Where has the summer gone?

I can't believe we are already to the middle of July and only about a month away from heading back to school. Where has the summer gone? It seems as though we just got out of school. I have been able to do a lot of things which I'll fill you in on and accomplished many of the projects I set out to do this summer so I feel pretty good about that. We have one more trip to make to Canada to celebrate my dad's 80th birthday and then I'll be home for the rest of the year. Actually, I'm scheduled for knee replacement surgery on August 14th so I may be late starting school anyway. Not looking forward to that one!

First of all, our teacher re-treat was awesome this year. We had a great time in Ennis, Montana. We took the four-wheelers and had so much fun on them. It was a little scary hauling them, loading and unloading them by ourselves just us girls but everything was great.

It was Jennifer's birthday while we were there so we went to the Follies in Virginia City which was awesome. We had our pictures taken at an old time photo shop. It was fun and I'll post the picture here so you can see just how much fun we had.

It was a much shorter drive than McCall ever is so that made it really nice not spending all day in the car. The country was beautiful and even though we got rained on a bit while four-wheeling, we still had a great ride. We almost missed the lake! Drove right past it, thank goodness someone was paying attention and turned around in time to see it before we went right on by, We would have ended up in Virginia City if we had kept going. The rain didn't help!

Any way, it was a great chance to relax and enjoy great friendships. These girls really are my family and I love spending time with all of them.