Summer Update!!!

Well, I started this blog in hopes of updating my weekly progress throughout this pregnancy but I have failed to update the last 3 weeks of my life. To say things have been chaotic around here would be an understatement! Since my last post from Houston, we have had quite a crazy summer! We received some very sad news while in Houston that a very dear friend of ours passed away due to a terminal illness she had been battling for a very short two years. While we were indeed very much looking forward to our vacation in Mexico we decided our hearts belonged back home in Lubbock to attend her memorial and pay our respects to her family. So the trip has been put off until next year! Plus, this mama will finally be able to enjoy a few margaritas on the beach so I have plenty to look forward to then!

We spent a wonderful week in Houston with my parents and took Tripp to Galveston where it was SO miserably hot we only lasted about an hour on the beach before heading to The Spot for lunch!! The next day we headed to to the Kemah Boardwalk for lunch where Tripp played on the splash pad and we got to feed the stingrays! He wasn't too sure about the latter, so maybe we will try again next year! Once again, it felt like 100 degrees so we had lunch and called it a day. I didn't get any pics in Kemah due to the unbearable heat, but I'm sure we will be going back soon! My parents may live on the complete opposite side of Texas from us, (boo!), but I love that they live so close to the Kemah boardwalk and Galveston, so we always have fun things to look forward to when we visit them :)

We got back to Lubbock just in time to get ready to have our dear friends the Glynns in town! Trey & Jason have been friends since high school and its always fun when we get together with them! He and his wife Courtney have two little girls and one of them is a month older than Tripp! We had so much fun grilling out, getting in LOTS of pooltime, and attending the 4th of July family picnic at the Lubbock Country Club. They live in Austin which in our opinion is entirely too far from us! We try to convince them to move out to the LBK but there's a slim chance of that happening, especially considering they are both die hard Longhorns ;) It's ok, we won't hold that against them. Well, except on Nov. 26th.....

The following Monday, Tripp started his ISR swim lessons! They are EVERYDAY (M-F) for 15 minutes. And they last 6 weeks. And they are about half an hour from our house. Yes, do the math.... #byebyesummerafternoons It's quite the commitment but we couldn't have asked for a better instructor for Tripp. He has already learned SO much in one week it's truly amazing and I cannot wait to see what his progress is like over the next 5 weeks! If you aren't familiar, this class is essentially a 'survival' skills class. Mostly recommended if you have a pool or live by a large body of water, but anyone can take it. It teaches them a technique called 'swim-float-swim' in efforts to prepare them should they ever fall in without an adult or supervisor around. Our summer days are crazy around here, his entire schedule has been completely thrown off, (not good for the control freak like myself), so we basically just have the mornings to get out and run our errands! He eats lunch at 11 now so he can go down for a nap around 11:30, (even though he doesn't ever fall ASLEEP until 12ish) and then I have to wake him up to leave our house by 2:30. One thing about this child is he sure loves his sleep! #canIgetanAMEN By the time we get home its 4 o'clock! I have a feeling the rest of this summer is going to FLY by and August will be here before we know it!!!!