August is like the Sunday of Summer

Summer flew by way too fast, it was our first summer owning the shop and we did not know what to expect. I will say that Tess is a trooper, she spent a lot of summer nights at the shop helping me put out inventory (there was usually some sort of summer treat in it for her like ice cream or a milkshake at the end of the night). I will say being busy made the summer go by too fast, hopefully next summer we can plan a little better and take a couple more weekends off.

We started the Summer off like we always do with a special birthday. Our little one turned 7, she is getting way too big! Tess wanted to have her party at inspire rock, an indoor rock climbing place. She had a blast, it took a little while for the other kids to warm up to the idea of climbing up a wall but once they realized they were attached they took off. 

This party was nice, the place wasn’t crowded, the kids pretty much had the whole upstairs to themselves and it was air conditioned. She had a blast and so did everyone else. This year her theme was unicorns, she is into everything unicorn. She, like all other little girls love the idea of unicorns. So she got a unicorn cake and the owner the Inspire Rock drew her a unicorn. After her party the whole family went to dinner.

Since we moved we thought we would check out the Fairfield 4^th of July activities and we thought that we would bike over to the middle school. Well it was hot, and we were hot by the time we got there. So we did a couple of things hung out inside the school to cool off and then we headed home to run some errands.

This year we did not have the chance to go to as many Astros’ games as we usually do but when we did get the opportunity we made the most of it. One game we didn’t get there in time to get the bobble head of Tess was a little disappointed but one of the season ticket holders that sits next to us gave Tess his. She was so excited. She collects them. Clayton is about to have to build her a special shelf just for her bobble heads.

During the summer Clayton almost always plays in the Texas firefighter games. This year the games were in round rock. I took a couple of days off work and we headed out to town. Clayton’s team did really well and ended up placing in 1^st. Each year its hard to tell which bracket you should be placed and them normally combined division 1 and 2. Well this year they had enough teams to keep them separate. HFD was placed in Division 2 when they probably should have been in Division 1. At the end of the day everyone had fun. Clayton and I were able to have dinner with my Brother and Kate while we were in town also. Tess stayed with my parents all week.

The pups also stayed at camp, we found a cool boarding place. The dogs play most of the time and only come in for naps, to eat and at night. We get daily updates also. They looked pretty happy while we were away.

We took the afternoon off from the shop and went to a birthday party. One of our friends and old neighbors, their son was turning one. He has a Stars War theme and Darth Vader and Rey were also at the Party. Tess knew who Darth was but she enjoyed doing all the activities anyways. It was a pretty cool party!

We decided to play soccer with Fairfield this year and ended up on the same team as on of Tess’s good friends. Fairfield starts their season before school starts and has a parade for the kids at the beginning of the season. The first couple of weeks/months we hot but the season ended before the holidays so that was good.

The weekend before school started we took Tess out to Candytopia, and walked around the exhibit. It was interesting to see all the things made out of candy but the exhibit was short and Tess wasn’t really interested in the Marshmallow pit so there wasn’t a lot of interactive things to do. We had fun anyways and it was a good way to end the summer

Tess was excited to started second grade, I am not ready for this child to be growing so fast. She seems to be getting taller by the minute. I need time to slow down drastically. Next up Second Grade!