Hello everyone!!
I hope you are enjoying the last few weeks of summer... As for me, I've been ready for fall since about May so I'm done with summer. My house already has fall decorations and even though there are only a few, they make me all warm and happy inside.
Anywho... Life has been pretty much normal and uneventful the last few weeks. Work, work, work. It's a good thing that I like my job. Otherwise I would be miserable..
I do have some new family news to share: My mom got married the other day! She and her now husband decided to just go to the Justice of the Peace and get it done. It sort of took me by surprise since she had been discussing having at least a small wedding not a few weeks prior. Oh well.. I'm always an advocate of JP weddings. It's worked out for me. :)
So she got married and then next week my little sister ties the knot! This is craziness. Everyone's lives are moving onward and upward it seems. I'm still upset that I won't be there for her wedding, but I know it'll be lovely without me. It's so surreal having both of my parents remarried now and my little sister right behind.. Life is so crazy sometimes.
Besides that little bit of news.. we finally went kayaking! We've been trying to get out again for so long, but work schedules have been in the way. Over the long weekend, though, we were able to be out on the water for three of the four days. The first day we went to a new reservoir. It was really lovely out on the water. It definitely takes some getting used to for the paddling.. my shoulders were not having it that day. We didn't stay out long that night since I had worked all day, but it was still a nice little jaunt.
On the second day we went to the same reservoir but launched from a different point. The water seemed a lot murkier and stagnant for some reason. We decided to risk taking a couple of Blue Moon's with us to relax with. We found a little alcove where the hubs fished for awhile while we drank a bottle. It was so relaxing and we had such a good time together.
The last day we went on a river for the first time. I was a little nervous about paddling against a current, but luckily there was barely any force on this river. Unfortunately, that's because there hasn't been a lot of rain which means there were a lot of very shallow areas. We had to drag our kayaks over a few spots to get to deeper water. We did encounter some rough, rocky areas where the current was pretty strong. It got a little intense at one point when I was attempting to walk my kayak over a shallow but rough spot and almost lost my paddle and then my boat. I managed to hold on to them and not get swept away myself, but it was close. Getting over those rough and shallow parts was definitely an unintended workout. We got quite a ways up the river, but we were coming to a lot of shallow areas and didn't really want to drag our kayaks anymore so we decided to head back. The trip down was a blast. Coming back over those rocky and rough areas is a lot more exciting than going up. I felt like an extreme kayaker (even though it was probably the un-roughest "rough" area ever). It was an amazing day to say the least.
I managed to "finish" the summer on the water, got some sun on my skin to take into the fall, and beefed up my shoulder muscles... I think I bid farewell alright.
I hope you all did something fun over your Labor day weekend. Are you as ready for fall as I am, or still holding on to the heat??
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I hope you are enjoying the last few weeks of summer... As for me, I've been ready for fall since about May so I'm done with summer. My house already has fall decorations and even though there are only a few, they make me all warm and happy inside.
Anywho... Life has been pretty much normal and uneventful the last few weeks. Work, work, work. It's a good thing that I like my job. Otherwise I would be miserable..
I do have some new family news to share: My mom got married the other day! She and her now husband decided to just go to the Justice of the Peace and get it done. It sort of took me by surprise since she had been discussing having at least a small wedding not a few weeks prior. Oh well.. I'm always an advocate of JP weddings. It's worked out for me. :)
So she got married and then next week my little sister ties the knot! This is craziness. Everyone's lives are moving onward and upward it seems. I'm still upset that I won't be there for her wedding, but I know it'll be lovely without me. It's so surreal having both of my parents remarried now and my little sister right behind.. Life is so crazy sometimes.
Besides that little bit of news.. we finally went kayaking! We've been trying to get out again for so long, but work schedules have been in the way. Over the long weekend, though, we were able to be out on the water for three of the four days. The first day we went to a new reservoir. It was really lovely out on the water. It definitely takes some getting used to for the paddling.. my shoulders were not having it that day. We didn't stay out long that night since I had worked all day, but it was still a nice little jaunt.
On the second day we went to the same reservoir but launched from a different point. The water seemed a lot murkier and stagnant for some reason. We decided to risk taking a couple of Blue Moon's with us to relax with. We found a little alcove where the hubs fished for awhile while we drank a bottle. It was so relaxing and we had such a good time together.
The last day we went on a river for the first time. I was a little nervous about paddling against a current, but luckily there was barely any force on this river. Unfortunately, that's because there hasn't been a lot of rain which means there were a lot of very shallow areas. We had to drag our kayaks over a few spots to get to deeper water. We did encounter some rough, rocky areas where the current was pretty strong. It got a little intense at one point when I was attempting to walk my kayak over a shallow but rough spot and almost lost my paddle and then my boat. I managed to hold on to them and not get swept away myself, but it was close. Getting over those rough and shallow parts was definitely an unintended workout. We got quite a ways up the river, but we were coming to a lot of shallow areas and didn't really want to drag our kayaks anymore so we decided to head back. The trip down was a blast. Coming back over those rocky and rough areas is a lot more exciting than going up. I felt like an extreme kayaker (even though it was probably the un-roughest "rough" area ever). It was an amazing day to say the least.
I managed to "finish" the summer on the water, got some sun on my skin to take into the fall, and beefed up my shoulder muscles... I think I bid farewell alright.
I hope you all did something fun over your Labor day weekend. Are you as ready for fall as I am, or still holding on to the heat??
