End of Summer

Hey guys!!  Wow, I have REALLY sucked at writing these entries on a regular basis!  Everything has been good, so don't worry at all.  I've just been busy, so I haven't been good at finding time to post anything!!  But, I think it's safe to say that we are at the end of Summer now!!  Which means that my favorite season (Fall!!!!!) is just about here!!  I'm very excited for all things Fall.  I thought I'd kinda just use this post as a Summer Wrap-up post, and post some random pictures, etc from this Summer.

Awhile ago I took some pictures of one of our neighbor's gardens while I was taking Guinness for a walk!  Their flowers were SO beautiful!

And Kevin and I planted some flowers by our walkway, and I'm happy to say that they're still doing really great at the end of summer!  

Here they were when they were first planted, and now they're enormous! 

We also got a hanging planter for by our garage! 

We got a LOT of rain this summer!  Our poor side yard and backyard got pretty washed out and just stayed muddy almost all summer.  We played frisbee with Guinness whenever we could, but most of the time it was too muddy. 

This was Guinness's sad face on a VERY rainy day.  He just kept looking out the front window, and he was not thrilled that we couldn't go for a walk or play frisbee. 

About a month ago, we had a fairly free day so we decided to drive to the Hershey, PA area and visit Troegs Brewery.  They make some amazing beers, and I'd heard great things about their brewery but I'd never been!  It's only about an hour away, and it was a nice day for a drive up there.  We signed up for their brewery tour, and it was SUCH a great tour!!  It's a really cool facility. After the tour was over, we hung out in their restaurant/bar for a bit and ate some of their food and sampled some beers, and then we headed home!  It was a great time.

Our tour guide. 

A few weekends ago the weather was pretty nice in the morning (rain was coming later, but it was our first cool-ish morning in a loooong time), so we drove 5 minutes to Valley Forge with Guinness to hike around with him!  Guinness did AMAZINGLY well on the hike, and all 3 of us had so much fun.  After that, we decided to test our luck and take Guinness to his first brewery (Locust Lane - it's very close to our house) to sit outside while we had some beers!  We gave him a tennis ball to distract him from all the people (otherwise he wants to jump up on them to say hi... We have not been able to break him of this horrible habit!), and it worked like a charm!!  He had so much fun just hanging out and chewing on his tennis ball, and it was so great to sit there and relax!  The 3 of us had such a fun day together!  

Valley Forge!  I can't wait to see its Fall colors again soon! 

Water break!! 

Hanging out at the Locust Lane brewery! 

Last weekend Kevin's family all met up at a bar in Philly that used to be owned by Kevin's grandpa (and also his great grandpa), to celebrate McGee's cousin Brendan coming home for a visit!  He's currently living in Italy with the Air Force, but his next assignment will probably be somewhere not very fun, so he should be finding out that next assignment any day now.  He's on the left in this picture, with the weird light beam going right through him.  Haha :)  The bartender took this picture, and that weird light beam is unfortunate!  In this picture is Brendan, Mook, Mo, Me, Mook's boyfriend Ethan, and Kevin! We had such a fun time, and it's a cool little bar.  Brendan leaves to head back to Italy this next weekend, so on Saturday we're all meeting up to go to a Union soccer game. I'll take more pictures at the game! 

Congrats to everyone on getting thru the Summer!  It's almost Fall!! :)  I'm SO excited!!!  And don't you worry:  I will have a Fall Bucket List again!!  Love you guys!!