Have you had your daily laugh?!

It's been a hard year.  Peter has been in Grad school, and is gone a lot.  And life has just been very busy here without him.  It is really hard to be home with small children all day. The other day I was feeling a little discouraged, because it had been a long night followed by a long day with some grumpy kids.  So during naptime I visted two of my pinterest boards.  I have a "Cool Words" board  with lots of quotes and inspiration.  I found several quotes that gave me a boost so I just printed them out and tacked them to the wall around my apartment.

Today I was bored and the laundry and dishes were piled high and I just needed a 10 minute break from the housework.  So I visited my "Random" board, which is just a bunch of random thing that didn't really fit a category when I pinned them and jokes (mostly innapropriate ones) I HAD THE BEST LAUGH EVER!!  I highly reccommend that you take 10 minutes to check out all the funy things you pin on the internet.  Even though it's been kind of a tough day I really had a good laugh :)

Summer Bucket List

Isn't this picture cute?  I found it here.  I think I will do this for Violet when school gets out.  I can't believe her last year of Preschool is ending in just over a month!  Even more unbelievable is that she will be a kindergartner next year....when did she grow up?

When I was a kid I remember summer being so much fun!  We went on trips, we played a ton of sports, and I think I spent about 18 hours a day outside riding bikes and playing kick the can. As a parent of two small children, summertime seems like the Parenting Olympics! My girls are so busy and they love to always be going somewhere and doing something and there is nothing more frustrating that spending the afternoon indoors! I have been collecting ideas on my pinterest kid activities, to prepare.  So I decided to make a Summer bucket list for the girls.  It's going to be busy and fun and hopefully it will help me retain my sanity over the summer. There is so much to do around town here in Olympia, I love it here.  So here is my list!  Let me know if you have any suggestions or if you want to join us for any of our activities.

1. Public Art Walking Tour

2. Pick a new park and go play!

3. Tumwater 4th of July Parade

4.Lacey Spring Fun Fair

5. Lattins Cider Mill

6. Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium

7. LOTT water treatment WET center

8.  Hands on Childrens Museum

9.  NW Trek We have a pass with 3 visitor passes per visit, if anyone wants to join us!

10. The Reptile Man

11. Wolf Haven

12. Farmers Market

13. Library Summer activities- they haven't put the schedule up yet

14. Library reading challenge

15. Soccer

16. Swimming- we have an indoor pool and we can bring 2 people with us

17. Lacey Parks and Rec Children's entertainment series in the park

18. Indoor Camping

19. Lets take a walk scavenger hunt

20. Homemade baggie ice cream

21.Water fight, water balloons, spongeballs, splash pool, water pinataand sprinklers

22. Giant Water Blob

23. Balloon Ninjas

24. Hallway laser gridwith tape

25. Wash the car

26. Have a picnic

27. Bowling

28. Go to the beach

29. Downtown fountain

30. Chuck E Cheese

31. Fly Kites

32. Olympic Flight Museum

33. Farmers Market

34. Tour a fire station

35. Plant some flowers and help in Grandpa's veggie garden

36. Go for a Hike

37. Side walk Chalk

 38. Putt Putt Golf

39. Home Depot kid workshops- 1st Saturday of each month 9am-12

40. Cabelas Kids story time- First Saturday of the month 10:30-11 in the hunt/camp tent, camping department

41. Jumpin Jacks

42.Lake Fair parade and fireworks

43. Olympia Pet Parade

44.Sand in the City

45. Harbor Days

Have a fun summer!!  I'll post some pictures of our activities over the summer!