Summer Bucket List

School starts this week for us.  On tuesday they will go meet their teachers and on Wednesday school actually begins.  When the summer started we wrote out a bucket list and then lost it.  There were some ideas that didn't happen-like going to Waterworks Park, sad-and some that happened early on-like having a baby-

and then there were the things that we got done just in time.  Most of them only happened because we have had family in town for the last three weekends in a row.  

So out summer bucketlist included a trip to California (picking fruit from Mimi's house, playing on Mimi's ipad, getting ice cream from great-grandma's freezer, pilfering from grandma and grandpa's yard sale, Charlie's Seasame Chicken and La Comida)

Then Aunt Kaylee came and we got to play at Lithia park, watch Planes (not as good as Cars), hit up Dairy Queen and went yard selling for my first time this summer.

The following weekend was Ben's Mom and his sister's family.  It was our first time hanging out with Elissa and David since their wedding six years ago.  That weekend we finally made a fire, had s'mores, set up the tent in the backyard (thank you Peggy for sleeping outside with the girls), played at Jacksonville and hit up Coldstone.

And this last weekend Joey and Danielle came up.  We finally went on a bike ride!!  The kids have wanted to do a bike ride all summer.  Daisy learned how to ride a two-wheeler last week and so we went today to Bear Creek Park and rode there.  Blake has wanted to rude across this bridge for the past year and he did it today.

Summer is almost busier than the school year.  I can't wait for school to start because my girls are ready to go and I'm ready to take a break.