I am not sure I can even remember back to the beginning of summer. We were pretty busy with baseball. Drake had his normal summer team/league and then Gunner was playing summer league for the high school. The high school did not have enough kids to fill 2 full teams so the freshman/jv summer team pulled a couple of kids up from Drake's team, Drake was one of them. For about a month, we had 2 of them playing on 3 teams, which made it almost every night and several weekends. I am sure there are highlights I should share, but quite honestly, who can remember that far back???
We did manage to get some camping in as well. In June we went down to Diamond Lake fishing. We all know how crappy the weather was here, well it was not much better there and the fishing sucked on top of it. Got skunked but atleast we got away for the weekend (Saturday poured buckets, was socked in and couldn't even see across the lake!)
We went to South Beach for 4th of July, that was nice, the weather was great, had lots of vistors at our campsite, went the beach and Drake made a new friend. He had a squirrel that he had feed peanuts and would come up and sit on his belly while he feed it. Very cute!! (again, we had crab, they went fishing, don't remember the details but nice to get away)
The next weekend we went to Clear Lake, had a game on Friday, so did not even get out of town until 10:00. That campground is not a good one to pull into at 11:30 at night and try to set up and set up a tent. I don't think we woke too many people up. Drake took a friend so they were out in the rubber raft, Mark Gunner and I were in a boat. Caught some fish, threw most back, got some sun and relaxed. Walker did catch the monster fish of the weekend, he was surprised, I think it was the biggest one he has ever caught. Not sure he was real happy with us making him clean it. Gotta learn sometime right?
Then it was time for the Linn County Fair. Last year was chaos for us at fair time and so I had promised Gunner this year we would camp at fair. WOW!! That was an experience. It was fun and he enjoyed, but momma was tired by the time it was over. Gunner did well, he ended up placing 4th over all (over 100 pigs) in Market and took Champion Reserve (2nd) in his class in showmanship. He was able to auction this year and did really, really well, we were very please (Thank you Grandpa Bill!!)
During that time Mark's sister was here from France with her girls. The boys spent some time with them, we went to a couple Corvallis Knight's games and FINALLY finished the other side of our fence (Did first side in May!) (Had to cut a big limb off the tree and made a bigger mess before we could finish!)
August was still pretty hectic, we spent a weekend in Seattle (I did blog that!), Missy had her 40th Bday (blogged pics of that HEHE) had a wedding and then spent Labor Day weekend at the coast. WHEW!!! It blew by!! I did manage, pretty much all summer, to keep with my exercise, I try get my 3.5 miles in everyday (some days more, some days a little less) and even had some sessions with a personal trainer (he kicked my butt!).
We are now officially back in school mode, football mode and soon hunting mode (Gunner has never left the fishing mode, he is at Diamond Lake fishing as I type!) I will try to be a little better with keeping up, but sometimes there is just not enough hours in the day!!
