Summer Fun in August

It's felt like such a nice, long summer filled with all that a summer should have!

At the beginning of August, Lewis ended his month long tap class. He loved it! His class did a very cute little dance performance in the studio to end the class. We were so proud of him! He has informed me that it's his most favorite thing to do, so we're signed up for the fall!

We had a hilariously terrible attempt at a beach day earlier this month. We thought we'd try going to a little beach at a lake about 45 minutes away. It's a lake where Mike did a triathlon a couple years ago. We figured it would be a nice, calm scene for the boys, and thus a little more relaxing for mom and dad.

So, off we went. Only trouble was, they were setting up for some event when we got there, and the beach was closed. On top of which, turns out, it's a private beach. Drat. We asked directions to another beach at a close by state park. We got there, and the woman at the gate told us that the beach was closed due to high bacteria levels. Ugh! At this point, we thought we'd just head for the shore. Long Beach Island looked to be the closest. By this time, we'd already spend a good 1.5 hours driving, and we no longer had an early start on the day or on the Jersey beach traffic. We ended up in bumper to bumper traffic and thought we'd never make it. At that point, we saw a little lake off to the side of the road. Done, done, and done! We parked, and spent a lovely couple hours on a semi-nice beach by a semi-nice lake with, well, a very Jersey crowd all around. Better luck next time! But, the boys did have fun at the beach!

 

We had a lovely morning at Howell Farm recently. Beau is really into animals and animal noises now. He was over the moon to hear the cow actually mooing, the pigs oinking, and the oxen...working. The water pump was quite the  hit. Lewis pumped many buckets to pour into the horses' trough.

Rachel came to stay with us for a week while her mom and sisters were up at camp. We had such a fun time! She was so cute to play with the boys tons. Here she is entertaining Beau with his new favorite activity. 

I also had the most heavenly weekend with my dear friend Debby visiting. It was so nice to catch up so much and talk about all sorts of ideas and thoughts and musings. She is the best! We all loved having her!

And, here are a few pictures from a little photo shoot that I did with Lewis in preparation for his talk in primary. He gave his first talk last Sunday, and he did such a great job. We were so proud of him! He was very excited to do it, spoke nice and clearly, gave just a couple little parts without my help, and was the cutest little Sunbeam ever!