Summer...Summer...Summer time!

We have had so much fun this summer!  It has been crazy.  We have been busy busy busy, playing, completing projects, Vacation Bible School, going to movies, riding rides at Hershey Park, going to the water park at Hershey Park (can you tell we like Hershey Park?), sleeping in "Grandma's room", getting ice cream at Friendly's, hanging out with friends and being together as a family (whenever Chris' schedule permits).  I don't know if I will ever get our blog caught up, but maybe while we are in Reno/Utah...10 day :)  Eeek!  We are excited!

Here are some highlights of our June:

Last night Chris and I went on a date!  Yes, it has been that long...I am pretty sure I blogged about our last date we had.  Ha!  We hit up an AMAZING Thai restaurant (Bangkok 56) for the best dinner I have had in a while!  Their chicken was melt in your mouth good.  Chris and I agreed that we would be making that place a "usual" while we are here.  Then we headed over a little state park "Fort Hunter" and talked and walked near the river...and of course...documented our time together.  (P.S...it was Chris who pulled out the camera first!)  Finally, we ended the night by going to Baskin Robbins (my favorite ice cream shop) only to be disappointed.  In 29 1/2 years, I have never, I repeat, never walked in to a BR 31 flavors and been disappointed...there was no Peanut Butter and Chocolate!  What?  So I walked out...Chris was all confused...he just doesn't understand my deep love for this flavor...and I feel like it is a BR staple???  What the heck?!

We have had many dates at Hershey Park and Tracen never tires of wanting to take a picture with the candy characters.  Logan on the other hand is a bit skeptical and won't even go near them!

Last weekend we took Daddy to the movies!  We saw Brave and loved it...maybe it was a bit scary...but we liked it none-the-less.  We are excited to see Madagascar 3 in Reno :)

 

Through Tracen's school, we found out about Vacation Bible School.  It is a big thing out here.  Basically, churches provide 1 week of 2 1/2 hours of FREE bible school for kids 3 - 10.  We jumped all over the idea.  Tracen loved it...Logan was a bit nervous, but it was also late at night (6 - 8:30pm) and we weren't very good at getting naps before...because we have been playing so much.  But they had lots of fun doing crafts, singing songs and learning bible stories.  After the first night, for FHE, we took the boys to Friendly's for some ice cream.  We really like to flex our muscles around here lately.

With vacation comes a love for not sleeping in our own bed.  I remember this as a kid too...there is always something more fun about sleeping somewhere other than your room.  So the boys have had a lot of sleepovers in "Grandma's room."  Don't worry, they kick each other all night, I just happened to snap a picture before the wildness.

With the heat, we have traveled to the water park a TON!  Our favorite is the Wave Pool.  Water is the best way to beat 98 degree weather with 80% humidity...seriously...can we say, "melting"?

And we really like to eat oreos while at the pool...can you tell?!?

I made a dress!  One of my many projects was making a short-sleeve maxi dress with my friend.  Mine is a little wild and crazy, but when I saw the fabric, it reminded me of my personality...busy...colorful and fun :)  We finished them up this week and wore them to church today. You can't really even tell they are the same dress since our fabric is so different.  I love her stripes!  I actually have the same fabric to make a skirt...that is on the project list for tomorrow! 

Lots more fun, but this post is already ridiculously long!  In Chris news, he is no longer an INTERN!  Yay!  Congrats babe!  He is starting Ortho Trauma tomorrow for 10 weeks!  It is going to be a busy year and I plan to keep us busy so that it makes the time fly by!  I am so proud of his hard work and how good he is with the boys.  They miss their dad ToNs when he is gone, but when he is home, he is so good at making them feel like the most important little dudes in the world.  I love our little family and the time we are having here in PA.  While we miss seeing our extended family, we have really felt like we have fit right in here in PA.