For the first time we sat down and created a family Summer Bucket List! We sat and wrote down all the things we wanted to do this summer. Some are really simple...some are bigger ideas we had...but we are excited! IWe pinned it up on the fridge and we get to check off each thing as we do them. I LOVE lists...and I LOVE checking things off lists, so this is just fun!!! Here is our Summer Bucket List (in no paticular order).... we actually keep adding things...so this is subject to change of course!!
Eastern Washington Trip
Moms/Daughter Mexican Lunch and Margaritas(Maddie is inviting 3 of her best friends and moms over to do this on a sunny day in the backyard)
A few new Science Experiments (out of Maddie's new book)
A Ferry Ride
San Diego Trip
Ice Cream at the Beach (Check)
Bake a new cake, cupcakes, or cake pops
Nailpolish Art
Regular Library Trips (storytime for Bella)
Homemade Play Dough
Make Smores
See Harry Potter
Bake a new cookies
Pacific Science Center
Homemade Popsicles
Sidewalk Chalk
Movie in the Park
Family Game Night
Run in the Sprinklers (Check)
Pikes Place
Trophy Cupcakes at U Village
Take Walks
New Bike for Maddie
Tot Lot in Fircrest
Swim Lessons
Roach Gymnastics for Bella
Orting Trail
Find a new Park/Playground
Homemade Bubbles
Chocolate Factory
Looking forward to a busy and fun summer!!!
The first couple of layers.....
Maddie putting the last layer of blue on
The got really really huge after they baked...we filled the cup up way too full!!
The finished product....
One of my favorite all time books to read to my students is Roxaboxen! It is about these kids that create this whole imaginary city....using stones, broken glass, sticks...anything they can find! Love this book! Maddie totally reminded me of this book yesterday when she and her neighbor friends built a fort outside the house......
This is the side of their fort.....they used logs and stones for the perimeter...they covered the inside with dry grass, and they found big long sticks to create the actually fort structure.
This is the front of their fort...I love the little pathway made of stones and the two tall "trees" on either side of their entrance....
Even Bella got to go inside their special fort! 
Bella is getting her foot measured...she thought it was cool!
She REALLY liked the balloon and the fish tank at Nordstrom though...
Bouncing the balloon up and down...up and down....over and over
So excited with her choice of shoes...she was giving me her "cheesy" smile
Big sissy picked these ones out.....
Bella's new Pumas.... they look so huge here!
Happy Father's Day to both my husband and my own father! I am so blessed to have both men in our lives and they are both so full of love...we love them so much! 
