Goodbye, Summer

We are officially about a week into fall, although it doesn't feel like it.  Temperatures are still hovering over 100 degrees, so it feels very much like summer still.  Although we do notice the days getting shorter and the light quality changing, so we're hopeful that the weather will soon follow suit.

I think we all just feel thankful that the summer of 2011 is drawing to a close.  Despite every attempt to keep busy, many days dragged on.  Austin officially had the hottest summer on record, and as of today, we've had 90 days over 100 degrees.  We're also suffering from an extreme drought, now officially the worst on record. 

Despite the miserable weather, we did manage to have some fun this summer.  Clearly I didn't keep up with the blog this summer, so I'll try to do a quick recap.

June was mostly taken up with Rhys's All-Stars.  July was taken up by camps.  Avery went to Austin Chamber Music Center's Summer Workshop for the second year in a row.  She really liked her groups this year, and loved the chance to play with different instruments.

Rhys went to the Brandy Perryman Shooting Camp for the second year in a row.  This year a friend of his was there too, and the two of them cleaned up!  Rhys won the free throw competition, his team won the camp championship, and Rhys's friend won the three-pointer competition.

Griffin took gymnastics over the summer and had a little mini-meet.  He did great and earned all blue ribbons!

 

In August, the boys liked to play tennis in the morning...

...and we swam often in the afternoon...

And of course we spent plenty of time with friends.

Bill and the kids went to Bookpeople for the book release party for Darth Paper.

And Rhys and Bill walked with the All-Stars team in the Hutto centennial parade.

And, last but definitely not least, Griffin lost his first tooth!