m.i.a. --- school's out --- summer's here ---

Missing in action...that's been me!  I can't believe I haven't posted anything in almost 2 weeks!  We've been busy wrapping up the school year and beginning our summer.  School got out for us the Friday before Memorial Day.  So...that last week of school was jammed packed with fun things happening at the school.  It also was the start of football season in our neck of the woods!  Yes...football season!  Lucky for us our family LOVES football, so passing out pads and helmets and having football tryouts the last week of May sounded like a great idea to us!  :)  This week the boys are in football camp each morning!

We're into our second week of summer now and we've been having a great time.  Somewhere I read about a blogger who is having an Intentional Summer.  I'll have to go back and find the posts that I read, so that I can link it.  When I read the bloggers posts I thought it sounded like a great idea.  How many summers (or ANY breaks from school...) do we have a mental list of all the fun things that we want to do, only to the week before school starts to realize we've accomplished nothing on our mental list.  This is what I want and plan to avoid!

I asked my boys some of the things that they really wanted to do this summer.  The requests ranged from having a lemonade stand to going hiking up in the mountains.  All were fairly inexpensive outings that will make some wonderful memories.

So...we're having an Intentional Summer this year.  I'll find the blog/post so that I can link it, and I'll share with you what we've been doing so far!