Twelve years ago, right about now, I was home from college, probably cruising I-69 in my teal Ford Escort wagon, on my way to Courtland Center to blow some babysitting money at American Eagle, the back-up store for girls who drove station wagons and couldn’t afford Abercrombie. I’m sure I was irresponsibly french-braiding my hair in the rear view mirror while I drove, steering with my knee and listening to this song, perhaps the greatest summer anthem ever. If white boys could rap, then certainly a twenty-year-old jamming out in a station wagon with a duct-taped fender could be cool. To this day, that song makes me feel about twenty years old. And pumped for summer.
And who knew boogaloo shrimp and pogo sticks could dwell so harmoniously together in lyrics?
You know those flea markets you hear of where fabulous eccentric people gather early in the morning scouring booths for vintage treasures and actually find them? The ones stocked with cool vendors selling fresh-cut flowers, Polish pastries, first edition books with worn pages and hand-made art?
Yeah, that’s not ours.
Our local flea market isn’t so much a congregation of artists selling unique crafts but more a random collection of booths featuring knock-off sunglasses; tapestries of dogs playing poker or Jesus shaking hands with Elvis; 10-year-old Avon makeup stored in its original packaging, the cakey aged powder disguised with neon stickers that say “$2, never used.” However, among the turquoise bolo ties and $5 Wolex watches, there are great things about our flea market. Like its catchy TV commercial that has me singing “Flamingo Island, Gonna get you smilin'” all damn day. Or the hot mini donuts rolled in cinnamon sugar that you can pick up from the carnival stand at the front entrance on Saturday morning. Or the fact that sometimes, if you look hard enough, you can actually find cool stuff.
This week, accompanied by my girls, I set out early Saturday morning to the flea market and came home a couple hours later with a rhinestone bedazzled initial bracelet for Lainey, a pair of Minnetonkas to match my girl’s for me and this totally badass vintage knitting bag which I’ll use as a purse come fall.
Turns out, our flea market isn’t so bad after all.
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The brides of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers had high expectations for this month. According to those petticoat wearing pretty girls, if you marry in June, you’re a bride all your life. Since falling in love with that movie back when I was a musical-obsessed kid (and forbidden to watch anything outside the wholesome realm of Shirley Temple, Jimmy Stewart and Disney movies featuring Kurt Russel as a child), I have utmost respect for this mid-year month, and I vow never to let June down.
June is a great month for pigtails.
…and Sundays at our favorite place.
Note to Rebecca: Facebook profile pic?
See, I wasn’t kidding about the synchronized swimming.
The grandest get-togethers we’ve ever pulled off are always spontaneous. A few “Isle of Capri tomorrow, hope you can come” texts fired off late Saturday night and the satisfaction the next morning with an applaudable response. Not that we don’t love quieter beach Sundays when the footprints of just our family imprint the sand, but there is truth to “the more, the merrier,” especially when more refers to pint-sized friends.
The kids earned their spa therapist licenses after practicing their mud bath massage techniques all at once on our friend, Andrea, who happens to be a really great sport.
Low tide makes for an enchanting beach that yes, involves mud, but also a vast collection of reflective pools, each its own miniature lagoon yielding hiding spots for unusual sea creatures and a playground for both bigs and littles.
Jellyfish, no sting.
Itty bitty crab.
Nella’s super soft t-shirt, Tea Collection.
And here’s where I insert the obligatory blog explanation that this kayak was floating on 4 inches of water about a foot away from the beach. No lifejackets, no danger.
Brett’s not crazy about the new dock because he says it blocks a clear view of the bay, but I am loving the change of scene, a new point of interest for photos and another place for adventures.
It’s all good.
And my Junebugs are happy.
My favorite pics from the day?
This little girl walked the beach with Lainey and was being so sweet to my girls. I asked her if I could take a picture of her hair beads because they were so pretty.
