{"id":307,"date":"2013-08-15T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themrscaseyann.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/15\/my-oh-my-its-mid-august-already"},"modified":"2024-08-14T17:07:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T17:07:51","slug":"my-oh-my-its-mid-august-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n<p><a style=\"clear:left;display:inline !important;margin-bottom:1em;margin-right:1em;text-align:center;\" href=\"https:\/\/themrscaseyann.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/23675-sharkpit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themrscaseyann.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/23675-sharkpit.jpg?w=300\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a style=\"clear:left;float:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-right:1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/themrscaseyann.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/fb63a-sharkpit5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themrscaseyann.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/fb63a-sharkpit5.jpg?w=300\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"clear:left;float:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-right:1em;text-align:center;\" href=\"https:\/\/themrscaseyann.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/03200-sharkpit2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themrscaseyann.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/03200-sharkpit2.jpg?w=300\" width=\"640\" height=\"404\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><a style=\"clear:left;float:left;margin-bottom:1em;margin-right:1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/themrscaseyann.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bc923-sharkpit4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themrscaseyann.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bc923-sharkpit4.jpg?w=300\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">july flewww by<\/span>\u00a0in such a scurry and flurry!! can you believe we&#8217;re here in the smack dab middle of august? summer and fall are definitely my favorites as far as seasons go. our fall\u00a0<i>is<\/i>\u00a0a bit of an &#8216;indian summer&#8217; with long, warm, quiet days. especially once our santa cruz population settles back down to a good sixty thousand! i think we must have a million people here in our summers, meaning beach traffic to the point of exasperation\u2014don&#8217;t try to go\u00a0<i>anyyywhere<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>i do love that everyone wants to be together, so we&#8217;ve had many\u00a0<span style=\"font-size:large;\">long evenings<\/span>\u00a0with games at friend&#8217;s homes, staying up late together hanging out, late afternoon swims and the like. so summer into fall is simply the best in my book, bring it on august + september!<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><\/div>\n<p>in late july, we went up north for <span style=\"font-size:large;\">youth camp<\/span> (do i have a photo to show for it?? maybe one! yikes!) which was so full and heart-bursting wonderful and hilarious and ridiculously tiring all at once. but that&#8217;s kind of the m.o. for youth camps\u2014a chaotic mix of all things crazy and amazing. our kids were so excited and eager to hear something from god, which always makes me smack myself in wonderment, because i was nowhere near that sort of realization at their age. i wanted it but wasn&#8217;t ready.. so they&#8217;re ready and hungry and they were satisfied and that&#8217;s an incredible thing to watch and walk them through. so yay them!<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear:both;text-align:center;\"><\/div>\n<p>we just celebrated <span style=\"font-size:large;\">james 28th birthday<\/span> on the 11th, and again..i hardly photo-documented it, what&#8217;s up with this!? pictures aside, we had taco bar, played games, told stories..all things james loves \ud83d\ude42 we&#8217;re also putting some money aside for those beats headphones for him\u2014anybody tried &#8217;em? little silk pillows on your ears those things! pretty fun.<\/p>\n<p>the rest of this month will be full of <span style=\"font-size:large;\">wedding<\/span> prep for friend&#8217;s barn wedding (yippee! i&#8217;m wearing my <span style=\"text-decoration:line-through;\">first<\/span>\u00a0second pair of cowboy boots in the wedding, yes..me!! realized i had a pair of white studded ones when i was six). excited for our friends, and for the friends getting married in the weeks following that \ud83d\ude42 oh marriage!<\/p>\n<p>we&#8217;ll also be readying ourselves to whisk away on <span style=\"font-size:large;\">vacation<\/span> the next day! vacaaaation!!!! while we planned on europe, the time off didn&#8217;t quite work how we figured (i had about a half minute of grieving buttery croissants and the musee d&#8217;orsay) but then instead we chose to satisfy our vacation hunger with hawaii. no womp womp needed people, we&#8217;re elated!!! bring on the beach, the pool, the floating in the water, the books (oh the books!), the sleep, the fresh fruit breakfasts, the snorkeling, the strolling and the like! oh how i love thee tropical paradise.<\/p>\n<p>happy august my friends!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; july flewww by\u00a0in such a scurry and flurry!! can you believe we&#8217;re here in the smack dab middle of august? 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