Last Days of Summer...

The Summer went by way too fast...

Cincinnati 2013: Part 3

My 4th of July cutie:

Catching lightning bugs:

Date night:

Salem Gardens

 311 at Riverbend:

Reds baseball game:

Goodbye 1364.  Thank you for the years of wonderful memories.

Cincinnati 2013: Part 2

Skyline Chili for lunch:

Coney Island:

First visit to Sunlite pool (still the world's largest recirculating swimming pool):

First time off a diving board:

Coney Island fireworks:

Cincinnati 2013: Part 1

This post is bittersweet.  I spent all of my childhood summers in Cincinnati, OH visiting my paternal grandparents.  We usually spent a month there.  We had many friends, favorite places to eat, and traditional places to visit each summer.  This trip was on the sad side for me as it may be one of my last visits to a city I love so much.  We went to help clean out my grandparent's house to ready it for sale.  It was hard to watch as piece by piece, my grandparents' belongings were carried off in a stranger's hands at our estate sale.  When we weren't working hard, we tried out best to eat our favorite foods and make a few lasting memories of my childhood memories with our daughter.

Little California Woods:

Taylor with Frisch's Big Boy:

Big Boy burger with lots of tartar sauce:

Jungle Jims's:

The Krohn Conservatory: 

I have pics of her on this bench from 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2013:

Ohio River from Eden Park:

Sanibel 2013

We were fortunate to spend a long weekend on Sanibel Island again this year.  We enjoyed collecting shells on the beach with our dogs during a fabulous sunset, a little shopping, and lunch with local friends.  We were also celebrating my husband's birthday.

Turtle nesting tracks: 

Father's Day

We were visiting family over the weekend for Father's Day.  We started our day at the crack of dawn by going to the beach.

We visited the carousel:

 And finished out the day with a beer tasting:

I spray painted a mini grapevine wreath hot pink and glued a finger star fish onto it.  This is going to hang on a small side wall next to the hand towel.

I hand painted this sign to hang on the wall.  It points to the door that connects this bathroom with our pool patio.

This wreath will hang out on the window of the pool patio door.  These are all collected shells (except for the sand dollar) from last summer's trip to Sanibel Island.

And finally, I spray painted a cast iron mermaid hook I found at Hobby Lobby. I placed it on the tiny divider wall between the shower and toilet to hang an easy to reach towel for showering.

(post painting/pre-hanging)