August 11th? Where has the year gone.....

Middle of August?? Really?? I can't believe how quickly time has flown by. Seems like just yesterday we were celebrating Christmas and then mine and Jon's birthdays in January. Here we are almost all the way through summer. I'm convinced that time goes by much quicker the older we get and even faster once we have children. I remember the years seeming to d-r-a-g on and on when I was young and in school. Feels strange that Jon and I will already be celebrating our one year anniversary on August 21st.

Before summer had arrived I had all of these grand ideas in mind...tons of bbq's with friends, fires in our backyard fire pit every weekend, boating & wake boarding. Sadly, we haven't had any bbq's and haven't went boating ONE single time. I think this marks the first summer in my lifetime that I haven't been boating. Don't get me wrong...we have done a lot of very exciting things this summer! We went camping over the 4th of July, went to Vegas a couple weekends after that to stay with friends, we've went swimming, spent time with family, attended concerts at Oak Knoll winery and just enjoyed the beautiful weather. This past week Jon flew to Nebraska with his brother for his grandma's funeral. His parents had driven back in their motor home 2 weeks before. They all made the journey home in the motor home and from what I hear, had a great time. Jon said all of their stomachs were sore from laughing.

I'm sad to see summer getting closer to coming to an end. Thankfully, the Fall in Portland is something in itself to look forward to. I always look forward to the trees starting to change colors and the cooling of the weather from hot to a warmish cool temperature (if that's really a type of weather??) . Jon is anxiously awaiting the start of another season of Nebraska football. He's already reading the daily articles online about how the beginning of practices are going. Just another month and we'll be traveling to the University of Washington to see our beloved Huskers play on this side of the country. Go Big Red!!!

Another summer almost done and gone...............