Back Home!

We had a blast in Oakland, and I had a great plan for driving home with the kids on Sunday. We attended my good friend Kari's Bridal Shower at her old swim club, and it was the perfect place to completely drain my kids energy! I left the pool at 4:10, and the kids slept until after 6. Whoo hoo! We got home with minimal stops, and even had a late dinner with Daddy- who had smoked some salmon in honor of our homecoming.

Since we've been back, we've been busy- the kids had their dental check ups, back to school shopping, and are scheduled for all sorts of play dates OUTSIDE! That's right, the smoke seems to have found somewhere else to hang out, and we've been enjoying beautiful sunny days. We have less than two weeks of summer left, and I'm trying to cram as much fun into it as possible, since the wildfires took away pretty much all of it. We're thinking they are going to start to move towards actually putting the fires out, people in the community are really starting to stand up and say, "Enough with the burning!" An 18 year old died two weeks ago on his first day working on our fire, and last night we heard a military helicopter crash at the fire camp- 15 people were on board and our little community doesn't have enough ambulances to deal with that many casualties at once. So, hopefully all those injured in the crash will be ok, and we'll hear about 100% containment sooner than expected.