Summer Week 3!

With summer lacrosse at its end and Gray off to Lutheridge for the week, we headed into our 3rd week of summer vacation.  Which is weird because school seems a world away from now.  Joshua had football camp each morning and spent many of the afternoons with his friend Josh, who always calls him JCrab, which just really cracks me up.  Matt worked 5 night shifts in a row to optimize overtime pay, so we didn't see him very much either.  We did some playing in the sand, some washing baby toys for Levi, and Joshua and Julia had some singing nights.

While the boys were all busy, we girls had some hang out time.  Our highlights were a trip to the Museum of Life and Science and a trip to Asheville.

We needed to drive to Asheville to pick up Gray from camp, so my aunt Cheryl graciously offered her almost finished new bedroom that she's having built to rent out on airbnb.  It's coming soon if you need a place to stay in Asheville--nice big room and bathroom with a porch and in a great location!  Our brief visit turned into a birthday party family gathering for my cousin Costner, so I got to see my sister and her kids, my mom, my uncle, my grandmother, and of course the birthday boy.  Until his recent surgery at Duke, I had not seem Costner in years and it was so good to be with him and get ot know his personality a bit.  He was pretty subdued at first, but then Grandmama sat by him and before we knew it, he was laughing like crazy.  A skype call with his sister in London made the laughs keep on coming.  Great family visit.  

Then Cheryl, Julia, Allie, and I drove around Asheville, getting the tour from Cheryl.  We stopped and played at a splash pad downtown, which Julia loved so much and Allie loved as long as I held her.  Fun trip!  Julia did not want to go home and had a bit of moping once we got back here the next day.  

Gray had a great week at camp.  He was full of stories for a good part of the trip home, then conked out for awhile.  Think it was great for him to get away and basically play all week.  He was a little miffed at having to be told what to do and do chores again at home.  :)

We finished the weekend with finally all 6 getting back to church, then taking our broken dishwasher to the dump (it's actually not been as bad as I thought not having one the last 3 weeks--we just have everyone wash their own dishes...but we get a new one Wednesday), and hitting up the very crowded pool.  Now for week #4, which doesn't include much beyond a 4th family gathering and FINALLY getting to welcome home the Mussers from China this weekend!!