on to bigger and better things...

 

With Miss Charlotte Claire after the ceremony, which I obviously survived.  Yes, Paul wore shoes, but I guess he couldn't resist that nice green grass.

Camille, Paul, me, Char, and Sonja's fiance Oscar. (Sonja was taking the picture)

Sonja, Char, Camille

So it was very hot, but there was an inconsistent breeze.  Miss Char was the loveliest girl there, does every mama think that?  Shh, it also seemed like a big trick, she cannot be that old already, she was just dressing up in a graduation gown...

I'm glad I bought that graduation cake.  We came home, made some nachos, and they got into the cake.  (I tasted it, super yummy, but I had low sugar yogurt with some mini chocolate chips)(Aldi brand Greek yogurt with 2 grams of sugar).  

This fine morning, I shouldn't be sitting here blogging on and on.  No, I should be getting ready, we're going camping very soon.  Of course the weather is changing, cooling down, rain coming in, dang.  But at least we'll be able to be in the camper.  Sleeping in a camper in the rain is a fine thing.  

The dogs are coming with us, sleeping in a camper in the rain with wet dogs taking up every last inch of floor space is not so charming.  We considered leaving Suri, aka Tubby the Tubster, home.  (not alone, a few kids will be here).  But she knows we're going.  She heaves herself up to follow us around when we're packing, she just KNOWS.  She loves loves loves going bye-bye.  Paul has to lift her rear haunches up into the truck, and help her out when we get there.  She limps along, last time we went she definitely overdid it and had a rough night.  She pants and whines when she's overdone it.  We do have some doggy pain meds for her, but she's old and fat and has arthritis. Sounds familiar.  I do feel her pain.

Sunny can be a Royal Pain when we're camping.  They have to be tied up, she'll just lie there all chill...then a nice unassuming couple will stroll by with a little yappy dog, and Sunny will just BOLT to the end of her line, ROWF ROWF ROWF, scaring the little dog half to death, sounding so big and mean.  She really doesn't mind other people, or other dogs, she's actually kind of shy, but for some reason she sees fit to do this, randomly.   Just to keep us on our toes.  But, she's gotten so much better than she used to be, Labs are pretty adjustable.  If we went all the time, she'd be fine.

Ah well, these floors need vacuuming, I have laundry in the washer, there's refrigerator stuff that needs to go into the camper refrigerator.  Camper refrigerator, how fine is that?  Mmm hmmm.  It's hands down better than the cooler.  Oh the little luxuries in life.  Also, we did snag a fully electric site for this little trip, so if it gets warm and sticky, we can turn on the camper air conditioning!   

It's a small camper, but oh I love it.

All right...time to get moving.  You all have a nice day!