The Summertime List. Big success! We loved the list. We started out with 81 things, but each kid also came up with their own list, so we ended up doing dozens of things. "Mom, we have to get snow cones. It's on my list!" "Mom, when are we going to go to City Creek? It's on my list!" "Mom, can you drive me to the temple? It's on my list." Any request that was "on the list" was immediately met with a big "Yes!" I'm a list person, and I can't stand the thought of an empty box, just longing for a check mark. Some of the things on the list never would have happened if they hadn't been typed and numbered on the cute sheet Jennie made. There wasn't one thing on the list that we regretted doing. It's fun to go back and take another look at our adventures. It was the best summer of all time. Was it because of the list? I don't know, but we're definitely making another list next summer, and it's probably going to be twice as long! The Grand Canyon is already #1 for Summer 2013. And here's Summer 2012...
1. Pineview
2. Cousin Party
3. 10 Hour Project - finished three between the girls.
4. Make Play-Doh. Wait, those are cookies. Yeah, we did that too.
5. Great Salt Lake - Freestone covered this for us with the scouts
6. Backyard Camp Out
7. Southern Utah
8. Write thank you letters. Good exercise for the kids, but Golda wrote ten times as many as anyone else to thank everyone for the Rose Parade support.
9. Cherry Hill - Golda and her friends had to cover this for us. Lost the pictures!
10. Learn to make Tiffany's bread.
11. Pancake Party
12. Lagoon
13. Have a BBQ
14. Zoo
15. Outdoor Concert (Keane)
16. Have a recital (Ruby's Book 4) combined with 17. Benefit flute concert
18. Make a video of summertime fun. I was hoping that not knowing how wouldn't deter me, but it did. So I made a video of Tizzy learning to crawl instead.
19. Paint Canvasses White
20. Kingston to see where ancestors lived
21. The Ranch
22. Sell something on KSL
23. Go camping.
24. Go on a hike. Adams Canyon, Zion's Narrows, Deer Valley...we hiked all over the place!
25. Watch TV and Play Video Games
26. Sewing Project (Clothing for Trek)
27. Paint the Garage! I channeled Tom Sawyer on this one.
28. Paint Free and Tolly's new room. Painted the cafe instead.
29. The Lot
30. Decorate Xanthe's new room - she and Ari shared a room for the summer.
31. Star Party...lying in the road at the Lot looking at the Milky Way
32. Join a Board or Guild (Utah Symphony Youth Guild)
33. Volunteer. One thing that was big: DHS band festival committee. Meetings every week.
34. 30 days in a row practice chart...the month of June
35. Potty train Ptolemy...results pending, pictures too cute to post.
36. Splash Pad
37. Watch a Movie
38. Kaysville Theater. And how!
39. Library - maybe once. Oops.
40. Explore the trails.
41. Go to the gym
42. Run a Mile
43. Play in the clubhouse. No moms allowed taking pictures!
44. Make a new friend. Several!
45. Go to a parade...Golda was in 4 of them.
46. Sidewalk chalk. Draw with it? How pedestrian. We like to run over it with the van and then smear it all over our bodies.
47. Try a new recipe
48. Road Trip!
49. Clean Out a Closet
50. The Pool
51. Visit Nana
52. Plant Nana's Flowerbed
53. Have a Late Over...too many to count
54. Invite someone for dinner
55. Take dinner to a neighbor
56. Give a gift
57. Ptolemy's birthday party
58. Freestone's Birthday Party
59. Golda's birthday party
60. Trek
61. Beehive camp
62. New York
63. See a play
64. We didn't do French braids for a week like the list said. But we did nails. Even Freestone!
65. Go to a museum
66. Do Nothing
67. Band Practice...3 days a week, 7 am.
68. Host a shower
69. Go to Wyoming
70. Eat Cookie Dough. Easy one!
71. Ballet Recital
72. Get Gelato
73. Art Day
74. Fix up boys' new room. Not so much. Boys don't want a new room.
75. Make new nursery cute. Tziporah is now in the cafe.
76. Make Ice Cream in a Ziploc Bag
77. Make Lemonade
78. Sit in the shade (Central Park)
79. Sell Coco's Kittens
80. S'mores at Ryan and Jennie's. Thanks!
and 81. Go to a Baseball Game
30. Decorate Xanthe's new room - she and Ari shared a room for the summer.
33. Volunteer. One thing that was big: DHS band festival committee. Meetings every week.
34. 30 days in a row practice chart...the month of June
35. Potty train Ptolemy...results pending, pictures too cute to post.
38. Kaysville Theater. And how!
39. Library - maybe once. Oops.
41. Go to the gym
43. Play in the clubhouse. No moms allowed taking pictures!
53. Have a Late Over...too many to count
55. Take dinner to a neighbor
56. Give a gift
61. Beehive camp
74. Fix up boys' new room. Not so much. Boys don't want a new room.
80. S'mores at Ryan and Jennie's. Thanks!
4 comments:
HOLY COW!! You did a ton of fun stuff! Great idea- love the re-cap!
Wow! Amazing you accomplished all 81 items. Looks like a fun summer though:)
Wow!..when you see it in pictures, you realize all the fun, fun things you did and places you saw!..Put Miami on that list for 2013!..Road trip!..can visit Nauvoo and Zjelko on the way!...and all the great places in between, where you went to School, and I think there is a chocolate factory in there too!...What a wonderful summer!..and such memories you made!...Enjoyed seeing it all!..I want to do a rapids run again!..What to do it with me? and bring Alex and Lincoln...Jackson Hole maybe?XO Tricia
Wow!! What an awesome, amazing, wonderful summer!! Glad you had such a great time!
A wonderful look back at so many family memories created!
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