Summer Sun

Summer is over...yay!  We love the summer activities but we get very tired of the heat around here.  Luckily the weather has cooled down a little now that fall has come.  We haven't even been to the beach in a few months because it was just so hot!  The boys and are are at their school (in the A/C!) 3 days a week, even through the summer.  Other than that we have been trying some of the indoor activities around here or just playing at home.  We've done some great traveling this summer!

At the beginning of the summer Mike and I went to Italy with my family and the boys stayed with Mike's parents for a whole week!  Camden had the time of his life!  He got to go to the pool and eat snowcones all week.  He was in three year old heaven. :)  Hudson missed us a little more but we knew he was very well taken care of.  We had a wonderful vacation.  We stayed in a small town outside of Florence and got to visit Florence, Rome, and Venice.  We kind of got an overview of a few cities.  We probably could have seen more towns but we also got to enjoy the beautiful property of the house we were staying at.  The landscape was gorgeous, we ate some great food, and saw a ton of historic sights.  It was awesome!

The Villa we stayed at

View of Montespertoli (where we stayed) while walking in

Florence

View of the farmland surrounding the villa

One foot in Rome, one foot in Vatican City

Vatican

Sistine Chapel

Our whole group at the Coliseum

Venice

The other trip we took was up to Fort Worth. Mike had to be in Arlington for a training so we decided to go with him and extend the trip. I hadn't been back in a year and a half! We were able to see some friends and do some of the Fort Worth things we hadn't done before. We took the boys to the Fort Worth Museum. We also took the Trinity Park mini-train ride. The kids both thought that was cool. While the boys were napping in the car, we drove past our old house and all throughout our old neighborhood. I really miss it! I forgot how much I liked it. Another fun thing we did was go to a Rangers game. We took Camden twice when he was a baby and Hudson had never been. They both seemed to really enjoy it. 

We have the same picture from last time we visited TCU, when Camden was one and a half

 Go Rangers!

Other than that we've been having family time and time with friends. Our parents have visited and we've visited them. Camden and Hudson's "Aunt Marcy" and my good friend Heather visited us for a long weekend. It was great to see them! Marcy just moved to Bolivia so it was the last time seeing her for a while. The kids made them both play with them all weekend and thought that Marcy and Heather came to visit only them. haha. Mike had to spend two separate weeks away recently so we are glad he's back. :) He's been Mr. Fix It this summer. Well, sort of. haha. He fixed a plumbing leak we had outside and fixed some things around the house. Our A/C broke earlier this summer and we ended up having to replace the whole outside unit! It runs a lot better (thankfully!) but of course we had to get help with that one. :) Camden started swim lessons this summer and learned how to be a lot braver in the water! Now he loves showing off his skills.

Bayfront Splash Park

Playing with foamy soap