Reese Bronson and Kendall Starr: Here comes the off-season

For the past three years, September has always marked a dramatic change in our lives. Slidewaters closes Dad returns for weekday dinners, bath time and bedtime and even made a couple appearances in the middle of the day. The past two years we started our road trip back to Tucson, but this year we decided to stick around Washington a little longer.

Kendall and I made sure we spent as much time as possible at Slidewaters. During the last week of the season, we got to slide with our cousins, and we started to teach Kendall to slide solo on Bugaboo. Sammy took me down three different big slides and took his job as protector very seriously, which Dad says gives him great peace about the future.

After Slidewaters closed and we settled down a little bit, we took our friends the Peterson’s to the Bordner family cabin on Camano Island in Puget Sound. Our week was bookended with beautiful sunny days and we had a great time with great friends playing in the sand, on the hammock and with our food. GP & BB visited on our last days and we loved sharing our time with them at this special place.

We spent the rest of September catching up on family time we miss from our busy summers. We took a couple boat rides, checked out the lazy river project at Slidewaters, and went on more family jogs in two weeks than we had in four months. And as some of our loyal readers have certainly noticed, we have worked hard to catch up on our blog.