After our vacation, Dad was already back to work and his actual classes started at the beginning of August. Then to top that off, the boy's school started a week earlier than usual. It all seems ridiculous to me and I wish we could get back to a summer vacation that starts at Memorial Day and ends at Labor Day. The last few days slipped away pretty fast. We all felt like we didn't get nearly enough done, but we did have fun. I made these jars of fun activity ideas for when the kids were bored but I guess we didn't have too much time being bored because we barely made a dent in the jar....
Here is one example of something from the jar:
Freeze toys in ice block and break them out with hammers..
We made an ambitious Summer To-Do List and even though I warned the kids we wouldn't do everything on it, the kids still felt like we needed to hurry up and get as much done as we could.
We had a giant Playmobil castle set-up day with Baabee that took over our living room.
The boys set up quite a battle and made up a game with rubber bands to take turns shooting each other's guys down.
Jimmy won tickets to a Diamondback's game, but we ended up giving them to cousins since it was over our vacation.
One of my uncles helped to remedy that situation by giving us some of his tickets.
It was the mascot Baxter's birthday so all the Arizona mascots were there and the kids all got free backpacks. Those things alone would have been enough to make the kids happy, but it also helped that is was a good game and the D-Backs won!!!
Summer treat spots usually include Culvers, Zoyo, and Chik-fil-A, but I also can't resist the price of the cones at McDonalds.
I took Nora one day when the boys got to go to a movie without her. She is pretty cute...
Swim lessons with friends are always on our summer list...
One of the highlights is getting to go down the water slide on the last day...
Nora was even brave enough to go down with her teacher...
Nora loved her teacher Erin...
And the popsicles are always a highlights as well...
We celebrated Mom's birthday at Mimi's house...
Summer days at Mimi's house are always the best...
We also had a great surprise party for Mimi's 65th birthday...
Johnny planned the whole thing and bought presents "from" each kid. The presents were, of course, really for each kid to keep. Mimi might have been tempted to keep the Legos though...
This picture is evidence that Nora is just like me as a child...
The kids all had fun swimming in Mimi's pool...
And then enjoying their presents...
We had lots of fun having Erin and Helen in town for a visit. Nora is a big fan...
Nora just loves her girl cousins...
We used our last days of summer to spend time with cousins and stay wet...
I am always ready for the heat to end, but not to go back to school.
Even a hot Arizona summer is a fun summer to me!
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