I haven't posted in a while, but it's just been kind of a run-of-the-mill summer so far, though we've thoroughly been enjoying it! June was pretty low-key, with a few softball games and Skip basically working his tush off to make some extra money for our trip up north in July. The 4th of July weekend was fun, but I think we all kind of overdid it with being in the sun! We were able to go down to Woodstock Saturday to swim with Nancy and Jim and Cate for a bit, then also spent some time with Mannings at the yacht club on Sunday. Preston had tons of fun playing in the sand and riding in a kayak and paddleboat with me.
We had a really nice trip up north, and Skip finally got to relax and go fishing all week. He, Jim and Michael managed to catch a nice batch of fish that my dad fried up for lunch on Thursday the 7th. It was pretty hot and steamy up there the first couple of days, but cooled down to nice sweatshirt weather by the middle of the week. Good thing we weren't there the next week when it was stifling... We might have been sort of miserable! Skip headed down to Neenah on that Friday to join his band for a gig down there, then we all were home by Saturday afternoon.
This past weekend was a little crazy, but good overall. I got home from work on Friday and Skip left town again, this time heading north (with the Evil Red Dog) for Kevin Roberson's bachelor party with Munch. The boys had a great time just chilling on the lake and drinking... at least that's what Skip told me they did! Preston and I got up and went over to Waukesha to help Harrisons move down to Crystal Lake. They finally sold their house and found a nice place down in CL, so it was time for their Wisconsin residence to come to an end. It's bittersweet, because we will miss being able to do things with them up here, but in all reality it will still happen. Just not during the week. We're excited for their new life down there, though, and for Andy to finally not have to commute 3 hours each day to and from McHenry.
Anyways, Mom and Dad took the kids, while I packed up their closets in my car and we filled up the van and truck with all the non-heavy things. The movers got to the house and started on the big stuff, so we headed south. After moving stuff into the CL house, I took a quick break back and my mom and dad's, then we all finished what we could and had dinner back at S&A's. The movers didn't get to the house until 7pm, ridiculously, so Harrisons had a pretty late first night. On Sunday, Mom, me, Preston and Megan ran some errands around CL, then we went back over to S&A's for a little while before heading up to Woodstock. After a little swimming and dinner, P and I headed home.
In the meantime, Skip is now up farther north in Elcho, WI serving as Medical Director for the boy scout camp he attended and worked at in his scout days. He will be there all week tending to the medical needs of the kids up there, at the same time enjoying the various activities the camp has. I'm excited to hear stories!
Aside from this coming weekend of hopefully some downtime, August is looking busy already. I think I'm going bridesmaid dress shopping with Cunninghams (yay!) next weekend, then the weekend after that I will be down in Illinois for Jes's baby shower then in Chicago cheering Sarison on in the Rock & Roll 1/2 marathon. Then the next weekend it's back down to central IL for Rusty's wedding in Morton! Holy balls the summer flies by!