Oh, and I can almost say I swam with dolphins. One glided up next to our kayak while we were out in the deep, looped closely underneath it, and playfully swam back toward us. I was so excited, without even thinking, I jumped ship, treading water, gripping my life vest and calling for my friend to come back, like it was the family dog. I felt something smooth glide under my foot and, while I have no idea if it was a dophin, a fish or a clump of sea weed, I’m going with dolphin because this story isn’t very good without that spectacular conclusion.
So there. A taste of our weekend. Now if only I still had my station wagon, I could pick up some Slurpees and drive into the sunset on this fine Monday. Rolling down my windows (manually, of course), letting my hair blow in the salty sea breeze and singing along to LFO.
I think it’s fly when girls stop by for the summer…for the summer.
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In the meantime, have a great week!
WOW, first comment! love you new header!!
Nella has PIGGIE TAILS!!! That’s a milestone in my book!!! GO NELLA!!!
Sunnie in NC
My three things for this summer:
1. Say yes to the girls at random (especially when I want to say no)
2. Visit Kings Dominion at least twice
3. Cut my hair
adorable photos! and I so much want to visit this place!
tara
We kicked the summer off with my 1st trip to Hawaii where we had fresh squeezed lemonade with freshly pureed strawberries. (1) I must recreate the Strawberry lemonade! (2)Have an outdoor movie night in my back yard. (3)Agree to get ice cream more frequently instead of obsessing over losing weight.
lovely as always.
1. learn how to make hard cider.
2. swim in freezing Sugar Lake in early morning
3. sun dry tomatoes
Precious new header!! 🙂
I’m a medical student, about to take my licensing exam and enjoy my “summer” of two weeks to relax.
Must Dos:
1. Clean House
2. Plant Herb Garden
3. Visit Family 🙂
Fabulous post! 🙂
Three things:
1) get a tan (I’m translucent)
2) create good memories at the beach with my daughter (15 mths) who has never been
3) lose weight!
1. Get to the beach!
2. Get my husband to start and finish the nursery! I will “watch over” and wear a mask- because he is making me. Paint fumes an all… LOL!
3. Quit my job and enjoy every single moment of sun on this growing belly- I just hate being trapped in this cage- I mean cubicle.
You and your family are such a wonderful inspiration! Happy Monday!
That Nella is just the cutest!!
my 3 things this summer…
1. big squirt guns with my little boys
2. weekend family trips to camp at my hubby’s childhood camping spot
3. popsicles and icy drinks in the evenings with good friends!
Just moved to central Florida on a brand new journey and just in time for Summertime.
Summer time to do:
1. Visit all the local Springs each Saturday with the family.
2. Road trip with my love, sans children, to Key West for a long weekend.
3. Hit the east coast to see the sun rise, then drive over to the west coast for the sun set.
4. Hit the farmers market each week.
5. Finish my Labor Doula certification and get my business off the ground in our new hometown.
My summer to do list:
1. De-clutter
2. Find a new hairstyle that fits me
3. Take at least one day to lay out at a pool with no kiddos in tow
1. getting a tent and camping for 4th of July
2. annual trip to Colorado
3. getting all the weeds pulled by the end of June!!!
1. run, run, and run farther
2. make crafts using old doors and window panes
3. read…I need help with this!
Love your summa’ time pictures 🙂
1. light a candle in the evening and sit out on the porch overlooking the garden-enjoy the cool air and relax with partner
2. Enjoy summer projects: canning, baking and singing 90s songs while in the kitchen
3. Hold hands with my handsome man as often as possible
Wonderful Post! Can Nella get any prettier……..
Must Dos:
1) A week of staying at a beachouse, with my hubby doing nothing
2) Enjoying weekend swims in our pool, every weekend, and enjoying my family
3) Sitting back and listening the sounds of summer something I never take the time to do
4) Loving my Mom as much as can she is very ill!
Shelley
I know
1. Clean out the clutter/crap in my house.
2. Paint the wood outside.
3. Spend too much time at the beach! 😉
Have a great week, Hamptons!!
