see ya next year, summer

today was our last day of summer. such a depressing occasion calls for fried food...

and cousin therapy...

rockin' out...

masquerading..

planking...

owling...

and red mango-ing...

goodbye summer...

you will be missed.

just like jack will miss not having to wear a shirt...

disco vacation, eleven

now that summer is almost over, i guess it's about time i fill in a few of the gaps from my blog-lacking summer. we vacationed in frisco, colorado this year. on the way there as i was writing a memo in my so-fancy-i-can't really-use-it phone about what we wanted to do, i unintentionally titled it "disco vacation" instead of "frisco vacation". naturally, i left it because what kind of vacation could be better than a disco vacation?!

and our disco vacation was far out. as in far out of the plains and into the mountains. this is our third vacation in frisco, but the first time we have had our dear luci may with us...

each year, we like to have a good combination of old and new activities. this time, the old activities included:

the homemade boat regatta...

jack cheering on his first place vessel...

my nautical creation named "it's better with butter" was not at all better. it came in dead last.

but it is better at the butterhorn bakery and cafe...

oh, how we love that place as you can see. though daddy can make a mean breakfast too...

we love walking around main street...

playing at the playground...

and playing at the pool...

we also love just chillaxin' in our condo, enjoying each other and the beautiful view...

new activities included renting bikes with a new lake as our destination...

hey, guess what, lake water in the mountains is

kinda (understatement) cold (understatement)...

stranded...

rescued...

and another new activity was spending a day in vail...

the kids, missing our dogs like crazy, had to stop to pet every dog. especially the goldens...

vail had it's charm, but we missed our little frisco. and especially it's prices!

though it was quite awhile ago, our disco vacation lives on in our minds because it was so jive...

and now the kids' summer vacation is gone like disco...

what a drag.

brace yourselves.

i don't think i'm going to see this smile too often anymore...

since tate just got braces. he is perfecting the art of ventriloquism and smiling with his mouth closed. just like he used to...

he looks super cute with them, just like he looked super cute without them. but he is hoping the next two years fly by.

sadly, buddy, the years go by way too fast.

the men in her life

lulu loves her boys...

the feelings are obviously mutual.