Where does the time go?

I'm embarrassed to admit that my last post was in March when Carter had his tonsils and adenoids removed. Summer, as it usually does, flew by and now the leaves are beginning to fall. Summer was a lot of fun. Here are a few highlights:

- We spent the 4th of July in Currie as it's the big city celebration over the 4th every year. Carter enjoyed the bounce house at the park and we spent some time at the lake at Grandma and Grandpa Zens. Jesse and I spent a night out at the ever-famous Currie Street Dance which was a lot of fun..Aunt Bekah joined us as well

- Carter turned the big 2.0 July 19th. We had a small birthday party for him at home and Grandma and Grandpa Zens came over for pizza and a tractor ice cream cake. Carter got some new tractors and a truck for his birthday that night and a wagon from G&G Zens which he really enjoyed this summer.

- Carter enjoyed lots of time outdoors at daycare, around Currie and at the lake. He started to say "water" and would point at the lake and "boat". He truly enjoyed all of the water/boat time, except for when we tried to get him the water! He was very scared at first...one weekend we spent some time on a beach and Carter enjoyed playing in the sand/water. The last weekend in July, when Grandma Lucy, Grandpa Don and Aunt Crista and Uncle Josh and Uncle Craig came up to celebrate Carter's 2nd birthday, we hung out at Sandy Beach on Lake Shetek, and Carter conquered his fear of swimming! He went to each of us and really had a splash of a time. I was so proud of him! We also spent some time tubing with Grandpa A., Crista, Josh and Craig...Carter stayed at the cabin and with Grandma Lucy.

- In August we spent some time at Grandma and Grandpa Aschenbrenner's on the farm near Laurens and Carter had a blast....from riding around on the golf cart, three-wheeler...and Grandpa and I rummaged through some old stuff stored in a building and found me and Aunt Crista's old Barbie cars and some of Grandpa's stuff from when he was a kid. In the midst of all of that we found a kite and Grandpa, Carter and I flew that for awhile. Carter was a little less into the kite flying than me and Grandpa :-) Oh, and Carter and I helped pick grandpa's cucumbers....3, 5-gallon buckets full! It was cucumber madness!

All-in-all, it was a great summer, but went all too fast. However, I really love Fall, and, and am looking forward to some more nice weeks ahead.