1. Purge our house of clutter and unneeded “stuff”
2. Fill up the blow up pool on the back deck for my daughter
3. Enjoy the heck out of our upcoming vacation to Myrtle Beach
Thanks! 🙂
Love the pics! My 3 must-dos for this summer:
1. Survive a colicky newborn
2. Survive a colicky newborn
3. Survive a colicky newborn
🙂
1. go to the beach!!! 19 days and counting!!!
2. catch lightning bugs with the kids
3. make a growth chart for our house
1. Lake Michigan
2. Lake Michigan
3. Lake Michigan
Did you say it needed to be three DIFFERENT things? My husband grew up on Lake Michigan so that is summer for us. We can’t get enough of the Lake – heck my kids didn’t even know the ocean until 3 years ago – they were out of the house, 17 and 11!
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the pigtails!!! And the mud bath…so much fun!
My three things:
1. Go to the beach, as much as possible
2. Have a picnic
3. Love on my little girl
Hummm Three things…..
1. take more weekend trips with the girlie!
2.play in the sprinkler longer, even if the water bill is higher than normal.
3. take more pinics
I love summer, it’s simply amazing. Those girls of yours, they get cuter and cuter everytime you post pics!
I wanna be jammin to LFO too!
Loving Lainey’s “Oh Face”! Not just for Nella!
Love, love, love the pics from your weekend!
My three summer must-dos: visit Door County, go to a drive in movie and stay up late to see fireworks with friends.
1- renovate the kitchen
2- make my daughter some big girl bedding
3- bake in my new kitchen!
Always look forward to your beautiful pictures!
I loved the picture of the little girls bottom hangout out, it was just too cute and you totally swam with the dolphin.
1. Go to the beach and drive down the coast.
2. paint some portraits with my little man.
3. stay outside as much as possible.
Your blog totally inspires me to be carefree and have fun. You only get one life and your babies are only small once, so live it up… Thank you 🙂
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I burst out laughing when I clicked the link and found LFO singing away on youtube. Wow… memories…
My big “must do” plans for the summer include camping, maintaining a good biking routine with the family, and of course, enjoying the beach all summer long.
I love the wedgie picture, so funny!
My 3 musts for the summer:
1. Teach my daughter to swim
2. Help my husband find a new & awesome job
3. Go on a road trip with my mom and sister.
Looks like you had a GREAT weekened!!
Things I would like to do:
1. Get pregnant 😉
2. Have fun
3. Get organized!
Holy smokes, Nella grew between your last post and this. BTW, i seriously would love to blow up that last picture of Nella and frame it on my desk at work for an instand pick me up 🙂
Adorable. I love each and every post, but this one feels like summer more than any have so far this month.
My goals for the summer?
Write until my wrist hurts, and then write some more.
Read until my fingers have smudged imprints of letters and words on them.
Spend so much time outdoors that my dark hair turns light brown.
1)move into our new house BEFORE my son is born in August!
2)teach my 18 month old the joys of eating juicy watermelon
3) fulling enjoying every summer day like it was my last. No whining about how hot it is. 🙂
PS- I am in LOVE with that knitting bag. I’m so going to have to make one.
wonderful pictures, moments, as always,
this summer for me
1 take care of my belly
2 resting
3 seaside
our must-do summer list include:
-having J go to his first beach
-running through sprinklers
-homemade popsicles (making and eating)
Do you only have friends that are sweetly skinny, own adorable swim suits and have the cutest kids ever?
🙂
fondly,
Glenda
Summer Girls by LFO was one of the first songs I had to introduce my husband to when we got married. We took a road trip and I broke out all of my cool teenager cds and that happened to be one of the first ones 🙂 He just loved it…
Three things:
1)Sunday concerts in the park
2)Revisit our honeymoon spot in Carmel, California (should be on everyone’s bucket list) without the babes
3)Make fun homemade popsicles
1. Camping somewhere…anywhere
2. Learning to bake a berry pie
3. Bike ride at a state park
my three things are
1. watch fireworks
2. eat watermelon
3. quilt more
p.s.
love Nella’s pig tails!!
