Summer bucketlist | u-pick strawberries

Every year after school is officially out and summer break has begun

one of our first bucket list items is to go pick strawberries!! The weather

has already been amazing here so the season was on its last few days when we went.

That is fine for us because we just take all the cousins for the experience.

 

Since the last day for u-pick we were free to go anywhere we wanted.

We set the kids loose to pick.

 

Afterwards we enjoyed lunch at the little playground there.

I love this yearly tradition!

 



Easter Weekend

I am so far behind in my blogging about family life that I am not even going

to attempt to catch up. The thought of trying to do that totally stresses me out.

I am just going to start up here with Easter!

 

What works for our family to share the holidays between

my family and Josh's is to go every other holiday. One family

gets Easter the other Thanksgiving and then whoever

had Thanksgiving gets Christmas Eve and the other family gets us Christmas day

The next year we do the opposite. Whoever had Easter gets Thanksgiving ect.

 

One thing we so every Easter no matter what is an annual cousin Easter egg

hunt with my family. This year we did on Saturday along with a picnic lunch.

The sun even made an appearance. It was so warm when it was out but the

minute it was behind the clouds brrrr... Everyone was grabbing for sweatshirts.

 

We ate a lunch then set the kids free to grab as many eggs as they could.

It was really a hunt as they were just all thrown in the grass. We

met at the "little park" that is located by us all. 

Before everyone else arrived my sister asked me to get a few

 pics of my adorable nephews. She even made them little bow ties.

Before the kids were allowed to hunt we required them to

take their annual cousin pic! I love these pics.

It is amazing how much they grow year to year.

 

 



 

 

Sunday we went to church and then headed to Josh's parents house.

We had  great time visiting, eating and lots of laughs.

Jordan has taken quite a liking to Grampa and the two were inseparable.

They took there dog Lou on a walk and then after lunch they went to the beach.

His dad mentioned that after walking a bit Jordan wanted to sit on a bench.

He asked him what they should do and he said just talk.

Jordan is such a time guy. He loves to just spend time with you

whether it being going on a walk or snuggling up with a movie.

Which they did when they got back. They watched Smurfs 2.

 



Elf on the Shelf {part 2}

Day 11

Sunshine just hanging around

Day 12

Sunshine saved us all and killed the spider that had been running around earlier

Day 13

 Jordan received a gift from Sunshine at a Christmas party

Day 14

 Sunshine left silly notes for the kids before school

Day 15

Just hanging around with the ornaments

Day 16

Sunshine went zip lining across the house

Day 17

Peek a boo I see you

Day 18

Stayed up all night playing DS

Day 19

He left some fun snow day activities!

Day 20

Sunshine hiding in the silverware drawer

Day 21

Sunshine started working on the puzzle for us.

Day 22

Sunshine brought a few gifts back with him

Day 23

I didn't get a picture but Sunshine left a letter for the kids

before heading off to the north pole for good.

We started a few days into the month so that is why we only did 23 days!