Sparks Family: August happenings...

I apologize for the late post recapping August - this blog website hasn't allowed me to post until now.

WOW – when I was going through pictures to decide what to blog about from August, I was overwhelmed at how busy we were! Here it goes…

The first weekend in August we were lucky enough to have the Bessonette’s stay with us! Audrey and her husband, Aaron, are college friends of ours and they have two little kiddos close in age to ours. Our weekend included a morning run and a stop at Starbucks (for the girls), golf (for the guys), trampoline park (for the kids), pool time (for all of us) and a fun dinner at our house to wrap things up!

The second weekend we found ourselves in Portland to celebrate a family friend’s wedding. We started out at the zoo and the kids had a blast! The wedding was beautiful and the kids enjoyed all of the fun kid activities provided and of course, the dessert table (I think I enjoyed that one as well)!

I was able to get some girl time in the third weekend with a trip to Chelan with my high school friends. We get together annually for a fun trip and last year we were supposed to meet up in Palm Springs and my flight got cancelled and I didn’t end up going – it was very sad. But this year Chelan was our destination and we made the most of it! When we arrived Friday, of course we had to eat lunch at the Lakeview Drive-In (best burgers and fries around)! For the rest of the weekend we laid out and ate pizza around the pool, relaxed on an enormous floatie at the lake, wine tasted and even got a quick run in! These girls are so much fun – the weekend was full of so many laughs and just catching up!

As we neared the end of August we got ready for Addi’s first day of kindergarten. She was very excited, which made Aaron and I very excited! No tears from us – we just enjoyed watching Addi start a new journey in her life! She loves her new teacher and has really caught on to the whole “bus-riding” thing. That girl is so independent!

Mid-week we took the kids to the fair – they had a great time riding the rides, petting the animals, eating mounds of curly fries and watching the Rodeo. I’ve always loved going to the fair growing up and I love watching the kids enjoy it too.

The very last weekend in August we headed to the Alta Lake Golf Course for an annual trip we make with Aaron’s family. The weekend was full of golf (for the kids too), pool time, waterslides in Chelan, Husky game, board games and so much more! We also had a surprise 40^th wedding anniversary celebration for Aaron’s parents – we had a cake made with their wedding picture on it and it and made a toast to the huge accomplishment!

So that wraps up our weekends, but here’s a few additional pictures that recaps our other adventures throughout the month…

DIY Bookshelf Project: I was bored with our bookshelf in our bedroom. After seeing a few examples on Pinterest, I removed the back of the bookshelf and covered it with a fun fabric. Then I moved it into the kitchen – now it’s more of a decoration piece rather than a bookshelf. I still have hopes that it could either be a beverage type station or possibly a homework station for the kids in the future, but for now I like it way more than a boring bookshelf!!