1. convert my garage into a play room for my boys
2. take a vacation ANYWHERE
3. Become a more patient mother
Love the mud baths! Looks like a blast.
1. DIY a head board for our bed
2. Bake fresh bread consistently as needed in our home.
3. Finish the nursery for my already 5 week baby boy.
1.) PLAYDATES, PARKS, Sidewalk chalk and so on…
2.) Organize and declutter before we downsize to a smaller apartment before my hubby starts a graduate program.
3.) Soak in my oldest daughter before she heads to kindergarten in the fall..sniffle, sniffle.
Kelle, I love your post this week about your trip to the beach and flea market! I too, liked that LFO song and laughed out loud as I played it and reminisced of days spent driving to the beach with friends, in my chevy cavalier with manual roll-up windows. HAHA
My To-Do List For Summer:
1) Throw my little one the finest “picnic at the park” themed birthday party in July.
2) In the same week, throw myself my own kick-ass 30th Birthday party which will pay tribute to my babies of the 80’s roots. There will be leg warmers, roller skating, and yes…rockin’ good 80’s music. The kind that would make Cyndi Lauper proud, and perhaps even jealous.
3) Enjoy our first ever “night away” from our little girl, as we take a trip up the coast to a quaint little bed ‘n breakfast. It’ll be a big step for us, but it’s time. 🙂
Two more days of school and then it’s officially summer for us! Hope you have a fantastic week!
P.S. LOVE the new header! Adorable! 🙂
1. Celebrate Afton’s FIRST BIRTHDAY!!!
2. Try not to cry at Afton’s FIRST BIRTHDAY!!!
3. See my husband for the first time in four months!
#1. Read books every night to my girls.
#2. Spend quality family time together (thank goodness my hubby and I are both educators, we get summers off)
#3. Soak up the warm sun and enjoy being home.
3 things I like to do this summer!!!1.Take my little Noah swimming. 2. Make smoothies! 3. VACATION!
I LOVE JUST DUCKY SOOO MUCH!!
My three things are:
*Trips to the homemade ice cream palor with my littles.
*Lazy days at the pool!
*And my annual summer concert…New Kids on the Block!!
Love the photos.
My three things are:
1. clean my closets out
2. swim with my baby
3. relax and enjoy life!
Loved — loved — LOVED LFO! What a great summer anthem that was (and still is)!
RIP Rich Cronin…
As always, thanks for sharing!
-A-
1. lots of beach/play time with my baby boy
2. read a few good books
3. get ready for baby #2 to come in the fall!
first off that pic of Nella with the orange push up all over her face. i’d buy a print of that! it was prec-ious! and the one of you and your friend covered in mud…awesome. i’m so jealous. that should be me on the beach covered in mud. too fun!
three things for this summer:
1. pack my house
2. unpack my house
3. paint my new house
Oh and for fun…hit the beach finally;) and visit DC. i so hope we can squeeze in some fun.
Lovely photos! Cheerful and relaxed.
Three things:
1. Ride the “Super Speeder”-boat, down at the beach
2. Sit outside as many tropical nights as possible
3. Eat strawberry cake in the garden at The Boy’s b-day
I’ll love doing these things!!!
1 – Get our house back in order.
2 – Can tomatoes from our garden.
3 – Enjoy our TN summer!!
Adorable pics of all the kiddos…I would love Isle of Capri!!
Happy Monday~
CC
Always jealous of your beautiful IOC, looks so relaxing.
1. Blueberry picking
2. Girls weekend
3. Make a new tradition
Oh i LOVE the mud pics!!!!
1. Going to San Diego!!!
2. Fire Works with family!!!
3. Water Park!!! ‘
I am LOVING the summer!!!
Kelle- I’m a new reader over teh last few weeks. Great blog. I’m born and raised in Clearwater, now living in CT and your blog reminds me of home every day.
