Auffy Boys: August 2014

It's hard to believe, but there is only one week left of summer before Cruz starts first grade! Wasn't I just picking up my little kindergarter from his last day of school? These past 3 months flew by so fast, now I'm curious, did we really just have a crazy summer or is this just our life now...

It probably didn't help that we started the summer off by moving into a new house the first week, we've had many projects around the new house keeping us busy all summer and I'm sure many more to come!

We had two weddings this summer, both of which either Jake or I were in. So this also meant showers, bachelor parties and bachlorette parties.

Cruz had swimming lessons once a week (where he became quite the little fish, even jumped off the high board!)

I had daycare kids at my house every day during the week all summer long which was new for me. Starting in the fall I will only be open Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays so I'm hoping that will help calm things down a little.

We took a family vacation with my parents, Katie, Jay and Makenna to Kings Pointe in Storm Lake, IA. This was the perfect vacation for all 4 kids ranging in ages from 18 months to 8 years old, we will definitely go back again!

I ran my first triathalon as a team with Miranda. She swam and biked and I did the run. This is something I will definitely do again as well :)

We celebrated the 4th, we went to Old Settlers in North Bend, made a trip to the zoo, re-put up a fence (long story), had a garage sale, enjoyed family dinners...let's just say I think we were busy every single weekend!

This picture below was on my Time Hop app (love this app) tonight, this was taken 5 years ago when we made our last trip to the ocean in North Carolina before we moved back to Nebraska. When I think back to this time in our life I just remember it being so calm and so, lets call it "boring". With no extended family in North Carolina most of our time was spent with just our immediate family. Sure we had friends but I guess we didn't do a whole lot with them. I remember thinking on the weekends when we lived in North Carolina how I couldn't wait to get back to Nebraska so if we were bored we could just run over to the grandparents for a visit or call up one of our many friends to come over with the kids for a play date. Flash forward 5 years, now 3 little boys instead of one, and our life is far from boring, it's almost crazy sometimes. And at times I find myself wishing for those North Carolina weekends so I could have that feeling of being bored so we could take a random trip to the grandparents or have friends over. This might be how life is from here on out so I should just be grateful for the time I share with my family, whether its boring or crazy :) But maybe next summer I will make it my goal to not over book us!