More Summer Fun!

The weekend before and after my return to work were busy ones!  Dan's Aunt and Uncle from TX came to visit along with his cousin Pat and his family from CA.  We had a great time catching up with them over the long weekend. We hadn't seen Pat and Claudia since our wedding and we have both had two kids since then, so it was great to finally introduce them all.  The day after they arrived, we all met for lunch and then spent the afternoon at Cushing Park in Delafield. The next night we had an "adult" cousins night out.  My parents were in town and watched the girls while Dan's parents and Uncle Jim and Auntie Mar watched the other five kiddos.  We went out to dinner and then a bar and back to our house for a bonfire.  We all stayed up too late and drank too much, but it was a great last night out before heading back to work.  On Sunday we had a cookout at Dan's parent's house so we could spend as much time with everyone as possible while they were in town. 

Sisters

Besties

 

The Wille boys and their kiddies- in the Wille reunion t-shirts

All the Wille/Carpenter kids

My last night at home snuggling with my baby

 

 

The first week back to work actually flew by. I was extremely busy the day that I returned which made it much easier and actually it hasn't slowed down since...I have yet to look at the 700 emails that were in my inbox that day...they're still sitting in the folder I dragged them into. It was a little harder to come back to work this time. The fact that Rylie was home with me all summer didn't help things. It made me realize just how much I miss out on every day- the imagination that she has, watching her pretend, the conversations we have, all the songs she makes up or sings along with. But I'm thankful for all of the time that I did get to spend with her and it was so nice to be the one that she "wanted" most of the time. I think I created a special little bond with both of my girls this summer and loved our time together.

The weekend after I went back to work was fairly busy too. There were still things I wanted to squeeze in to the summer, so we had weekends packed full of activities. That weekend we went to Zoo a la Carte on Saturday and to a Brewer game on Sunday. It was Reagan's first game and she spent the majority of it asleep.he