The Brantons: Summer Recap

This summer flew by. In addition to having no working computer, I also had little time. We stayed busy, busy, busy. It would take hours to recap everything but here are the Cliff's Notes.

We started our summer with our favorite race, the Warrior Dash. Once again, it was an absolute blast running through the mud, sliding, climbing, and jumping over fire to get through the 5K.

We spent a lot of time at Chicago Fire games. To date we have only missed one home game this season. The kids haven't been with us to every game because sometimes game night = date night.

We spent nearly every day of the week at the local pool. They have a huge sand area where Talan liked to hang out. Reese spent 80% of her pool time going up and down the slide.

A few weeks into Summer vacation the kids and I packed up and drove to Tennessee to spend some time at Nana & Papa's house. It was so relaxing to be out in the country.

Back at home we took in a couple of outdoor festivals.

At the end of July we were so excited to have visitors. Erica, Diane, and Josh flew into town for the Chicago Rock -n- Roll half marathon. While they were here we had to share our love of soccer games with them.

The next day was the race. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done.....but I DID IT! Kevin and I both finished the race and I was able to do it much faster than I had anticipated. A bucket list item check off. Thank goodness I don't ever have to do it again!

Two days after the race, Kevin and I took off on a trip to Vegas to celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary. The kids stayed with my parents in Tennessee and then drove with them to Florida while we were gone. We had a great week relaxing by the pool and playing video poker.

We had long enough to come home to do laundry and repack before it was off to Florida to reunite with the kids. As always, we had a great time in Florida visiting with friends and family and soaking up the Florida sunshine.

None of us were happy to come back home but Kevin had to get back to work after 2 weeks off so we didn't have a choice. Once home we packed as much family fun as we could into the two weeks before school started again.