Summer Bucket List

Sharing our summer bucket list for 2022! We LOVE summer over at our house. I feel like it’s just so much fun and we love being outside every single day. I wanted to share some things we are wanting to do this summer to give you some ideas with your kids. Let me know what you plan on doing in the comments!

I bought a few new things from Target for the kids to use in our backyard. I like to do a little refresh outside and get some new water toys, bubbles, shovels and things like that. I love the Sun Squad line at Target for outdoor toys. They are all really affordable, super fun and colorful and great for summertime. I’ll link all the things I got for you in this post along with some other things online that look really cute too!

Summer Bucket List 2022

• summer nature scavenger hunt

  We love scavenger hunts these days. We did a spring one and one for Easter. I write down things like, something that crawls/something yellow/something flying and make some type of theme. The kids then draw a picture of what they find down on their clip board and it’s really a fun way to get us all outside together. For summer I’ll things like, a lizard, a bee, a brightly colored flower, ants, grasshopper and so on! Let me know if you make on for your kiddos!

• arts & crafts

  Painting is definitely our go-to craft. It’s so fun to see what they come up with. Some days I’ll have something for them to paint and other days I’ll just say paint whatever you’d like. We use craft paper or I’ll find boxes that’ll be thrown out for them to paint. One time we had a huge box and we made it into a little playhouse and I drew a door and windows then let them color the rest. We also love play doh and cookie cutters, dot markers and I love looking on Pinterest for specific ideas. And if you haven’t given your kids paint brushes and a cup of water to use outside you need to today! My kids will “paint” the rocks or fence for so long!!

• beach days

  The kids are at such a fun age for little afternoon beach trips. We love to hang at the beach for a while with our sand toys and then go out to a casual dinner together.

• river trips

  We are hoping to make a lot of these this summer! The river is one of our favorite places to be. We disconnect for a few days and just enjoy being outside and in the water. We wakeboard, paddle board, play corn hole, can jam, honestly you name it. Basically games all weekend long!

• ice cream and old town

  Some times we don’t feel like packing a big bag or doing anything that takes prep, but still want to do something. That’s when we will head to old town and get some ice cream together. Especially on a hot evening!

• lots of time in the backyard

  Our patio cover/deck is set to start on May 1st! I cannot wait to have that done by hopefully end of June. I need to go to Target and get one of those plastic pools. We had one last summer and used it SO much. So easy to cool off and the kids love it.

• swimming at the grandparents house

  Andrew’s parents live about 25 minutes from us, so we swim at their house a lot! Now that the girls can swim we are planning on going over there at least once a week!

• legoland & safari park

  We make a lot of trips to the safari park but I’d love to go to Legoland again!

• family bike rides

  Another FREE and fun thing we like to do with our family. We put Owen in the towing seat that attaches to Andrew’s bike. We usually will bike to a park and let the kids play for a while.

I hope you all have the BEST summer! Make sure to check out all the fun outdoor toys at Target!

Friday Recap

Phew! What a week we had over here. It was full of so many highs and lows. We had so much lead up to Andrew’s brothers wedding. It had been postponed a year and we were all ready for it to be here! Also we all were in the wedding including the kids so I was a little stressed the week prior. The actual wedding was so amazing. We danced all night long and really had the greatest time. But then the day after the wedding we heard from our beloved nanny of almost a year, that she had to move on to a new opportunity. I never share much about her, out of respect for her privacy, but she really has been such a huge part of our lives this past year. She came into our home shortly after Owen turned 1 and the girls were 3. Our life seemed all out of sorts at the time. I was behind with work projects, not the most patient or present mom and just felt like I was drowning. I knew I had to give up some control and not do it all on my own, because clearly it wasn’t working.

She came into our home like a real life Mary Poppins. She loved our kids like they were her own and helped me to BREATH. Heck she inspired me to be a better mom with how great the house would look when she’d leave at the kids nap time! I was trying to figure out why I was so so sad when I heard the news from her, because I knew this day would come eventually and I’ve realized why it is. At the time she came into our lives I felt so frazzled and behind on everything, like I couldn’t keep up. And so hearing that she was leaving made me fear that I’ll go back to that place again. But I know now that we are all better than we were back then.

I say all of this because I’m the one to never ask for help. I always try to do it all on my own, but let me tell you, asking for a little help clearly can go a long way. People are brought into our lives for a reason and purpose. God put her here to help me when I needed it most and we will always hold a special place in our hearts for Miss L.

Below I put this weeks videos along with top links of the week! Have a wonderful weekend friends!

Friday Links!

Good morning! Sharing my top links of the week. It was a big week! The girls had their last day of preschool, went on stage for their school performance and made me the most proud mama! I also took them to get their nails done for the first time and they cannot stop looking at their sparkly little nails. And we had our new patio cement poured! This morning was the first day we could use it and it’s been so nice to be outside again. Next step will be to lay the grass down so that’ll be amazing. I hope you all had a great week and enjoy your long weekend!

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