"Hotlanta"

We went to visit Raine and Lauren earlier this summer and had a great time. Here are several of our fun memories. It was very, very hot there - as it is here.

First: Imagine That Children's Museum of Atlanta Next: Museum of Natural History - Fernbank Museum (This is where everyone thought I wanted to go when I was trying to get us to Imagine That. Once we got there, I told Chase that I didn't think we had gone to the right place. But we had fun and then we headed to Imagine That.) Next: Aquarium

(this is Uncle Raine for those who may not know)

Now, I am way - way behind on posting from this summer! We have accomplished almost all of our summer list. I will try to update soon, but here's what we have done so far...

Aquarium

Children's museum

go to parks

slip and slide

beach

feed birds

Micheal Buble' concert

"picnic"

collect seashells

watch sunset

pick and eat blueberries

paint pottery at seaside

art camp

tumbling camp

make a necklace and bracelet

***Savannah has decided that we will not camp this year - "maybe when she's older" she says.

More Summer Fun...

Sunday was fun. First we made homemade lemonade. It was better than I imagined! I'm not much for lemonade, but I enjoyed this batch so much. However, with lemons at $0.42 each, we will not make this too much of a tradition. I wonder if we could grow a lemon tree here.

Once our lemonade passed the taste test, we packed a couple of lemonade filled sippy cups and went swimming at Mrs. Taylor's pool and tried out Savannah's new Puddle Jumper. We will definitely be getting another one for Crews as well. Savannah jumped off the diving board so many times that I lost count. Every time she would say, "don't let my head go under, okay?"

I did not take our camera to the pool, but I wish I had. Here are a few pictures of Savannah and Crews riding their scooters. They have enjoyed those things, inside the house and out!

make homemade lemonade

swimming

ride bikes and scooters

eat home grown bellpepper/tomatoes

There will be many repeats of these activities, it's just nice to live this summer with "intention" - as the McMaths would say. ;)

Saturday Fun

We started our summer list today. First we made sidewalk paint with cornstarch, water, and food coloring. It turned out well. But, wait...I hear a "rellacopter!" They realized that it was more fun to pour the paint out and spread it around than the usual method of painting. Here's the finished product.... Then we admired our tomatoes... and bellpeppers.... Then we started to tie dye. There was a huge down pouring of rain, so we had to move our efforts to the carport. I soon realized that maybe the tie dying is not age appropriate for a 4 year old. We both have permanent dye on our hands and legs. It will be worth it when Savi and Crews can wear our creations....

make sidewalk paint

tie dye

Next up, home made lemonade!

Summer 2010

I was inspired by this list from last year, so Savi and I sat down a couple of weeks ago and made our list. You can see our results at the right. I am not sure that they are all season appropriate, however we put everything on the list that we could possibly want to do. Chase thinks our list sounds nice but "expensive." I am going to try to Dave Ramsey this summer as much as possible while hopefully facilitating some really great memories for Savannah and Crews. If you have not seen Whatever's site, you will most likely be sucked in and addicted. If you are like me and attracted visually to blogs by beautiful photography, you'll want to "plunder" in this one a while. My 3 favorite sites are all photographers/mothers. FlyLady update: I have to admit I have taken a break in the last 2 weeks, and I can really tell a difference. I have not left off my weekly home blessings though. :) ***Does anyone know how to make paragraph breaks in blogger? I can't get it to work so I'm just using random photos currently.

FLY lady

If you have not come across the FLY lady yet, please go by and check it out. My house, complete with two toddlers and busy-busy things had become what she refers to as CHAOS..."can't have anyone over syndrome." :) Well, not anymore...I have started doing her babysteps and routines and it really works. I had realized last year that my sink and counters are the areas in my house that can make me feel stressed if they are cluttered. So the first babystep was great! I have kept the sink shining! What a stress relief it is to look at the sink dish free and clean. Maybe I will post my shiny sink picture this week.