Summer Adventures Pt. II

Summer is officially arrived! Tomorrow is Nathan's last day of school, and then it's two and a half months of sun, laziness, me trying to figure out how to keep the zoo animals at bay. But relief is on the way because the week after school ends, we are taking a family trip to San Antonio. I am very excited about this trip (and though I love to give the kids new experiences, and want them to be well traveled, I am never really genuinely excited about the actual act of traveling, it's always hard on everyone). But this trip will be different for a few reasons:

• My parents are traveling with us. For once, the adults will outnumber the children, which hasn't been the case for years.
• My family will be there. I have three cousins that are local, and my Aunt and her daughter who live in MD will be in town. And Nathan and Katie are pretty close, and I want the kids to be close to their cousins.
• Nolan's big birthday party! It should be a blast. Lots of family on both sides, lots of food, lots of cake. Perfect. Hopefully my mother-in-law won't bring bitterness with her (she's mad because we didn't change the time of the party).

When we get back, it'll will be time to start fixing up the house and put it on the market. I am hoping to god we won't have our house sitting on the market for 9 months. We're hoping to sell it by late Fall, early Winter. There's also going to be a lot of commuting from here to Seattle to look at houses up there. Hopefully we'll find something for the right size that isn't a small fortune. Steven's supposed to get a nice long leave and a big fat severance pay, but knowing the military, it's not going to happen when we want it to. Oh well.



Here's to a fun summer!