Summer 2014

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From: Emily Price <emilyshrumprice@gmail.com>
Date: September 7, 2014 at 11:05:48 PM CDT
To: Joe2 Blog <emilyshrumprice.joe2@blogger.com>, emilyshrumprice.ems2@gmail.com
Subject: Summer 2014

My darlings,

The summer is coming to close. it was a marvelous time but I can't believe it is over. Even with the extra two week extension - thanks to school start being delayed at Good Shepherd - I'm not sure that I'm ready. However, tonight during bath time we talked through some of the amazing things we did, people we saw and summer bucket list items. I think we did pretty well.

From a very basic perspective: we are still living in the garage apartment. The roof came off the house the first week of July which made the front yard (well, and for the most part, the backyard too) unsuitable for us to run around in with all the nails and broken wood and glass strewn about in the yard. That was a bummer. But it didn't slow us down too much – we just loaded up in the car and made our way around town! There were times when I had to meet with a worker here and there, but we finally hit a groove with that to where it wasn't too tough on everyone (thanks to the 2-way talk video monitor).

We had play dates with:
The Macovics
The Mizes
The Paulsons
The Strausses
The Murrays
The Korinths
The Criexell
The Wellers
Madeline and Dylan
The Abbotts-- and baby Claire
The Triplets
The Wukashs
The Koesters
The Randolphs
Waylon Kinsel
Ford Shapiro
Clark Pollard
Gus Civins
Emmett Townsend
Caine Hunter
The Curtains
JoJo Andreani
The Sorrels
The Bourlans
The Barksdales
Shelby Auler
Caroline Patrick and Will

We visited family in Dallas (Uncle Ted and Aunt Rubria, Nina and Grandpa Bill and all of his kids), Colleyville (Aunt Mary and Uncle Scott), Hubbard (Boppa) and Tyler (Great Grandmama Shrum).

We took a family vacation for the first time in years and went to the beach in Port Aransas for a whole 8 days! After years of not taking a vacation, this was huge! We were able to meet up with the Andreanis in the middle of the week and the Paulsons at the end of the week.

Went swimming at: the Bartletts, the Paulson's apartment complex pool, the new Westenfield pool, Westwood country club, ACC, and the Prices house

We started a weekly in playgroup with Jackson's upcoming kindergarten class at records for next year. We managed to gather 12 families with kids. Brykerwoods a year from now. Our little pre-K Brykerwoods playgroup generally had three or four families at the Bailey Park splash pad and included the pizza dinner for the kids and a little wine for the moms.

"Summer bucket list" things we did included:
Threw rocks into Town Lake and played in the water just below Barton Springs
Played at: Brykerwoods, Reed, Triangle, Rollingwood, Ramsey,  Clarksville, Central Market, Zilker, Red Bud Isle, Parr (Grapevine) and Mayfield Parks
The Thinkery
Visited The Capital
Watched fireworks
Made bath fizzy's
Playing with Playdoh
Lots of Artwork time
Jackson did (and loved) some number and letter workbooks Aunt Jackie gave him
Had snowcones
Made Popsicles
Played with a giant block of ice
Ran in the sprinklers
Participated in the neighborhood Fourth of July parade
Ate Watermelon
Had ice cream sundaes
Had a water balloon fight or two
Played in the sprinklers some more  
Went to the Hoppin House
Pet a goat and saw a Zebra
Played T-ball in the front yard
Did the ALS ice bucket challenge
Played basketball at WAYA
Wandered around UT campus a few times – visited the turtle pond, ran through main mall and east mall -once with Dad, once with the Paulsons and once with the Curtains
Went to the Texas Museum of Natural Science
Road a ferry to Port Aransas Pass
Went to Inner Space Cavern
Car shopped
Went to the Tridelt house for skit night
Round Rock express game
TCBY waffle cone Wednesday
Teo $2 Tuesday
Alamo draft house movie
Lots of Tuesday night dinners with Uncle Matt
Trailer Park dinner
Amy's ice cream
San Marcus car museum
IKEA trips
GS journaling workshop and 'camp' for kids
S'mores
Jackson at VBS AT TUMC
Nina came to visit
Dino bone pit dig
The Perot Museum in Dallas
Visited Mom's high school
Rode our bikes to Brykerwoods Elementary playground
Bubbles. lots of bubbles
Went fishing
Went to a Musical
Had lots of Pappy sightings
Watched fireworks with glowsticks
Learned to deal with the hear - kinda
Lots of P. Terry's lemonade and chocolate oatmeal cookies were consumed.


It was a great summer and I loved spending it with you two and soaking it all up. As sad as so am to see it go- I know we'll have just as much fun in our next adventure as we own the Fall!