Day 8 - Grace's Birthday Celebration at Rachels

Jake's family has a Sunday dinner get together every other Sunday.  This week, we celebrated Grace's birthday!  When we got there, Sadie had written a BDay greeting in chalk at the gate entrance.  I have a picture, but it's on my phone...I'll edit and post it later.  Grace felt so special!

She told me she wanted purple cupcakes with butterflies.  I couldn't find butterfly toppers, so sprinkles will have to do...I think they worked just fine!

Grandma Anderson handmade her the cutest caterpillar card.  I'll have to get a picture of that one also...so cute.  She also got a bunch of gifts and cards from her Aunts, Uncles and Cousins.  She felt like a princess!  More on her birthday in the upcoming week!

6th and 7th Days of Summer

Our neighborhood decided to have a huge garage sale on the 7th.  Perfect time to clear out some junk in the basement and closets.  Our activity for Friday was to pick out toys to sell.  Carson liked the idea of getting money, but hated the idea of parting from ANY of his precious toys (which he NEVER plays with).  Whatever.  He gathered a few things, but kept resisting so I just dropped it.  We'll just 'take care of them' after school starts ;)

Saturday was the sale.  Jake made a bunch of silly signs to get attention (Justin Beiber was the biggest hit), and they totally worked!  We were soooo busy all morning.  A bunch of cheapies, but we sold a bunch of crap and felt like it was a success!  The kids made some cash selling Otter Pops for 25 cents...what a deal!

Not really a 'fun summer activity', but definately a traditional one, so I'm counting it  :)

Under doing it on the fifth!

Today's activity is to hang around the house, play the compunter, watch tv, listen to the rain (yes, horay for rain!!), and do nothing of any real significance :)...it IS summer, after all! We may gather stuff up for the garage sale, but only if we feel like it.

Overdoing it on the fourth?

The fourth day of summer was a freebie...the Fourth of July! We started out at the annual Anderson Family Water Party. This year, grandma rented a bounce house! She also had a slip n slide, wading pool, water balloons and, of course, a yummy breakfast of biscuits and gravy! The kids had a blast! I took Carter home for a nap before the evening festivities at the Overbys. Grandma Overby turned 80 this year and all she wanted was a big party. This is their first year in the new house and the first opportunity for a party in the yard. It was a perfect day and Sue did not disappoint. The pom poms hanging from the tree and the table centerpieces were perfect. The frozen lemonade was DELISH as was the food. Sue broke out some water guns to cool everyone off. When we came home, there was a sign coming in to our neighborhood that said ther would be fireworks at 9...perfect. Happy Independence Day!!!

On the 3rd Day of Summer...

At first, I thought today was another "cheat" day. I needed to return some things to Old Navy and Gap so we were headed to the mall. At the last minute, we grabbed a towel and headed to the Gateway mall downtown to play in the fountains and then grab some Ben & Jerry's. I think it was a successful outing :) I'm on my iPad and can't figure out how to add pics, so I'll do that later...

2nd Day of Summer

As Carson and I were sitting on the front steps drawing 'green moss' with tree leaves and bark chips on the sidewalk, we decided that it would be fun to paint a big, huge flag in the driveway for the Fourth of July.  We have some chalk...how hard could it be?

First thing in the morning, still in our pajamas, we got started.  It was supposed to be around 100 degrees today, but we get nice morning shade until about noon in the front.  No time to waste!!

We mapped out the stripes with chalk and got to work.  One small stripe took 2 big pieces of chalk...and the red was very pink.  We needed to get some paint...quickly, while the driveway is still shaded!

We recruited some very helpful neighbors (also still in pajamas!).
Carter got tired of the jumparoo and decided to help by scooting around.  Aren't those chubby thighs even more delicious covered in BLUE?!?!

He started to get cranky so I decided to put him down for a nap before we hit Hobby Lobby for paint.  There goes the shade. Oh well.

3 bottles of red, 3 bottles of white, ONE bottle of blue?  Ugh!  One more trip to Hobby Lobby...after the baby's afternoon nap! 

  So we had a little break with snow cones.

Finally, we finished!  Nevermind the tire tracks from the 2nd paint run!

I thought about cutting a sponge in a star shape, but since I couldn't find a sponge, we decided all the helping hands could fill in as stars.  I thought it turned out super cute!

Happy Fourth of July!!  I hope the rest of our Summer Days can be as fun and fulfilling as this one!

25 Days of Summer

Carson's last day of Kindergarten was last Thursday.  He and Grace start their new adventure at Welby Elementary on July 25th.  As I was thinking about this last night, it hit me...today is July 1st.  That gives us 25 days of summer...just like at Christmas we have 25 days of Christmas!  I looked around for summer ideas and came across the cutest idea using tongue depressers, scrapbook paper and mod poge to make little sticks with activities on them (I would post a link, but I just spend 1 1/2 hours looking for the blog and gave up!!).  Knowing myself and my tendancy to over do and not follow through, I decided to forego the sticks and just tell the kids each day what our "25 Days of Summer" activity will be.

Since I thought of this at 11pm and I didn't have much time to plan...and it's Sunday, and we generally just go to church and relax on Sunday, our activity for the day was to meet Sweden, Lisa, London, Shawna, Samantha and Jordan, with Aunt Sue for breakfast.  They just happened to be passing through on their way to Colorado and wanted to meet for breakfast so it worked out perfect!

I realize I cheated a bit on this first day...I usually cheat at least a few times during the countdown, so I don't really care! :)

Tomorrow we'll be painting a flag on our driveway, which I'm actually pretty excited about.

Happy Summer!!!!!