Top three for this summer:
1. Learn to Kayak
2. Swim across long island sound for St. Vincent’s cancer research hospital
3. Get home to Clearwater for some gulf coast sunshine, white sand, and grouper sandwiches!
Great pictures! Wish we lived closer to water.
Things to do this summer:
1. Take our daughter to the gardens in which we were married 7 years ago this July.
2. Watch our daughter learn to swim.
3. Potty train our daughter…hopefully this doesn’t take all summer.
Mwah. That’s all. Just. MWAH.
PS I think that last pic just made my week. Your images feed the soul somehow. You inspire me, a long time devourer of all things visual. When I worked as an art director, I was never so happy as I was when working with a photographer in a studio or when I was crouched over a light box (showing my age) sifting through a metric ton of slides looking for my money shots. Your blog is like that. A feast. Thank you.
My top three must-dos for the summer – camping, weddings, and starting my life after graduating college!
Our family tradition of blueberry picking is always a must. Maybe we’ll still fit strawberry picking somewhere. And this summer I must have a weekend getaway with my husband even if for a day to go on an architectural tour of Chicago.
That and many days in the back yard just relaxing.
1. do nothing, and everything all at once. Not on a schedule, just go with it.
2. zoo, again and again.
3. ice cream shoppe. I love it when it is spelled like that.
I loved your post today. I am a June bride and I guess that means I have to live the whole month to its fullest!
My summer plans:
take advantage of the summer things I usually forget are so special. Swims in our own pool, ice cream trucks that stop outside our house, the splash park a couple of miles away.
Paint my girls toe nails. I did it once and they both LOVED it. And it so screams summer.
Evening motorcycle rides on the back of husband’s bike. a past time we enjoyed often before kids but lately, not so often. My first ride in 4 years was on our 4 year wedding anniversary and it was wonderful!!!
1. Working out with my teenage son. We are both getting stronger and spending time together.
2. Dinner on the lake. I hear they have a beach for the kids to play on. Sounds like fun.
3. Lemonade stand with my daughter – every kid should have one. I remember taking my earnings (like $2) and buying candy. Great memories I hope to pass along.
Love Nella’s pigtails!
My summer list includes going to the Distillery District in Toronto for a date day with the hubby, quitting my job to stay home with the kiddies 🙂 and going on a road trip with my family.
I love Lainey’s “O” face! 3 things on my summer “Must Do List” 1.Take the boys (5, 3, & 1 year old) camping for the first time. Real “roughin it Northern MN style camping”! 2. Go swimming with the boys instead of hiding behind fluffy clothes because I have gained to much weight. 3. Plant a flower & veggie garden. Enjoy the summer!
Ok, so not sure I could do the caked in mud thing, but you ROCK for doing so.
Second, that itty bitty crab was too cute.
My must-dos for the summer include swimming lessons for my 4 yr old son, making many varieties of frozen pops using the Zoku I got as a gift, and moving into and making a home out of the house we just bought.
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My 3 top summer list items:
1. Finalize our adoption. This will be taking place on Thursday!!
2. Picnic Thursdays. New park each week with fabulous friends.
3. Craft Tuesdays…time to get creative and spend quality time with my girls!
Get our daughter in the pool for the first time.
Get to the lake at least once.
Grill out every Sunday.
I love your new header, and your swimsuit, and your girls, and your blog, and YOU.
You’re so awesome, Miss Kelle 🙂
Three things this summer?
I suppose I’ll be blogging, reading and memorizing a bunch of Bible verses — 500, actually.
LOL I love this post for two reasons – that hilarious baby wedgie picture, and Nella’s positively bursting-with-happiness smile at the end. I just want to squeeze her.
My favorite part of summer now that I am a mom, is definitely the baby pool and the shallows of the local public pools. Watching my son kick his feet and scream as the water splashes into my face (and his, much to his dismay) makes everything bad just fade away.
