On Friday, Brady, my sister Hanna and her friend Chris, and I drove a couple of hours down to Kings Dominion in Virginia for a fun day of roller coasters and water slides! We left in hopes that we’d get there before park opening and be in the front of the line for the “Volcano” which is probably the best roller coaster in the park. Of course, we headed straight there only to find it was closed. It was already insanely humid at hot. Just walking through the front part of the park already had me sweating all over. Brady and I bought a souvenir cup for $13 that would give us free refills for the entire day. It was a no-brainer because I think water bottles cost $4 apiece. I feel like we always drank through it within a minute or two of refilling because we were so hot.
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I don’t think that title is enough to exclaim how excited I am and how proud I am of my husband for passing his boards and graduating after a long and hard 6 years of study!!! It’s been a long time coming and I’m a very happy wife after this weekend celebrating my husband.
Brady took his board exam on the 19th of July and found out his results on last Tuesday after a long week of waiting and he found out that he PASSED! He was able to go into graduation weekend knowing all he had to do was lock down a job. Almost half of his class of 38 took the exam since the next one isn’t offered until October.
It’s been a long week here in Michigan and especially this weekend so this is going to be a 2 part episode featuring lots of ice cream and a couple workouts from Monday-Friday.
Summer is coming to a close… boohoo. I don’t mind autumn too much because it has some of the best seasonal foods as well as pretty trees and such BUT it means that the weather is getting colder and soon we’ll have “naked” trees everywhere. I dislike naked trees and I hate being cold.
To get me through the horrible winter months, I wrote this “5 Things I Did This Summer” list so I could look back on the good times and feel a little warmer inside.
1. College Graduation
I suppose this was technically in the spring, but it started off my summer well. It may have taken 5 years to get a 4-year degree, but I finally made it!
2. Moved from Michigan to Maryland
Braden just entered his 3rd and final year of PT school and he’s starting his clinical internships this fall. We were lucky that he was able to get placements for all 4 internships in Maryland near our families. However, this means we had to move states and pack up our first little nest together. Luckily we had some kind family members living nearby to help us out or else we’d probably still be trying to move.
3. Anniversary Vacation
We wanted to do something special to celebrate our first anniversary so we spent 2 nights and 3 days at the Atlantis Inn in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. This is my favorite beach spot “near” us so we had a lot of fun riding our bikes through Cape Henlopen State Park, eating ice cream, playing mini-golf at Shell We Golf, and just relaxing on the beach.
4. Iron Girl Columbia Triathlon
I spent the majority of my summer preparing for this event and it is probably the biggest highlight of my summer because I got to see all my hard work pay off. You can read about this one here.
5. Packed and sent my sister off to college
What a little grown-up she’s become. It’s especially hard to see her go because I’ve just moved back home after being away for 5 years. Well now she’s the one heading off to another state to become a smarter human being. Bye Nani :'(
I know I’m going to blink and it will be summer again soon, but for right now, it’s just really hard to say goodbye!