Feels like summer just began.

The other day I was looking at the calendar on my phone and I realized that I start work in 3 1/2 weeks. That is less than one month people! For some reason it felt like I had a lot longer before I needed to get my classroom ready and start mapping out my lesson plans. I mean, it is still July! Our Summer has been packed full of fun things and I guess that has just made the time fly.

I thought that I would have a lot more down time this summer but as soon as June hit life stayed pretty busy. Between my little weeding business, helping watch my sister's kids for a few days, and getting ready for our Stake's Pioneer Trek, the month of June flew by. We went on Trek on the 26th and it was a blast! Some people kept talking about Trek like it would be horrible and we would just have to cope with it while we were there. It was totally opposite. I was a little nervous about who our kids would be and if our family would all get along, but our family was awesome! We had such a strange little mix of kids but somehow we all just meshed and everyone was so nice and got along so well. Here we are in our awesome pioneer get-up.

Here is our awesome family at the very end of our journey.

I was super sun burned at the end, exhausted and filthy but I would definitely do it again. We are super crazy and the day after we got back from Trek we headed out on a road trip to visit my brother Matt's family in Washington. It is a 13 1/2 hour drive to Bainbridge Island so we broke it up into two days by staying the first night at my Grandparent's house in Idaho. It was a long drive but it was so worth it. It was so fun to see my beautiful little nieces, especially my new little niece Rosie, who I had not met yet. The weather was perfect and the Island is beautiful. We mostly just hung out with my Brother's family but we did spend one day in Seattle and spent the 4th of July at their friends beautiful home on the waterfront. It was an ideal week and there is a part of me that wishes I were still there. 

On our drive there we got stuck for an hour in a mountain pass because of rock blasting. At least it was a beautiful view with fresh mountain air.

 We spend out first day on the beach with my beautiful nieces. The ocean was freezing so I mostly just hung out on the beach.

 The next day Sam and I took the ferry where we met my brother after work in Seattle!

 It is a beautiful city!

 We ate delicious Korean food.

 The next day I got to meet for lunch with my friend Amy who I had not seen in 7 years.

 This is the view from the backyard of the house we spent the 4th of July at. It was beautiful!

 On our last night we had a delicious seafood dinner with the best Salmon ever and fresh caught crab courtesy of my brother Matt.

 It was a long drive home but after almost two weeks of being gone, we were happy to see this state sign. It was a great vacation.

The last few weeks we have been able to relax and get back to regular life. Now we are just getting ready for the 24th celebrations and then we are off for a weekend camping trip with my family. We are just enjoying the rest of summer now, even though there are only 3 1/2 weeks of it left. I guess now I should start stressing about my classroom layout and lesson plans, which I am actually pretty excited for.