AUGUST

This month was all about The 2012 Summer Olympics in London, my Summer Peak Program ending and Sierra going off to college! She started packing the first week...

and of course with packing comes organizing and throwing out or giving away stuff!

My Summer Peak program ended on the 9th of August, the kids had requested a pajama party. So after reading time and our daily walk we had a party outside in the park. I brought them ice cream sandwiches...which they loved! I wore the PJs Doug made for me.

Well as you know Doug and Sierra like YELLOW...so when I was browsing Walmart 1 day and saw this material I knew I had to get it for them! Doug made us each a pair of jammies :)

We taped the Summer Olympics and watched them at our leisure through out the first couple of weeks in August. We mostly watched swimming and gymnastics, archery and kayaking. FAST forwarding, races, triathalons, mountain biking, horse jumping...We did watch the volley ball teams especially when it was USA vs USA!!!

The Women's Gymnastics team got GOLD!!!

Then all to soon the 16th was upon us and it was time to take Sierra to college. That morning we packed up her car and the truck and we drove to CSU. Here we are following Sierra.

Our first View of CSU. We parked and Sierra looked at the map and realized we needed to go further East. Here is her car all packed. Notice the cute coed :)

Doug waited in the truck while Sierra and I went inside and so she could check in and get her key.

Checking in, signing her contract and getting the key to her room

THE ROOM

So While Doug and Sierra were bringing in her Refrigerator. A man approached me with a sort of golf cart and he loaded the rest of the stuff in the truck and took me around back to the elevator. Then while I moved the stuff up to her room. Sierra and Doug traded for her car and a group of coeds brought all the rest of Sierra's stuff up to her room. It was slick to be done so fast! THE STUFF

Stuff and the sink

The shower

The loo

Her half of the closet

Then we went to lunch. We drove around until we found this cute little buffet. It was a decent price and delicious!

Then we went outside and Doug told Sierra how to get back to campus,we hugged and said our goodbyes and then she drove off. I felt jipped! I wanted to get a picture with her,to walk around campus and see where some of her clasees were. Doug wanted to go! I was so upset....I was getting some ice and we realized Sierra left the chocolate she made. So I made Doug go back to her dorm so I could give it to her and say a "proper goodbye" and get pictures. It still felt anti climatic when I left but there wasn't this huge hole in my heart like before.

A last LOOK...

I kept it together until I came home and I saw her room stripped down...

then I sat and her bed and cried!!! She called me that night all excited and that helped A LOT!!!!

So now it is just the 2 of us again!

A fire and tinfoil dinners and Skipbo..I won twice!