The girls are back in school and I am looking around and taking a deep breath and it is so nice to feel like my life is not as hectic as it has been the past couple of years. Don't get me wrong, the house is still and probably always will be something of a disaster, but I, Personally, am in a happy place.
Probably the biggest highlight of the summer - our trip to Oregon.
This is the 2nd annual trip to this house. It is an amazing place and when confronted with not getting the house when we wanted next year, we chose to come a different week rather than find a new house to come to.
We were watching summer slip away from us so we planned a quick trip down to Zion's Park. This is the first trip we have taken the girls down there since Red was a baby. We stayed at the Hampton Inn, which was nice, and hiked around. The first day we sort of accidentally missed the turn off to the shuttle parking lot and ended up driving out the other side of the canyon without actually going up into it, so since that took up most of the day, we went back and swam in the very nice hotel pool until dinner. The next day, though, we caught the shuttle and did a bunch of hikes and had a very nice day.
Red and Blondie are in the same school now, catching the same bus and on the same schedule. They were both put into groups of students without many of their good friends this year. That is kind of normal for Blondie, but for Red she's always had at least one really good friend in most of her classes. This year all of her good friends are in another group, she's mostly alone in this one. Same with Blondie, who was bothered by this more than Red. They are having good days and bad, but for the most part things are going well.
The week after school started was Blondie's biggest horse show to date. It was a schooling show, still, but required her to miss a day of school and she and I camped over at the county fairgrounds where it was held. But I haven't uploaded pictures from that yet… it will be for next time.
We were watching summer slip away from us so we planned a quick trip down to Zion's Park. This is the first trip we have taken the girls down there since Red was a baby. We stayed at the Hampton Inn, which was nice, and hiked around. The first day we sort of accidentally missed the turn off to the shuttle parking lot and ended up driving out the other side of the canyon without actually going up into it, so since that took up most of the day, we went back and swam in the very nice hotel pool until dinner. The next day, though, we caught the shuttle and did a bunch of hikes and had a very nice day.
Red and Blondie are in the same school now, catching the same bus and on the same schedule. They were both put into groups of students without many of their good friends this year. That is kind of normal for Blondie, but for Red she's always had at least one really good friend in most of her classes. This year all of her good friends are in another group, she's mostly alone in this one. Same with Blondie, who was bothered by this more than Red. They are having good days and bad, but for the most part things are going well.
The week after school started was Blondie's biggest horse show to date. It was a schooling show, still, but required her to miss a day of school and she and I camped over at the county fairgrounds where it was held. But I haven't uploaded pictures from that yet… it will be for next time.
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