Well....we've not been needed too much....we were there when Kaycee and Gordon said good bye to their sweet Layla, but that's not anything we want to talk about.  We've been dreaming though....dreaming of the life we felt we were born to.  There have been promises and hopes this Summer, but nothing solid....nothing a pair of sandals would want to blog about.

Well....that's all true until this past week.  We heard that Kaycee and Gordon were making a plan to go to a lake....A LAKE!!!!!   It's not salt water, but it's a lake, AND then Kaycee said she was only going to wear her sandals....that meant there would be only one pair of shoes going on this trip....Kaycee was only going to wear us!!!!!  We couldn't believe it.

The night before the trip there was a giant thunder storm, our hopes were pretty dashed, we couldn't imagine that Kaycee would want to take us if it was raining, but she packed us in her pack pack and we were off.

And so Gordon and Kaycee drove in the rain and the cold....we thought that maybe our Summer was over, and we would never have the chance to be in the water, to fulfill our destiny.

Gordon and Kaycee got to their little house on Alder Lake....it was as if Gordon manifested this place through his hopes plans....the dogs were even happy and calm when they got there.

Kaycee put us on the next day....the sun seemed to be coming out and she sat on the dock and read while Gordon fished....the dogs played around the dock and we all seemed to be having a good time.  It was a beautiful place and it seemed that Gordon and Kaycee were the most relaxed they had ever been.  This really seemed like the kind of place where people could relax....when Kaycee wasn't reading she was napping or playing epic games of solitaire.....she even put her feet in the water while she read....this was a vacation.

And so the next day, she put us on again....she walked down to the dock and guess what she did....she jumped in the water!!!!!!!!!!!  It was one of those moments where you are where you are supposed to be, doing what you are supposed to do....like Julia Child in the kitchen, Gordon with a knife, or Kaycee making jam.....you are doing what you were born to do...and so Kaycee and Gordon swam and floated...Kaycee dove under the water, like she was 8 again.  It made her miss her sister....the Stewarts decided they would come back, and they would bring Kaycee's sister with them....it was amazing....we FINALLY were in water and we were LOVING EVERY MINUTE OF IT!!!

The next night Kaycee put us on, and she and Gordon went out to look at the stars....they had never seen such stars....so many so bright....they were lost in the stars, they could even see the way the earth curved around....and they saw constellations that they had no idea what they were called, but they saw them.

In your life you get very few chances to relax....truly relax....and this is what Gordon and Kaycee got to do....so incredibly  peaceful....doing what they loved AND we got to be part of it too!

And so, our first Summer as the shoes that Kaycee wore we really had an amazing day too....we've gone to work, the zoo and a few other things but we finally got a chance to do what we were born to do....swim with our girl and be part of a vacation where she just got to be with her husband, her dogs, some books and some good beers......what a vacation.