The Life of Bon: The beauty of summer

Sunday, June 16, 2013

The beauty of summer


Summer has a purity and a beauty of its very own, don't you agree?  It is like no other season.  It stands bold and fierce, burning even, but offers the very best of everything. Long nights and lazy mornings.  Swimming pools and fourth of July weekends.  Camping trips and family vacations.  Ghost stories and campfires and flip flops and sunglasses and tan tan legs.

I have been off for summer and Greg has been in between jobs and getting ready to start his graduate program.  Therefore, we were both free as the wind for a week.  We went to the water park, we feasted on shaved ice, we slept out on the tramp, we roasted mallows over a camp fire, we went to the movies, (Man of Steel- I was unimpressed.  What's with all the punching?), we tried some golfing, we visited with family, and we told ghost stories to our little hearts' content.

In short we lived the pure, unadulterated summer life of a child.  And it was glorious.  I wish it were somehow possible to take a week every year in the summer to just be little kids again.  To do summer the way eight year olds do... in the most carefree and innocent way possible, with no responsibilities and no burdens, just one long hot summer day followed by another.

Greg will start up a new job this week, and then the first week of July he will start his master's program in marriage and family therapy and before you know it, it'll be August and I'll be back teaching them little rugrats.  We will get busy again and the days won't be slow or long or carefree.  They'll be busy and hectic and all other things that life can get, and these long, summer days will be just a distant memory.  Some dreary day in January, when I'm scraping ice off my windshield and feeling stressed and busy and oh so overwhelmed, I will wonder, "Why can't life just be simple and easy and fun again?"

And I'll remember this week.


Sleeping out on the tramp.  The flash... it was a bit bright.


Blogger's Roundtable #4.  One of the most stimulating and interesting hours of my life.  These girls are incredible and I loved talking so in depth about the power of writing and how to become better writers.  I left totally invigorated and motivated. (From left to right, Suzzie, Kimberly, Tayler, Aubrey)

It's when I look at pictures like this I wonder when I became the type of person that takes pictures of dogs.  But who can deny how cute he is?  All ready to head up for a weekend of fun with Greg's parents.

The second time in my life I have played golf.  I was awful.  Absolutely awful.



Summer evenings.  One of my favorite things in the world.





Carrying both sets of clubs.  What a stud.

And of course, a picture of Greg with his old man for Father's Day.  Gary's hair is pretty much always sticking up like that, and that is only one of the many reasons why we're so crazy about him.

18 comments:

  1. I love the sleeping out on the trampoline idea! How fun!

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  2. Such a fun idea, now I wish I had a trampoline! :(

    I can't play golf either, awful BUT I am a pro in putt-putt, Ha!

    :)

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  3. Summer days are the best in the whole year, I gotta accept. Lovely photographs :)

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  4. Hmmm....now you have me wanting to take a week off and just chill....or go back to school to be a teacher :)

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  5. Gorgeous sunset pics, wow!! Sleeping on a trampoline sounds like a lot of fun!

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  6. This looks so glorious! I have kids so I don't know if life can be this carefree again, but next week when we're at my parents my mom will take over my children and that will be about as good as it can get! :) It was so fun meeting you. I had to come home and write like four blog posts I thought of during our chat!

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  7. Looks like you had a great time!
    morrellfairytale.blogspot.com

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  8. oh my gosh that sounds absolutely amazing!! gosh im sooo jealous. id love to be carefree just for a week!!

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  9. I'm so jealous of your week/however many days it was! It seems divine!! :) One day maybe I'll take a week off to just do nothing and have a fun week like this!

    Amberly
    http://lifewithamberlyandjoe.com

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  10. Oh my gosh I miss sleeping out on my tramp!!! Childhood summers were my favorite!! Great post. Made me realize I need to do some fun stuff this summer!!
    xoxo
    Dani
    www.thatfitnesschic.blogspot.com

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  11. That sounds like a whole summers worth of fun all in one week! Lucky you! And your fur child is precious, can I have!?

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  12. Sleeping on the tramp sounds like so much fun! And look at how sweet that last photo is..Gary's hair = priceless!

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  13. aw great pics and this is the first week my husband is off work, but we already have plans and dr. appointments planned so no care-free for us...maybe next week :)

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  14. Ohmygosh I loved sleeping on the trampoline. Did you guys really stay out all night? Like really???

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  15. Sleeping on a tramp.....................not for me.........to bloody cold here at this time of year.......oh yeah and we don't have one anymore, would like to but don't

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  16. sounds like a beautiful week!!

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  17. Ok so your awesome points just went up by about 100 for sleeping on the tramp. I want to do that again!

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  18. I've never played golf, just mini-golf. I think I'm okay with that.

    Also, "Man of Steel" - if I hadn't been with friends, I might have contemplated leaving the theatre (which I never do) - it was so boring to me and I love superhero movies! Give me Tony Stark over Clark Kent any day!

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