Summer Vacation

School is out!!

RR's summer vacation officially started on Monday afternoon. TT has been out of school since mid last week.

And so far... it's been a pretty good start to the summer. Now, if the weather would cooperate that would be great.

The boys are all signed up for the summer reading program and have eagerly dived into the books they got at the library today. Well, expect RR; he has like 5 new books on his Kindle. So he's diving into that. It doesn't have the same ring... but you get the idea.

This summer we are avoiding the "Summer Bucket List". We did this last year and in the end it made me depressed for not "doing anything". Seriously.

And with not having a list we've already done more items on last year's list than we did last year.

I made gummie bear popsicles. Yeah, I'm cool like that.
We went for a hike already.
We've been to several playgrounds.
We've been to Six Flags a couple times. Yup, got the boys season passes for Christmas.

And really I figure, between the season passes, the new park in town, the hiking club and the new pool and the summer reading program... really... what else do we need to do. Oh yeah... the weather to work out so the pool can get set-up.

School is out! Summer is here!

And oh yeah; summer surgery. Surgery for my partial thyroid removal is set for July 29. Talk about big and happening summer plans.

This summer is going to fly by. Between all of the things above to do. RR going to camp for a week in July. My surgery. And then heading to Maine to see my mom in August. It will be back to school time before we know it.

Here's to a great summer - can you see me raising my glass - now if only I can squeeze in a few coffee dates with my girlfriends.

Let's Go Fly a Kite

Earlier this summer we; Husband, RR and myself, sat down and make a bucket list of things we would like to do this summer.  While I know the trend to do this is popular these days, this is the first time we have done so.

A couple weekends ago we were able to quickly cross two things off our list - fly a kite and make homemade ice cream (blueberry cheesecake - YUM!!).  And since then nothing else has been crossed off.  Last weekend, we had ERP's baptism.  This weekend we went to Husband's family re-union - wait does that count as a BBQ on our bucket list?  We had been planning on finding a new park this evening and having a picnic dinner - but it keeps getting darker and darker outside.  I guess we'll have to see what the weather holds.

PS - did you see RR's goal added to the end?