Summer Fun!

[LittlePuffyTail]

What have you been up to so far this summer? Do you have any fun plans for the rest of the summer? 

 

My summer has been pretty boring so far. Money is a bit tight right now so we are staying close to home. I’ve mostly been hanging out in Mom’s pool. I did go camping 2 weekends ago at our National Park. That was lots of fun. I went with my best friend (we’ve been friends since High School) and her neighbor (who was a bit of a dullard ). We had a beautiful weekend hiking and canoing. I LOVE canoing and anything to do with the water.  

Not sure why I look so freaky pale in this pic.

 

 

Ricky is on vacation next week. Hopefully we will get to take a day trip somewhere. Maybe to Prince Edward Island but we don’t have any plans yet. Lots of work to do around the house.   Looking forward to our annual zoo trip though. I love our zoo (I dislike a lot of zoos but the animals at ours have great habitats and are really well cared for). It’s a tradition for me and Ricky to go to the zoo every summer since we’ve been together. He always buys me a monkey plush toy (I have so many now I don’t know what to do with them) and then we get a Beavertail (if you’ve never had one it’s a yummy, fried pastry in the shape of a beaver tail. You can get diff flavours. My fave is Apple Cinnamon. mmmm). If you ever come to the East coast provinces make sure to get one!

[cainan]

Nice pics! I’ve been working on a kids’ play – only two rehearsals a week right now. I haven’t gone anywhere since I’m pretty much tethered to the bunnies and the … Let’s see… 140 or so gallons worth of various fishtanks I’ve just started up.

I wish that the apt had better ac… It’s way too hot to cook the great veggies I’m getting from my co-op!

[Elrohwen]

Beautiful pics! I love going to state and national parks.

Last night I got back from a wedding in Ohio – our second of the summer. I also took a long weekend trip to the Finger Lakes, in upstate NY, over July 4th weekend.

In a couple weeks we’re getting our house! We’re tight on money since we’re getting a house, so we aren’t doing any big vacations next year. We have one more wedding in the Finger Lakes in September, and I’m hoping to go to Maine for our anniversary that same month, just for a long weekend  We’ll have to figure out what to do about the bunnies once we move – we have a great pet sitter in our current town, so I’ll need to start looking for another one. Luckily we’ll have many friends nearby (unlike now) and they won’t mind stopping in to feed the bunnies for a weekend, which will be great.

I can’t wait to start moving into our house! That’s really our excitement for the summer.

[cainan]

Congrats on your move, Elrohwen! You’re not going to be coming nearer to Jersey, are you? If you are I can recommend someone.

[Kate Monster]

My summer has been incredibly dull! I moved, which was not dull but not fun. Being in a new city if fun, and sort of like being on vacation, but I have to study for my MA competency exams in August, and this is not going nearly as well as it should. I’d rather be out exploring, but I’m stuck inside all day reading (something I normally enjoy, but somehow it becomes less fun by far when it’s mandatory!)

[brittbritt]

We went to DisneyWorld right before my daughter’s school year ended. It was her and my husband’s first time. It was alot of fun but too much money was spent. My mom and dad bought an above ground 15 foot pool and my daughter has been spending lots of time over there and spending the night with them.

Tomorrow is my 10th wedding anniversary. Too bad he has to work too late to go out to eat or anything. He’ll be off on Friday and I’m sure we’ll take my daughter somewhere good to eat to celebrate.

[LoveChaCha]

Oh goodness, those beaver tails look so good  *drooling* LPT! EVIL! 

 

Yesterday, I did my first Ovarian Cancer walk in Seattle! My mom was taken by this cancer back in 2009. This was my first year doing the walk. It was a little emotional, I didn’t bawl or anything, but I had tears in my eyes when I first got there. The feeling of ‘Not being alone’ was very overwhelming. There was one reason we were all here.

The race raised over $500,000 for research.
It is so important to raise awareness. Ovarian Cancer has such normal woman symptoms – bloated, feeling full quickly, indigestion, lower back pain, etc  Most doctors just think it IS just normal woman problems  

Before my mom stopped working (due to her illness), she worked at a grocery store down in Lake Washington. I went to visit after the race and I thanked her boss for everything that he did for her. He told me that he still thinks of my mom a lot.

Some pictures:

 

Do YOU see what I see?

Thought so…

The boyfriend and I playing badminton (PPPST Monkeybun, I’m wearing the bracelet you made me! XD) yesterday at my dad’s girlfriend’s place

Slave, where were you?WHERE WERE YOU?!?

I’ll be looking for my tax papers today. I need to get started on my FAFSA. I’ll be attending a community college in January. It is an online course and with the clinicals twice a week at the school

[LittlePuffyTail]

That bunny lady is cool-looking. Kinda scary though.

Is that ChaCha taking a break from tennis?

[Elrohwen]

Posted By cainan on 07/25/2011 07:28 AM
Congrats on your move, Elrohwen! You’re not going to be coming nearer to Jersey, are you? If you are I can recommend someone.

Nope – I’ll be in the Hudson Valley. I hope I can find someone as good as the woman I had (and maybe cheaper too!)

[Monkeybun]

I’m glad you like the bracelet! I need to work more on my jewelry… been slacking again >.>

[LoveChaCha]

LPT.. I’m laughing like a mad lady hahaha!

The lady was SUPER NICE! As soon as I saw that, I thought it was fate. I lost my mom to ovarian cancer, and at the ovarian cancer walk, I see something bunny… it is definitely fate indeed!

Chacha’s Mister gave her the tennis ball lol lol lol! As soon as I got home that day, she was not amused at all. I think she wanted to paw the ball onto my face *>< face*

Monkey, hehe! It was the perfect day to wear it ;D

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