{"id":618,"date":"2009-08-11T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=618"},"modified":"2009-08-11T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T01:45:00","slug":"last-days-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/618","title":{"rendered":"Last days of summer&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"null\"><\/a>What we&#8217;ve been up to these last precious days of summer vacation :)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"null\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2474\/3801171574_d872551bd4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tired but happy, Abbey LOVED her week at the church and working all 14 clubs that she helped lead!\u00c2\u00a0 We are extremely proud of her&#8230;last year, we couldn&#8217;t have paid her to participate in Power Up Clubs.\u00c2\u00a0 The thought scared her to death.\u00c2\u00a0 This year, she couldn&#8217;t imagine NOT doing it, and it shows how much she has matured both mentally and spiritually.\u00c2\u00a0 She can&#8217;t wait for next year!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"null\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3485\/3800351845_967e7b08f3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Power Surge (our end of PUC extravaganza at church) was a huge hit with all the kids, especially Lainey.\u00c2\u00a0 She rode down a water slide, had her hair sprayed with red streaks (kinda hard to see), and slurped down a whole BLUE snowcone!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"null\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2444\/3809431455_7b5a28912a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ethan takes guitar lessons during the school year at our homeschool co-op on Fridays.\u00c2\u00a0 For the summer, our friend Steve came over every Monday night for one-on-one lessons.\u00c2\u00a0 EJ absolutely eats and breathes the guitar, and he&#8217;s been practicing A LOT.\u00c2\u00a0 Steve has mad skills, and Ethan soaked it all in.\u00c2\u00a0 He learned so much this summer, we&#8217;re so glad that Steve had the time to work with him!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"null\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2659\/3810244102_11e2e7a809.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of guitar, Abbey is taking\u00c2\u00a0a beginner class\u00c2\u00a0at co-op this year.\u00c2\u00a0 Ethan is trying to give her a jumpstart!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"null\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3442\/3810244772_bdc719ca85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>someone&#8217;s hair FINALLY grew long enough to squeeze into pig tails!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"null\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3452\/3810244716_6e03322031.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"null\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3527\/3810244824_db2a99da42.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s shoutin&#8217; it from the rooftops :)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"null\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2532\/3809430855_047c0afa4f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No, we didn&#8217;t get another dog&#8230;we&#8217;re dog sitting for our friends so they can spend their last days of summer in the Florida Keys.\u00c2\u00a0 Cammie is a cutie, but Jack keeps looking at us like &#8220;is she&#8230;uh&#8230;staying?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There is more I could post, but it&#8217;s been a llllooonngg day, so I&#8217;m closing this post.\u00c2\u00a0 Yawn&#8230; Happy almost end of summer, ya&#8217;ll.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"null\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What we&#8217;ve been up to these last precious days of summer vacation :) Tired but happy, Abbey LOVED her week at the church and working all 14 clubs that she helped lead!\u00c2\u00a0 We are extremely proud of her&#8230;last year, we couldn&#8217;t have paid her to participate in Power Up Clubs.\u00c2\u00a0 The thought scared her to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}