The Party's Over

Next week school starts. Soon summer 2013 will be a memory. These are the pictures from our last week of summer break.

 

Now there will be less playground playing.

 

Not as much 

playing in the park.



 

We won't be dropping stick and leaves into the stream as often

 

and watching them float 

 

all the way down the stream

until they disappear.



 

The joy of walking in the hot sun is almost over for now,

 

and we've made our last visit to the waterpark this year.

 

We've ended our summer reading program with a visit to Build-a-Bear,

 

then rode the train in the mall

with our Build-a-Bear creations.



 

We couldn't say good-bye to summer without having these fabulous professional pictures taken.

 

Soon it will be too cold to gulp an Icee-thank goodness!

 

Soon the rock collection Hailey keeps in my car will stop growing.

 

Soon we won't have lots of time anymore to explore the rims

 

or to stand around looking cute.

 

We won't have endless hours to watch the airplanes take off

 or to try to touch the clouds

 

or reach the sun.

 

No more dancing on top of the world for hours.

 

No more time for trying to spook Grandma by climbing the tallest point.

 

Soon the summer blossoms will give way to snow

 

Soon our best summer hiking shoes will be put away.

 

It won't be long before the bones Grandma found last week while cleaning the Rims with Rotary Club will be 

 

carried off by the local wildlife.

We will have a little shorter discussions now- no long stretches to decide if these are dinosaur (Hailey and Makayla), dolphin (Hailey), human (Makayla), or zombie (Hailey) bones, or just plain old deer (boring Grandma). To our immense astonishment, Amy didn't want to take them home. I know. I was surprised too. Maybe Amy is cranky because summer is nearly over.



Good-bye summer! Come back next year!!