long naps, and I loved sitting around the campfire. Justin also got to play archery golf (which I think is his favorite part of the reunion). All together, it was a great weekend! Thanks for all your hard work everyone!