Summer Bucket List 2015

Making conversation during meals with a six year old and a three year old is not always easy or appealing. A few weeks ago, in an attempt to avoid potty humor the kiddos and I came up with an idea to list all of the things we wanted to do over the summer. Here is our list, which took several meals to complete and allowed me not to hear tooting noises for the duration of the creation of our list!

1. Picnic on the property

2. Roast marshmallows

3. Camp on the property

4. Sleep outside

5. Sleepover at Mima and Poppis

6. Plant flowers

7. Start a garden

8. Make the ponds on the property pretty

9. Go for bike rides

10. Go star gazing

11. See fireworks

12. Go for four wheeler rides

13. Play on the playground

14. Have a pic in at the playground

15. Go to Gilbert Lake

16. Blow bubbles

17. Go on a water slide

18. Take swimming lessons

19. Go for long walks

20. Have family game nights

21. Have movie nights

22. Go to Wildwood, New Jersey

23. Build a sand castle

24. Go to the drive-in

25. Try to plan a trip to Disney World

26. Go swimming in a pool, a lake, and the ocean

27. Have play dates with friends - outside

28. Eat outside

29. Go on a hike

30. Have an outside dance party

31. Get ice cream from the ice cream man

32. Play boardwalk games in Wildwood, New Jersey

33. Catch lightning bugs

34. Make S'mores 

35. Fly kites

36. Go climbing

38. Go berry picking

39. Play outside

40. Go to the zoo

41. Visit Auntie

42. Move!!

43. Build a new house

44. Try new foods 

45. Go flower picking

Halloween 2015

Happy Halloween 2015! I love Halloween; I always have. This year everything is a little crazy because we are still waiting for our new house to be done, so we are living in limbo! Luckily, I knew right where our decorations were stored - well, some of them. We decorated with what we had on October first, like always. Pumpkin carving was definitely lacking this year, since we spend very little time in our "apartment" (which is a half a house attached to my in-laws). Normally I go crazy with the pumpkin designs, but we really only had one night available to carve. So, Mad Man wanted Chase from Paw Patrol which was fun. T wanted something Descendants, which I didn't figure out, so she carved her own! It was so much fun watching her figure out how to work the carving tools and the determination she had to get it just right was awesome!  As always I try to squeeze every drop of fun out of the month of October. We trick or treated at the mall, a retirement village, the college, and two neighborhoods. Fun!!