Summer Bucket List

Our little Lydia is due right at the beginning of the school year, making this our last summer as the three of us. Part of me has all these dreams of grandeur...imagining us making the most of the summer days and doing all these fun things outside. And then I think, "Eight and Nine months pregnant. 100+ temps. Ummm...no thanks."

So, instead I've come up with a few other options (yes, some are still outside) that mostly involve AC and/or cold foods and beverages. Of course, Matt and I both have a LONG list of things we need to accomplish this summer, but this is mainly family fun goodness.

Here are a few of the fun things we have in mind:

1. Go to the beach (scheduled for late July with all the Hoogs).

CanNOT wait to be with these people again and the rest of the family!

2. Play in the pool (already happening and will probably continue happening just about every single day).


3. Hang out in the hammock (once the sun starts to set it's actually really nice).

This picture (and that face) just kills me.

4. Make homemade popsicles (got a board on Pinterest already going).

5. Go to the Zoo and the splash pad section (this will probably be more Matt and Josiah while Mommy stays inside).

6. Children's Museum (Thursday nights are free).

7. Christmas in July (on the 25th...gonna have to figure out how to make it feel cold in our house).

 

8.Get some snocones (the kind with ice cream in the middle).


9. Popsicles and splash pad at Discovery Green (continuing a tradition started last year).

10. Vacation Bible School at our church (he's finally old enough to go!).


11. Stand in the freezer sections of grocery stores (you think I'm kidding).

12. Get the nursery at least cleaned out and started (she won't even sleep in there for the first couple months so I'm not really in a huge hurry to get it done). (Also...is it weird that my inspiration for her room is a bottle of hand soap?)

What are your plans to beat the summer heat and make some fun memories?