Summertime Check In

In June, I posted about our summertime plans, with a cute little bucket list. I am here today to kind of recap our summer and see how we did! It was a FULL summer- we really didn’t do any traveling or vacations. The only time we even went out of town was for our family reunion and a wedding

• Go to the beach  Done! We went several times over the summer, although not as often as we had planned!

• Go to the splash pad We did this twice and I think it’s official: my kids have aged out of splash pads. We also ended up going to a local pool/waterpark and that was a blast!!

• Go mini golfing  Yes, we did this! And we enjoyed it with Memaw and Pepaw, too.

• Go get ice cream  We did this on the very first day of summer, and did it a few more times throughout the summer as well!

• Go to the Sugarcreek Bird Farm  This was my first time there and it was a total BLAST! We will be back for sure!

• Family Jump Rope Routine. Nope. Tera did a fun jump rope camp but the rest of us barely even looked at our jump ropes!
• Go camping  Theo and the kids went camping and loved it!!!
• Hines Family Reunion  Yes, we did this! And had a blast!

• Go tubing Womp womp. We were all set to go tubing and then realized that they had raised the price to $60 per person, so it was way out of budget for our family. Instead we went to the water park.
• Get a new animal  15 guinea fowl and three rabbits!

• Library Summer Reading Program The kids and I all finished the summer reading program and got a t-shirt from it!

• Make a farm stand. Didn’t do this. I have enough egg orders in my personal life that I don’t need to sell to random people driving past. I have basically no garden produce and my sunflower field was a total disappoint this year. One year I would still like to have a farm stand, but this year was not that year!
• Have a playdate  We did end up having a couple of playdates!
• Go to the fair We spent one hot afternoon at the fair!
• Read the Chronicles of Narnia series Sort of…we have been faithfully reading it all summer, but we still have 2.5 books to go!
• Go to Kings Island. yeah, that also did not fit in our family budget. One year we will go, but we decided that this summer was not the right time for it!
• Memorize a Scripture passage . This is the only disappointment of the summer for me. We really didn’t end up with a consistent dinner/devotions routine and the Scripture memorization for sure slid off the radar. I would really like to do better at this!
• Go to a parade Yes, we went to two!

Additionally, we did quite a few things that hadn’t been on my list when I first made it:

• Re-roof one of our rentals
• I got back into running

• Tera turned 9!

• We visited a Lavander farm

• The boys and I did a garden tour

• We went to the Hot Air Balloon Festival

• We went to a blueberry festival…in the POURING rain lol

• We butchered and processed two pigs

• Theo was best man in a wedding

• Ezra had surgery

• Tera did a jump rope camp and Kiah did a basketball camp

• We bought and put up some built in bookshelves for my book collection (and Kiah’s lego collection haha)

And that is a wrap on summer! We are back to school this week and while I wasn’t quite ready, I am also ready, if that makes any sense. It really was a sweet summertime after all!