The Last Days Of Summer Vacation (With School Update)

The last few days of summer were a bit crazy and hectic, but we had a teeny bit of down time. One day, Bri wanted to blow bubbles like she did at her Jacob's Ladder camp. I tried using regular bubble soap, but it wasn't strong enough to blow the bubbles that Bri wanted to blow. I asked my friend Val how they did it at camp, and she said to use glycerin soap - that was the key! 

Briana had the best time - she did this for an hour. She blew bubbles just using her hands - it was crazy!

It takes a lot to break them...

Feminine stance...

Bubbles = big time smiles...

Papa's birthday is a week before Miss B's, so the weekend before her birthday party, we had Papa's party...

My family, including the cousins, came over for pizza, cake, sliding and snow cones...

The Thursday before school started, the art center where Bri had her art camp held a showcase in the evening. The art teachers held onto one piece of artwork (per camp) from each student for the showcase. Bri was supposed to have two pieces in the show. Sadly, one of her pieces was lost. We luckily saw her astronomy picture...

But no oceanography picture was displayed. I was not happy. We spent a lot of our time there trying to figure out where it was and what happened. The center started to say Bri that had probably/accidentally brought all her art home that week. Not true - I specifically heard the teacher that week convince Bri to leave a different piece than the one Bri had chosen to leave (Bri had originally picked a simple picture because she wanted to take her favorites home). I never saw which picture they finally decided on and Bri couldn't remember after two months. She and I finally figured out when we got home it was a seahorse picture. I e-mailed the center to let them know. I got an apology but unfortunately no picture. It's not the end of the world and Bri had a ton of great art that she brought home. But, I was upset the center tried to put the blame on a 7 year old and didn't seem to want to take responsibility for the mistake. They are just lucky that Bri had attended two camps. If I had gone all the way there to have nothing on the wall (with a disappointed kid), it would have been bad. Just sayin'.

And the Saturday before camp was the BIG event. 

Briana's Monster High/spa/fashion diva 8th birthday party extravaganza!

It was awesome...

I have so many pictures and so much to blog about regarding the party - that will be a whole other post (ok probably multiple posts - heh).

The party really was the wrap up to an amazing summer break. It really was great. I'm going to miss it. And miss my girl.

On the bright side, 3rd grade is going great so far...

Miss B got flowers from daddy on her first day of school...

And Briana finished her first big project for school. An "all about me" poster...

I can't believe it is Friday. I go in a couple of hours to pick B up from school. I have no plans for the weekend (except having Briana write lots of thank yous). I am still in recuperation mode from our gotcha day anniversary, B's birthday party and real birthday, B's open house and B's first day of school and B's school project. My dad also had surgery in the middle of all that, so I spent some time at the hospital too (he is doing really well now).

I'm ready to sleep in a bit tomorrow. I'm trying to get back into this waking up at 6AM thing and my body is feeling it!