Kicking Off Summer

We are soooo excited to finally have warm weather! We are basking in it every second possible and loving it. I have tons of fun summer plans I'm working on and we are looking forward to lots of extra-special memory making moments over the next few months.

We will still have Drue coming two days a week this summer, but we are done watching Allie and Aubree as their mom is a teacher so they get to spend their summer with her! Thankfully Drue is a trooper for most things and really seems to appreciate and enjoy getting time at the park, playing in the sprinkler etc. As long as weather cooperates we will likely have park days most "Drue days" as we call them. (Mondays and Wednesdays for those of you who may not know!) She also has two grandmas in town, so her parents are great about any days we will need to be gone.

(Just a disclaimer these pictures are spanning at least two weeks...just took a while to get everything up that I wanted in this post!)

Trampoline Time

Sprinkler Fun

Home-Made Pudding Pops

Umbrellas and Rain Boots

Library Fun

I'm thrilled that Columbus Public Library has some great activities for kids this summer. We get an entire schedule of events! You will see many more to come, I'm sure, but we are starting out with some animals from a local zoo that were brought in for kids to see up-close. The kids were infatuated with the alligator. They also really loved the hedgehog and how he was wiggling his nose.

And...their first magician! He was so fun, GREAT with the kids and really knew how to make them laugh and ham it up. I was quite impressed.

Treasure Hunt

We went a little crazy getting excited about summer this year...a treasure hunt and bucket list...I must have time to think straight and look up stuff on pinterest now. ;) They LOVED having a picture hunt for the summer treasure. I tried to take the pics of objects up-close thinking it would take them a while to figure out, but only one of the inside of a basket slowed them down even a second. They would make great pirates. ;) It was mostly new sand toys, squirt guns and cups. I'm excited to start our summer bucket list items soon!

Enjoying some of their new items. Their were some horses with princesses/knights with one set of sand toys and those have been such a huge hit. Great for those imaginations too! :) We enjoyed a lemonade and book picnic in the backyard.
The day before this Lorelei and I got some great girl time sitting in the shade, drinking lemonade and reading Little House On The Prairie books (Which we were thrilled to find in picture book form at the library!!!) while Makin napped (she gets up earlier most days). Just a fun memory I want to remember but didn't have my camera. :)

Summer Fun Bucket List

Just a few of the fun things we want to make sure and do this summer!
(Except strawberry picking might be out because of the cold snap in May! :( )

Have a feeling we are going to keep plenty busy and it will go way too fast!