summer recap 2024

Hey, friends!

Is it just me or did this summer go by so fast? I honestly feel like it should still be June, but it’s not and I’m starting school on Monday and summer is pretty much over sadly. Anyway, before I write anymore fall posts (go check out my fall aesthetics from last week!), I wanted to do my usual summer recap with my favorite things that I did/happened this summer. Enjoy reading!

• swim team!!
  
• crazy .5s with my siblings and friends
  
• lutsen mountains vacation (go read the post here!)
  
• getting two new kittens (until one died a couple weeks ago )
  
• fourth of july run & two 5ks!
  
• summer running w/ my team & training for xc (302 miles later, somehow i’m still here )
  
• sunsets on the drive home
  
• camp character/vbs
  
• bible journaling <3
  
• youth group mini golf trip (this was so much fun until i got stung and had to stick my hand in one of the waterfalls bc no one had water and then we spent like twenty minutes trying to get a hole in one on the last hole )
  
• my birthday
  
• finishing drivers ed! (it was torture )
  
• watching my brother at state track in june +. a huge graduation party for him
  
• ice cream at least 1x a week (which is literally nothing compared to last summer, trying to make good choices )
  
• ranger rides in the dark
  
• finally getting a boat (hopefully, we’re picking it up on friday and last time we tried to pick it up was a distaster haha. i started off this summer trying to get my parents to put in a pool, then get an island (i was kidding about this one, mostly ), and now we’re getting a boat in a couple days and i’m so excited!!)
  
• bonfires with friends
  
• reading new books (favorites of the summer: the war that saved my life, bloomability, and half a chance)
  
• mini day trips w/ my family
  
• seeing God answer something i’d been praying for for months <3
  
• making new things (half the time they turned out, half the time they didn’t )
  
• going on walks + listening to podcasts (& recording my own w/ mayim!)
  
• going to door county for a couple days + staying right by lake michigan!
  
• sleepoversss
  
• iced coffee & chai lattes

now, it’s your turn!

I hope you guys had a great summer and I would love to hear what you did or your favorite part in the comments!!

Pearl