Back to school & the end of summer

Believe it or not... we have a SENIOR in the house!!!! I have NO idea where the time has gone, but bring it on, and all the fun that goes with it!

We wrapped up our last days of summer with a last-minute idea to go and see "Mamma Mia" together for Abby & I...

... while Dad and Emily waited out a storm and went to her first "real" concert to see "Cage the Elephant"!

The neighbors also got to enjoy an outdoor Justin Moore concert together on a beautifully warm night...

Abby & "Friend Emily" ALSO had an awesome night out together at the "Cigarettes After Sex" concert...

The best part of back to school autumn nights are football games with friends!

My Bunco group celebrated the return of football too! The Beach Family is SO sporty now!!!!

Fantasy Lake

Round 2 of Ben's birthday was a day at Fantasy Lake with friends! We love it there, and had to cancel last month because of weather, but we had NO idea the storm that was about to roll in! We got in 58 awesome minutes of play before they called it for rain, and since we were there for less than an hour, we got rain checks to come back another time! Thanks to everyone for coming with us and making some awesome memories!

I got more pictures of the grown ups this time since the kids were off and running, and we did a lot more falling than we did staying on!

A few of us did the cliff jumping too!

Check out those storm clouds rolling in...

It was quite a thunderstorm, and the ride back to house was awful!!!

We all made it back safe and sound though, and celebrated Ben's 13th one more time together with pizza, donuts, and the usual clarinet performance of "Happy Birthday"!