Go away.

Rain, rain go away!  I know I'm not the only one that can't take another day of it, right?  The lawn needs mowed.  We need to get Will's fall pictures finished.  Unfortunately, the leaves are going away with the wind.  Or in todays case, came crashing down with the tree that fell.

It feels like Spring....but I know that warm, balmy weather isn't going to follow this rainy season.  But mostly, I'm just tired of this being my view.  If i have to work, at least the sun could shine in my window.

Getting started.

No school day!  We had brunch, played at the duck house and laughed and talked.  Then we headed home so Will could get to work.  He's on a deadline, you know.

What do you say on the day your baby starts applying to college?  

I've been at a loss for words all night.  I thought I would have something witty or funny to say by the time I sat down to write this.  Or maybe something insightful.  Words that would express how quickly time passes and that this, like all things, is just one step in the walk of raising children.

Instead, I have random thoughts.  I'm speechless.  Stunned.  Terrified.  Proud.  Nervous.  Excited.  Worried.  Thrilled.  Old.  Not that old.  Did I mention proud already?  

While he may have mumbled "I hate this" several times, I know he was as excited as excited could be.  He's ready.  Now let's just home that Ohio State is ready for him!!

 

Crap, I forgot again!

The good news?  We had a fabulous weekend!

We ordered the new appliances for the duck house.  We picked new light fixtures (although I don't know that Jeff had a "fabulous" time with that!).  We got to stay up late, watch football, sleep in...it was awesome.  Oh, and we got a request for a showing on the house tomorrow.  It really was awesome!

Unfortunately, I was so busy having fun that I forgot to take a picture or capture any of it.  So tomorrow I'm putting Will and Hunter in charge of providing a picture or two so I can get back on track.  The whole away at camp thing has really thrown me off.

So tomorrow, I promise to be back with something grand!  Ok, maybe not grand, but at least acceptable :D

Go Panthers!

Its Homecoming!  

I'm not sure why Homecoming always seem to bring nasty weather with it, but it does.  Normally it's just cold.  This year, it's cold and pouring rain.  It really doesn't draw you out to the game, but then again, neither does our football team.

So when Will decided to stay in to watch Arrow...I wasn't all that surprised.  I mean, who wants to stand in the rain for hours, cheering for a team that hasn't won a game (or lead a quarter) in two years?  Oh, wait.  That is Will.  He was home for 10 minutes when he decided that crappy weather wasn't going to keep him from enjoying his last Homecoming football game....win or lose. 

It wasn't until he was out the door that he words sunk in.  It's our first last.

The irony.

Even the fortune cookie writer is a smart a$$.  As though we don't have enough sarcasm in this house.....

You stink.

Hahaha!

I was so proud of myself for blogging on Monday that I totally forgot to blog last night.  I'm really stinking at this lately!  So it's either a sign that I have nothing to say (which is NEVER the case) or that life is so chaotic that I can't even remember the everyday things.  I'm thinking it's the later.

Most of what's keep me so busy are the STUPID STINK BUGS!

Luckily, they're confined to the sun room and the living room, but dear heavens, I can't take anymore.  I've been chasing them around to capture them in water bottles all day long.  Jeff thinks I'm crazy, but it works.  The poor little things don't see it coming!

But watching them crawl outside my window all day is really starting to creep me out.  When's the first freeze?

It's been soooooo long!!

Holy vacation, Batman!!  I've been gone for a while.  Did you miss me?  I have to admit, I missed looking at pictures from our day....now matter how lame they could be.  But never fear, I might not have blogged over my break, but I definitely didn't forget to take lots of pictures!

So here it is in a nutshell!

We took a short road trip to drop this one off....

With this one.

Then this one...

and I headed to camp where I could do this for the weekend.

And Jeff did all the "camp" work....like cleaning the outside of the camper.  This was all I got to help with that, lol.  I offered to help, but something about the boot on a ladder didn't appeal to Jeff.

 After an incredibly long property owners meeting, Jeff had to come home.  Which left me with 3+ days of free time to do this....

and this....

  And when I wasn't working on that, I was driving the golf cart around to enjoy this....

 And whenever I got a little lonely, I just spent my time talking to this one.  He was awesome and visited each and every afternoon!

By late in the week, I had to sneak away from camp just to join civilization for a bit.  So I scoured the antique stores in Logan for an afternoon (boot and all!).  Here were my awesome findings...

I wanted to bring them home for the Duck House...but Jeff didn't think they were nearly as cool as I did.  I also found this....

And when you stare at it for a bit and figure it out (and how funny it is!), you'll know that it took everything I had not to buy it for a certain Notre Dame fan for Christmas :D  

The next day, they all arrived!!  We spent Saturday passing out candy (in 10 layers of clothes!) to all the trick or treaters!  I'm not sure who had more fun..but I do know who ate the most Sour Patch Kids and Swedish Fish!

After an evening of football and a morning of getting camp ready to close, we had to say our goodbyes.  And in case you were wondering, it takes this....

And this...

 to get this....

  Then we all had to say goodbye.  The golf cart was neatly stowed.  All ready to come tearing out in the Spring.

 The camper all closed up.

So the season is over and it was a wonderful ten days that I got to spend there to end it.  So until April, here are my thoughts on that....

Now, it's time to prepare for a move, Thanksgiving, Christmas and snow.  My parting thoughts?  Only 190 days until we can open back up for the season!