Last Moments of Summer

The last moments of summer are finally upon us!  I know I don’t have school aged children or I am not a teacher (anymore, well at least an aide anymore) but seeing all the school supplies, hearing the chatter amongst all the kids, and the days slowly getting shorter and shorter, gives me the excited sense that fall is coming.  I love fall.  PERIOD.  Fall is my favorite season hands down.  I love the colors, I love the crispness in the air, I love all the preparation for the holidays.  I. Just. Love. Fall.  The bad thing is I live in El Paso which means I still have at least 2 if not 3 more months of summer weather, but summer activities follow the same schedule that the rest of them do, they shut down all pools after Labor Day.  We started out spending a lot of time at the “Wat-ter Park” as Gracie says but we took some time off of it due to busy busy busy schedules.  Saturday, we spent the whole day in the water.  We started off by having breakfast at Cracker Barrel.  Matt loves their breakfast.  He wanted to start of our family weekend with a good hearty breakfast.  We had a couple of visitors with us this trip:

Daddy had babysitting duty while Gracie played in a rocking chair!Such a sweet little face with a precious smile.  I love this girl.

Princess Bella (supposed to be Belle) and Princess Sleeping Doodie have been attached to Gracie’s hip.  We DO NOT leave the house with out Bella & Sleeping Doodie.  We will have a state of emergency if they are left behind.

After breakfast we started out at the kiddie water park on post.  It wasn’t very busy but there were a lot of bigger kids that were not very mindful of the smaller kids.  We did stay for about an hour.  Gracie was the picture perfect child.  She got out of the pool easily when it was lifeguard break.  She also did not throw her usual temper tantrum when we left either.  I took 195 pictures at the pool.  In my defense, I found a setting on my camera that will take 3 pictures at a time.  My last camera did the same thing but took like 20 pictures so I had never tried this feature before on this camera.  Leave it to me to find a setting that is perfect when you have a toddler when I have all but worn out my camera.  Here are a few (or many) of my favorites from the day.

 

           After all the excitement in the kiddie pool we went to the big pool where we found out that Gracie loves to be on her own, with no hands holding on to her with a life jacket on.  Of course we were always right there, but she loved it.  She was just a kicking all around like she has been swimming forever.  She is such a little fish.  I didn’t get any pictures at the big pool, I was just having so much fun with Matt and Gracie.  We were exhausted after all of that water that we went home and just took it easy for the rest of the night.

Today was movie day in the Cunningham household.  We black out the windows with blankets and watch movies all day.  Gracie preferred Wonder Pets in her play room.  It was so nice and relaxing.  The weekend actually went by very very slow.  Such a nice change of pace for us.  We are really trying hard to take it easy the next couple of weekends because time is going to start flying for us.  We have a lot going on in the next couple off months but more on that later.

Other then spending time outside in our little pool and trying to stay cool in the desert heat, it has been relatively calm.  We aren’t used to that but I have to admit, it’s nice!  Tomorrow is another week started which means only 4 more days until Friday.  Friday is a training day for us so I don’t have to be at work until 8 which is a nice change since we are used to getting up at 4:30!  I am going to leave you some pictures from  late last week.  After we got home on Thursday, we had some outside time where the entire household except me was enjoying the pool  The puppies jumped in for some fun and ended up getting a bath in the process! he he!