Summertime Fun

Damien is starting 8th grade tomorrow! I realized I needed to give an update on our summer. It went so quickly. We had a brutal winter which led into a super hot summer. It's finally starting to cool down thankfully. 

I enrolled Damien into the IMPACT Academy this summer. It's for boys and girls entering into the 7th and 8th grades and it's a free program hosted by the GF police department. It was Monday through Thursday for most of June and July. It was AWESOME for Damien. He fought me on going, but he did have a good time and made lots of friends. They went on bike rides, went to the pools (both indoor and outdoor), volunteered (things like packing meal bags for needy kids, served lunches, and a car wash), gardened, went to lots of parks, played various sports, businesses around town, and interacted with a therapy dog. Lunches and snacks were included. They finished up the program by going to the Character Challenge Course Adventure Park in Minnesota. Seriously awesome program! 

They were given bus passes for transportation around town

Waiting for the bus

Riding bikes around town

Petting the therapy dog

Skate park

Tour of the National Guard armory

More time with the therapy dog

Typical Damien lol

Fire department tour

Playing corn hole

At the pool

Car wash where they raised $862 and donated the proceeds a Random Acts of Kindness event

All the IMPACT Academy kids had their school supplies donated to them this year. So awesome!

Rydell dealership tour

More pool time

Police department

Turtle River park

Play It Complex

Graduation day!

Here are some more pictures from over the summer. Not pictured, but I also made it out to Dickinson for a week in July and had an amazing time. We even found a new favorite board game--Scattergories! 

I went on a two week low carb diet over the summer. It went well, but it's soooo hard to maintain!

Damien and I watched the fireworks together this year--from our apartment!

I checked in on a coworker's Maine Coon, Korra, while they were out of town for a week. Super awesome cat!

It's been cooling off at night lately so I've been able to wake up to beautiful sunrises!

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