1. Host a kickin 4th of July BBQ
2. Go to the San Juan Islands
3. Make blackberry jam
Fun post! Three things on my summer to-do list:
1. Introduce my sweet girl to the beach…6 months old and no sand between the toes, no salt water in her hair…yet
2. Make homemade peach ice cream
3. Overdo the 4th of July with my new little firecracker (her 1st)
My to-do list is quite expansive this summer as I am reedonkulously excited as it is my daughter’s first summer. But it may have to be revised as my excitement seems to supercede her age and associated limitations. (Wait – what? A 6-month old can’t have a hot dog, hold a sparkler, ride a boogie board or have a watermelon seed spitting contest? Oh.)
SO JEALOUS every time you blog about your beautiful sunny weather and beach visits…sigh..
3 summer musts:
Zoo, Stow House, Beach
1. have a fun & romantic 1st wedding anniversary weekend!
2. go to Tybee Island with about 20 members of my family!
3. Get a tan!
I’m loving the matching outfits 🙂
Just three things? Well, if I have to choose…
1. Weekend on the coast with friends
2. Visit family in the midwest
3. Home-done pedicures with my daughter every week – she loves painted piggy-toes!
l♥ve it all, as usual.
This summer..
I want to feel moments of happiness.
I want to explore.
I want to feel the sun in my face and smile.
hugs2u Kelle!
gorgeous pics 🙂 my must do list for the summer…give my 14 mo old his own popcicle for the first time, camp in our back yard with our girls, and keep my girls out playing under the street lights every night…so momma can sleep in each morning!! 🙂
OMG you look so happy that you scored that purse! Love it!! This summers to do’s? There is an overwhelming amount but hmmmm…I have an urge to skinny dip this year in the lake by our house. Go to the market and buy fresh mint leaves and limes and come home and shake em up with sugar and ice in a mason jar and sit on the deck and enjoy…and basically just chill with my little ones at the park across the street..oh,and install a dinner bell on my front porch lol! Happy Monday girl:)
Those outfits are so cute! I love the bright colors.
To do this Summer:
1. Redecorate my room
2. Explore DC our french exchange student.
3. Go to a lake and just float for a while. I love the water.
Sometime in my life I will need to go to the Isle of Capri. But for this summer…
1. Crochet booties and hats for all of the new babies about to enter my life.
2. Eat more blueberries!
3. Bake more cookies and let my kids help!
1. Must eat a popsicle on the porch with my little one each day.
2. Must grill out hot dogs on a regular basis. YUM!
3. Must NOT gain 50 pounds this summer during pregnancy. 🙂 I don’t think the popsicles or hot dogs are going to be much help.
xoxo
My three things:
Put in bay island
Pick strawberries with my daughter
Savor every summer moment
Three must do’s on the summer list are:
1. Watch my younger brother exchange vows, with kleenex and a huge smile.
2. Venture even further north {we live here:
http://everythingelseissecondary.blogspot.com/ } and hunt with my camera for wolves, caribou and amazing lake fish.
3. Kayak the northern chilly waters of Great Slave Lake in the North West Territories.
Glad Sunday was beautiful. North high-fives!
Looks like such a fun day at the beach! My husband and I actually worked on our to do list for the summer yesterday…Here’s some goals:
1. Take the kids to the local waterpark
2. Take our boat out and fish every chance we get
3. S’MORES!!! What’s summer without s’mores?!?!
I must:
1) Pass the first part of my medical boards
2) Take my 9 month old (where has the time gone) to the beach
3) See something other than the inside of my library study carrel.
The three things I’m doing this summer:
1. Take my three little girls and DH on an amazing adventure to Australia;
2. Start some horseback riding lessons with my oldest; and
3. Spend lots of time enjoying our back yard!
Love the pigtails on Nella – and look at those cute little teeth!
I love this post!!! Great pictures! Love the “mud” ones. 🙂
My summer list:
#1. Take my first photograghy class.
#2. Work on my new teachers blog.
