Filling Our Summer Days

I have a love/hate relationship with summer.  Long days to fill, but they includes NO homework or practicing of any sort.   Here is how we have been filling our days:

Getting lots of snow cones with friends.

We've been having "Best Worker" contests at our house.  For example, we were doing yard work one hot morning.  Everyone was getting a snow cone for helping, but the BEST WORKER was getting a medium size snow cone instead of the small.  Man ALIVE that sparked some fire into my kids.  Abby was the winner.  Annie was the winner of cleaning up the kitchen after dinner.  Georgia was the winner of cleaning up the play room.  Carter is still working on it!

Annie went boating with some friends (she is in the middle).  She declared that we needed to get a boat!

Carter displaying our new garden sign.

These strawberries lasted 10 seconds.

My FAVORITE (seriously) summer activity - shelling peas in the garage.  It makes for some forced talking time.  I love it!

We decided to try our hand at growing potatoes this summer.  Yeah - they are growing!

5 gallon bucket 3/4th of the way full.  Plus a few cucumbers!

Staring contest

Donuts for breakfast occasionally

Sewing camp for the big girls!

Playing in Bridal Veil Falls

My favorite - RUNNING CAMP!  We have really improved since last year - yahoo!

The kids helped tie a quilt and everyone was happy about it!

We've gone through lots of sidewalk chalk.

Hanging with family at the park!