We went to the water park

On Saturday we spent the day at Rapids Water Park. It was a perfect sunny day and we all had a blast! Although I did find out that apparently I’m terrified of small enclosed water slides, so the guys went on those without me. We did the bigger slides together, plus the Lazy River. It was so much fun! Everyone’s favorite was the Big Thunder. Such a rush!

 

 

 

We took a bunch more pictures, but shirtless pics of the guys and pics of me in a little tankini aren’t for public consumption. You’re welcome 😛

One more thing checked off our List.

Summer Bucket List update

We’ve reached the halfway mark with our summer with the Little Man. It has flown by! We never ever have enough time to do everything we want to. Ever. Which makes me sad. But I’ll have plenty of time to be sad next month, so no sense in rushing that.

Here are the results of our summer bucket list so far-

• swim- Check, plus a couple other times.
• beach
• water park
• parks and nature walks Half Check. We did a few things on our trip, but we still want to squeeze in some local parks if we can.
• document our adventures- Check. I’m using a combination of Project Life cards + Instagram + Momento to keep track of things. I’m also trying to slip in a few blog posts here and there for remembering the routine everyday stuff. I’ll gather everything together and do something with it this Fall.
• football- Check. Much more football than soccer this year. We started a new tradition of playing during rest stops while on the road too.
• soccer- Check.We’ve played every day this week.
• comics- Check. We went to the comic book store and he racked up a few, most of which he’s read already today.
• roller skate
• basil lemonade
• pizza
• ice cream
• skateboard park
• birthday party for the Little Man- in the planning process. This year it has been INSANE trying to plan something. Long story, but I think I finally have an idea that’ll stick.
• epic road trip to West Virginia and Washington D.C. Check Plus. I probably won’t write about it until August or September. (I still need to finish up New York). But we did it, and it was awesome!
• 4th of July party

A pretty good start, I’d say!

I’ll post some pictures soon. iPhoto and I aren’t getting along super well right now.

First swim of the summer.

Sunday we took Little Man on his first swim of the season. He did great! He hasn’t been swimming since last summer, but he jumped right in and took off.

We’re off to a great start marking things off our Summer list.

iNSD Challenge at BPC- Summer 2013 Bucket List

Last weekend was (inter)National Scrapbook Day. I’ve celebrated several iNSD’s since I started scrapbooking, but this one was different. I had a budget of $0. I was a little bummed about that, but I was still able to acquire a bunch of freebies! I will always be grateful for the generosity of designers who share their awesome goodies for free.

I needed something to occupy myself on Sunday, so I looked around for a few challenges. I love challenges! I’d say 95% of the pages I’ve ever made have been for a challenge of some sort.

Big Picture Classes had ten fantastic challenges for iNSD and I did 7 of them! (I’ll probably come back and do a couple more of them at some point). I loved all the inspiring pages from some of my favorite scrapbookers.

The first challenge was to fill out a form. I can see several pages coming from that, so I’ll share those at another time. I did make six other pages for challenges at BPC. I’ll be sharing them in the next few days.

The first challenge was to make a Summer Bucket List. You know I was all over that one! I’m a big fan of bucket lists for each season. Here is last year’s list and a post on what we accomplished. (I can’t believe I never blogged about our St. Augustine adventures! I’m terrible at blogging our travels).

Here’s my page showing this summer’s Bucket List.

 This is one of my favorite pages! Not just for the subject, which is super fun in itself, but I love throwing all these trendy things one one page. Stripes, flairs, mustaches, stamps, journaling cards, chevron, arrows, and washi! It is trend-tacular 🙂

Here’s our list:

• swim
• beach
• water park
• parks and nature walks
• document our adventures
• football
• soccer
• comics
• roller skate
• basil lemonade
• pizza
• ice cream
• skateboard park
• birthday party for the Little Man
• epic road trip to West Virginia and Washington D.C.
• 4th of July party

I looked at the list and got a little bummed because there are so many BOY things on the list, so my personal addition is to paint my nails in pink sparkly polish. Okay that’s a little gender normative of me, so let me rephrase that. There are a lot of things that involve being outside and getting sweaty doing things that require coordination. So I’ve added an activity that requires sitting still in my air-conditioned house. Much more up my alley 🙂

Layout credits:
Just Be You Kraft, Alpha, Everyday Stuff, Messy Stuff, and Elements by Simple Girl Scraps
Lobster and Lavendar Lime fonts

Summer Manifesto Update

I was going to write about our new Fall Manifesto, but realized I haven’t finished up the summer one. There are a lot of summer things I haven’t finished though. Nothing new there.

This was my Summer Manifesto List. You can follow the links for specifics.

1. Do something cool for Father’s Day. Check.
2. Do something new in California. Check Check.
3. Go to St. Augustine. check. to be blogged eventually
4. Go swimming as much as possible. Check
5. Go to a park. Check.
6. Go to a water park. no
7. Make homemade lemonade. Check
8. Make ice cream. no
9. Make pickles. no
10. Do something for the 4th. Check
11. Make pizza. Check. We made this plus thai chicken pizza
12. Eat outside. Check
13. Go to the beach. Check (also to be blogged one day)
14. Do crafty stuff. Check.
15. Love on these guys. A lot. Check plus 🙂

I really loved doing this, and might make it a recurring seasonal thing. We did our list for fall yesterday. It’s kind of ambitious, but we’re going to have a blast checking things off.

Remembering summer

Oh summer. You are by far, the busiest time of year for us. You are always a roller coaster. We move through you with a frenetic pace. We base our whole year around you in many ways. We start many sentences with, “This summer..” or “Next summer…” You are the season where we finally get to be a complete family. You are the season where we get that family ripped away. You truly are the best of times and the worst of times.

This was the summer when we finally got unpacked and everything was mostly settled.

This was the summer Jason worked so much.

This was the summer I got to stay home with the Little Man for the first time.

This was the summer of talking a lot and doing even more.

This was the summer of Angry Birds and basil lemonade.

This was the first summer when we took LM to the beach for his birthday.

This was the first time he flew on his own.

This was the summer I blogged and scrapbooked all over the place.

This was such a stressful summer for Jason in so many ways, but as always he handled things with a level of patience and perseverance that  amazes me.

This summer we were kind of hermits, but we loved it that way.

This was the first summer since we got married that I haven’t seen my family.

This was the summer of eye problems and the Hunger Games.

This was the summer of Amelia Peabody and Pinterest.

This was the summer of baking bread and playing outside.

This was the summer we watched the Olympics. A lot.

This was the summer of conversations at the (kitchen) bar.

This was the summer we swam.

This was the summer of L.A. and St. Augustine.

This was the summer of getting to know Jason’s dad a little better and getting to know the Little Man a lot better.

This was the summer of working with my husband as a team, and making a home together that truly feels like “ours”.

This was the summer I tried desperately to help my sister from afar.

This summer I cried a lot. But I laughed so much more.

This is the summer I finally found peace with a part of my life I’ve been struggling with for years.

This has been the best summer. Ever.

Summer Manifesto

I know the summer is partially over for most people, but ours got started a little late this year. So here is my Summer Bucket List for 2012.

1. Do something cool for Father’s Day. Check.
2. Do something new in California. Check Check.
3. Go to St. Augustine.
4. Go swimming as much as possible.
5. Go to a park. Check.
6. Go to a water park.
7. Make homemade lemonade.
8. Make ice cream.
9. Make pickles.
10. Do something for the 4th.
11. Make pizza.
12. Eat outside.
13. Go to the beach.
14. Do crafty stuff.
15. Love on these guys. A lot.

I’ll be linking up to Ali Edwards’ Summer Manifesto post.