#3. Find some mud to play in with my boys so I can take some fun pictures.
I love your new header!
I am trying to go without a to-do list this summer. But, I do have the obligatory “clean out the garage” and a fun “take little man to a water park”.
I enjoy reading your post all the time! Your girls are just so adorable! and Im loving Nellas pigtails..i’m thinking its time for me to try them on my youngest as well (she has about as much hair as nella :))
My three things to do this summer:
1. Go to the beach and relax and enjoy myself instead of just doing portraits for others.
2. Let my girls get dirty and not care so much.
3. Spend as much time outside as i can.
It’s been awhile since I’ve commented, but I wanted to let you know I’m still here!! I love your June girls. And that cheeky picture? Perfect!!
Keep on enjoying …
xoxo
Lots on our summer to do list but my main three?
1. Spend LOTS of time outside with the kids
2. Visit new parks
3. Learn how to use my camera better so I can take my son’s senior pictures while we are on vacation in Canada:))
I love the dolphin story. How awesome!!!!! I will believe that it was a dolphin that you felt. ;0)
My three things to do this summer is:
1) Finish my summer classes with A’s.
2) Have a blast on our vacations with awesome friends of ours.
3) Read lots of good books.
1. Say yes more than no
2. Spend time with the ones I love
3. Make peace with my post-baby body
wow! You must be from Flint, or somewhere around these parts 🙂
I love that Nella has pigtails!!!!
My list this summer is :
1.)To enjoy every moment.
2.)Go to the beach at least 5 times
3.)Go to concerts in the park, once a week.
Make memories for my kids and my family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great weekend photos.
this summer I want to
1 – Drink wine outside while leisurely watching the sun set
2 – Get a tan!!
3 – Spend the day at the beach with my girls ( we live in a land locked place with no lakes nearby)
LFO hahahahaha.
1. Go to San Diego, CA
2. Go to Culver, IN
3. Go to Reno, NV
I am loving all the mud:)
Things on my summer list of to-dos…
1. Spend as much fun time with the kids as possible.
2. Sell our house… we have grown out of it. It is time to move on.
3. Go to the pool/beach as many times as we can!
1. Have a smoothie for lunch every day, because really, it’s too hot for hot food!
2. Hang my own art in my house, unashamed!
3. Have at least two girls nights out!
Oh how you make me laugh! I can just picture myself…different car…but will never forget those sweet summer memories! This summer I want to:
1. Keep plugging away on my kids’ scrapbooks
2. Print, frame and hang my photographs!
3. Get my kids outside every day possible! I live in MN so we gotta get our fill while we can!
Hugs!
I love Nella’s pigtails. They make her look older! I’m waiting on my youngest hair to grow a little more so we can do pigtails.
My three things to do this summer:
1. Visit my mom in FL for 2 weeks.
2. Wake up one morning and just go to the beach, without planning it.
3. Not to stress so much; to enjoy my two girls. This is the last summer I will be a mother of 2. 🙂
1. View the 4th of July fireworks from the boat this year .. Even though our kids are 3,2, and 1 ..allow them to stay up to see them until they pass out ..
2. Make homemade popsicles
3. Learn how to use my new camera!
I love your blog!! Your adventures inspire me to have more of my own:)
I love your beach photos. Being a Michigan girl, I long for the salty water but appreciate the beauty in our 4 seasons.
My summer to-do:
1) Enjoy my pregnant belly and let it stick out of my bathing suit a time or two.
2) Fall asleep in the hammock with the one I love.
3) Make memories (big ones and little ones) with my niece and nephew.
My must-do’s this summer:
1. Spend more time outdoors.
2. Make more time for friends and family.
3. Travel! (in my case, it means travelling stateside from Europe – I’m headed to Georgia, with a detour to Boston for my friend’s wedding and DC)!
