Summer's unexpected joys (and challenges)

With August nearly upon us, we've been trying to soak up every bit of July and what remains of summer break. Grayson is enjoying his last week of camp and I've been trying to keep him entertained indoors in the afternoons while we had a stretch of 102+ days.

He made a few paper airplanes one day at camp and has been obsessed with folding all kinds of different styles of planes. We broke out a couple of paper airplane books that Nana gave us a while back and went to town.

Cooling off with some banana/peanut butter/chocolate smoothies while we fold some new paper airplanes.

We've had a rough patch of things breaking lately in the heat. Our AC had a leaky pipe, then a few days later the pool pump sprung a leak. Michael's bike that they commute on also had a part break unexpectedly which needed some attention. Daddy and his mini-me have been busy with all the handyman work. Daddy is also installing some new lights in the living room so we can finally mark everything off our list with that part of the house. I'm very lucky to have such handy fellas!

We finally had a break in the heat for a few days and took an afternoon road trip to explore some county roads with the windows down. We found the Edge of the Earth, which apparently is in Cleveland County, OK in case you were wondering. 

We also stumbled across a local wildlife management area and explored a few dirt roads. Gray inherited his daddy's love for off-roading. I happened to look back in my side mirror and caught him riding with his head out the window soaking up the sunshine and enjoying the breeze on his face.