Father's Day

We did not knock do a lot of our Summer Bucket list this week but we still had fun!

1. I spent the week doing crafts with 3rd graders at a local VBS and all 3 of my children attended as well.

2. We had a date night with my 2 older kids that included dinner, donuts, and Toys R Us.

3. It rained a lot this week so in the afternoons the kids and I completed some Father's Day projects.

We made a candy card for the Papaws in our lives that turned out like this :

All 3 kids made cards for their dad. Jax's was an interview about his dad, Sawyer's was about how his dad is a super hero including a picture of them building Legos, and Isabella's was a Father's Day Mad Lib (I will find the links later)

We also filled up a cookie jar with Seth's favorite chocolate cookies and made a chalkboard label (we just spray painted a name tag with chalkboard paint) that said "Daddy's a Cookie Monster"

Last but not list we made a big poster with reason why Daddy is the best.

This weekend we went on a road trip. Let me tell you, my children are SPOILED! We almost always fly if the trip is longer than a few hours. Well, this time we were going to West Virginia for a wedding and we DROVE for a whole 5 hours and I thought they were going to die! They made it though and here is what they did at 10:30 pm when we made it to our motel:

We have a rule that you can only jump on motel beds so they were supper excited when we got there!

The wedding was beautiful and so is the scenery in WV and Virginia. Tennessee has mountains but they have MOUNTAINS. The drive up and back was so beautiful!

To finish off our great road trip we went to Pigeon Forge and used our season passes to Dollywood, it was a perfect day. Hardly any lines and we got to watch an awesome new bubble show!

Summer Fun 2014

I have decided to take this blog in a different direction. I am still trying to become a super Flab-U-Less Mom but while I am trying to do that I am raising 3 wonderful kids, trying to be a great wife, helping my parents who are up in years, and hopefully I am being a good friend as well. I want this blog to be something my kids can look back on and say "We sure did have a lot of fun doing that!" I love facebook but I don't necessarily want to put EVERYTHING on there. I hope that if people want to read this blog they can but if they don't they don't have to see my crazy life unless they want to. I hope some of you want to go on this journey with me but if not that is ok too!

This summer we decided to do a "Summer Bucket List" We did this last year as well but to be honest I didn't think through a lot of the kids choices and we were not able to do a lot of things. Here are some of the fun things we did the past 2 weeks.

1. We started out at the zoo (We got a groupon for a zoo membership and unlimited carousel rides for $45). The kids had a blast and we even got to go to an educational show.

2. Swimming with Daddy at the Y (this is a rare treat because he works so much)
3. A visit with Ms. Katie and Isabella's recital weekend (we went out to eat, got ice cream, watched a big girl movie, and went to Jumpin Junction).
4. The boys went to a super fun VBS and Isabella went to her first tennis camp.

5. We decided after bathtime and the kids already had their PJs on to go eat at Orange Leaf (the kids thought it was hilarious that we were leaving the house in their PJs and with wet hair!)

6. We made rain clouds

Here is the link where you can find out how to do this experiment:

diy-rain-clouds

7. We spontaneously decided to go to the pool (looked at the radar and there was NO rain!) but when we got there it started pouring! The kids ate some pizza under the umbrella and then I sent them to play in the rain

8. We had a bonfire and once again it rained but we had a lot of fun with our friends!
9. Today was National Donut day so we went to Chattanooga with some friends to Chick-Fil-A and McKay's and also went and got a free donut!

Not too shabby for the first two weeks of summer break. I know you are on the edge of your seat to find out what we do next week but you will just have to wait a week =)