summer essentials!

so at our house, we create what we call a "summer to do" list. this list consists of things that just make summer, well, summer:) for example, going mini golfing, getting ice cream at the union terrace, camping....ect. the list is quite long and we have managed to get through most of it...and sometimes we can cross multiple things off on one day....now, that's a GOOD day!!! 

on one friday morning, while our friend oliver was visiting (he was with us for an entire week....he lives in seattle!!), we all woke up, had breakfast, tie dyed about 7 shirts, made cookies, made lemonade, and set up the annual lemonade stand by 10am:) whew! (that took 3 things off our summer list).

the kids had so much fun. they all had a specific duty (oliver handed out cookies, quinny handed out lemonade, and ryder handled the money). i loved watching all three of them....oh, they would giggle, nudge, whisper...and giggle more!