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We officially finished our Summer Fun List last Saturday, and not too soon. The kids start school tomorrow!! There's a few photos so, I'm just going to throw the rest of our summer fun list into one post. :0)
We had cousins come into town, so we went to Exploration place with them and cousins who live here too!
Then we had our annual Outdoor Movie Night at my mom & dad's. My sister Kathleen & I got all kinds of snacks & popcorn, then we set up the projector and watched Big Hero 6!
My niece Rachel had a princess tea party that Lily went to. She had a ton of fun!!
While she was there, the boys and their cousin Johnny played Laser Quest!
We checked Glow Golf off of our list a few weeks ago too!
Lily finished he Summer Skills Workbook!! She was very proud of herself!
We bowled a lot using Kids Bowl Free. Just sign up and the kids can bowl 2 games once per week. The only cost is the shoe rental, but that's only $2.00 each!
The kids enjoyed egg shell painting again this summer. mainly because they get to throw the eggs....
Jeff found several Geo Cache's for the kids to do. They love following the GPS to find the "prizes" and leaving new prizes.
We also went to the zoo a few times. The kids always enjoy that!
I still have to post about our Mini Vacation, but that deserves it's own post.
We have had a fun filled summer, and now we're (or at least I'm) ready for a fun filled school year!!
A few years ago, the library did a fun life size Candy Land game. I remember the kids had so much fun, so I thought I would recreate it with my kids and their cousins. I made all the pieces big and then set them up in my sister Mary's basement.
Sorry these pictures are not in the order of the game. I just took them as I was going, and I'm too lazy to try to put them in the right order. :0)
So, this is Queen Frostine's Ice Cream Sea:
Candy Castle, where you win the game!!
Lollipop Forrest:
Lord Licorice's Castle:
The Molasses Swamp:
Peppermint Forrest:
Gumdrop Tree:
Grandma Nut's House:
Gumdrop Lane:
The whole board:
We had to split the kids up because there were too many! Here are the little kids going first:
Then the older kids:
It was a lot of fun!!!
This summer, I decided to copy my sister Dianna's idea a little bit. She has put on Olympics before which were SUPER fun! But SO much work! So I went the lazy route and just did races. The winner of each raced got a candy medal. :0) Which I forgot to take pictures of, but they were just square(ish) shaped candies (Reese's peanut butter cups, York patties, M&M packs, etc.) taped to yarn to go around their necks. We had lots of kids, so I thought to keep it fair, we would do the races in age groups. The three year olds, the 8 year olds, the 10 year olds, and the 12 year olds. (Sometimes the 10 & 12 year olds were together.)
The first race was eating a donut off of a string, using no hands.
**The poor three year olds were getting so frustrated, so we let them use their hands. :0)
(There are two kids not usually seen in my blog. They are Parker, the little boy my niece Rachel babysits, and Allie, her friends little girl.)
So funny. :0)
Next up was the potato sack races. These were so funny to watch! LOL!
We did an egg race next, but we used plastic spoons and plastic eggs. ;0)
The crab walk was hard for some of them and super easy for others:
Mr. David didn't participate in any races, but walked around being cute.
The turtle race was hard for everyone, but hilarious to watch!
Next was the shoe race, where they had to throw their shoes out, go to the end of the yard, race to get them, put them on, then race to me. We didn't have the 3 year olds do this, we thought they might get too frustrated.
Our next race was running to the pile of clothes and getting 3 articles of clothing on (correctly) first.
Taking a break from the heat, we went inside and had two more races. Blowing a cup across the table:
And picking up skittles with a straw and putting them in a cup. The three year olds were not getting this, so we just let them pick them up with their fingers and they all won. ;0)
The last fun event was done by Rachel. She did a pie eating contest! The kids loved getting their faces into pie!
So funny!
Everyone enjoyed the races and everybody won at least once!
