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Labor Day camping

 August felt so long, like we’d never make it to Labor Day and get to go camping. But we did and it was great. The weather was perfect, maybe a little more mosquitoes because of all the rain, but just an all around fun weekend.  We arrived and went straight to the beach. We climbed the dune and swam and climbed the dune again and got back in the water. The lake temperature was very comfortable with fun waves. It was hard to leave to go set up camp.  Our site had great spots for the hammocks. Evelyn and Jameson even used one hammock as a makeshift badminton net. At night they put glow sticks on the hammock and birdie. We returned to the beach for the sunset which unfortunately was mostly obscured by the clouds. Sunday morning after breakfast we went on our big hike. This year Jameson wanted to do the really long hike that takes you along the lake and then up Mount Randall.  After lunch it was back to the beach and more dune climbing. The water was much colder. I could...
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Day camp

 Evelyn and Jameson were invited to do a parks and rec camp with friends from school. We were surprised and pleased when Jameson agreed since camp isn’t really his thing. He was a little disappointed once he learned it meant he missed a few World Cup games but he got over it. They got to go biking, kayaking, swimming, rock climbing and experience a high rope course.
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Cousin time

The last week of July, Meredith and Hans came to visit. Oma, Grandpa and Mimi were here too. While it will make for a long post, here’s everything we did together.  Played slot cars. Went fishing. Played board games. Were generally silly. Enjoyed yummy treats.  We visited the downtown library to check out their Dino exhibit for summer reading.  After the library we went to Promenade Park to splash around in the water feature.  We also went to the zoo which was a lot of fun since we hadn’t been in forever. 
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TinCaps

 The Sunday before school started we went to a TinCaps games. It was quite warm but eventually our seats were in the shade.  The TinCaps did not play very well.  But we still enjoyed ourselves. There seemed to be a lot of foul balls near our area too. Of course there’s always foul balls and you should always be paying attention, but this game felt different.  So guess who came home with a foul ball? As it came back off the roof towards us, I put my hand out to shield Jameson and next thing we know it’s in his seat. He said the ball hit him in the chest and then bounced into his seat. Obviously he felt it but he wasn’t hurt. A first for all of us. 
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Back to school

 I have a lot of catching up to do. And I will try my best. But for now we will start with back to school which was last week.  5th and 7th grade are off to great starts. 
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Cleveland

 I got home yesterday from Cleveland where GOTR hosted Summit, their every two years conference. I left Saturday so it was a long trip (in my opinion). We did some fun stuff, learned some good stuff and meet a few new people. Saturday our council director, Sarah, had training so Megan, our board president, and I explored downtown. We found an outdoor festival, the public library, and this beautiful hotel. Sunday we had to waste more time in the morning so we walked to the West Side Market inside another really fun building.  Finally Sunday afternoon, Sarah’s training was finished and Summit began. We had some networking sessions, dinner and the kick off party at the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame.  This was my favorite part. Monday was day one for all general and break out sessions. I didn’t sleep great and woke up early to do a short run with a local running group, so it felt like a long day. For dinner we met a former board member who just moved to Cleveland, watched some soc...
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