I LOVE THIS POST! THE PICS MADE ME SMILE SOO MUCH, LOVE THE GIRLIES IN THIER PIGGY TAILS..MY THREE THINGS THIS SUMMER
1.LOVE…LOVE INTENTIONALLY
2.PLAY…PLAY WITH MY LITTLES
3.LAUGH!!! FIND THE JOY IN EVERY DAY!
Three things for the summer….
1. knock one of the 14ers off the list with the hubby (14ers are mountains over 14,000 feet high in Colorado – SUPER fun day hike and breathtaking views from the top)
2. Get Wyatt to ride his bike without training wheels
3. Camp with the fam and sleep in the tent AND NOT THE CAR (I’m scared of bears).
I love matching outfits on my girls!
1) Watermelon seed spitting contest
2) Make home made ice cream
3) Volunteer as a family- this year-(picking up garbage at the parks we visit)
Three things I must do this summer are
1) hit the beach with my kids, bring along some kites for flying
2) Go camping
3) Go to the Zoo
Not gonna lie I had a dance party singing along to Summer Girls by LFO lol.
Love Nella’s pigtails.
three things I’m going to do this summer? 1.) soak up as much sun as I can (if it would stop raining) 2. hang out with my friends as much as I can and 3.) BEACH TRIPS!!!!!
Love this! What beautiful pictures!
1. Spend more time at the lake.
2. Use the organic crops from the CSA we joined in my cooking.
3. Finish the addition on our house.
1. As one of the first posters said, say yes more.
2. Make my own sorbet.
3. Eat outside a lot!
1. get kitchen backsplash tiled
2. see if Lizzie likes to eat sand at the beach as much as she did last year
3. spend more relaxing evenings on my front porch
…sigh…I wish I lived by the Isle of Capri…so very lovely…
1. PLAY!
2. Organize all of my delicious, must try recipes I have gotten over the years and haven’t tried…
3. Suck the marrow out of every minute before the school year sneaks back up on me!
1. Since you said it, now I must have it. I will be visiting family in MI and will have multiple Slurpees while I’m there!
2. Take more time to enjoy my new found passion….photography!
3. Take time off from work. I’m horrible at it. I have so much vacation time to use it’s almost embarassing.
1. Take pics of the girls eating sprinkled ice cream cones (checked off this weekend!)
2. Have a picnic “on a blanket, not at a table” per my 3 year old’s request
3. Make my mother-in-law’s potato salad
What a lovely post… I swear I wish we were neighbors/best friends and I could manage to get my hot little hands on your girls’ hand me downs! SUCH cute girls!
So my summer plans…
1. Successfully grow this baby girl through the humid michigan summer.
2. Soak in the last months as a family of three with our amazing three year old.
3. Go to a drive in movie theater with my hubby for a date night!
Kelle, I love your blog! I told all my girlfriends about it too 🙂 Adorable pics of the girls, and that Nella has a smile that melts my heart.
My 3 things for Summer:
1. Go to more street festivals in Chicago and enjoy the fact that we live in an amazing city
2. Celebrate my 1 year anniversary with my hubby on our trip to Hawaii
3. Spend more time outside and enjoy what could be our last summer before kids 🙂
Wow I wish I was in Isle of capri!
First thing we have to do is pack! I hate packing but that’s what you get when you marry a guy in the air force!
The second, is I have to make sure EVERYTHING is organized in this packing hehe
And last, we are to travel 300 miles South West of the UK, to say goodbye to my family who I am going to miss, but boy are we going out with a bang!! =)
I LOVE your blog, so happy, so inspiring. This question is a tad mundane, but I have a little boy just three weeks older than your sweet Nella. Can I just ask how you get Nella to nap in random places? This would make our summer lives so much easier as I also have a 4-year old son who would love to spend his afternoons at the pool and not stuck at home while his brother naps.
1. Heading to northern MI for a change of scenery and a vacation
2. Photographing my girls in our wildflower field when they FINALLY bloom
3. Buying crab legs in bulk and having the whole family over for dinner on the patio
I had the same car (a different color), but it exploded in flames one day after I parked it in the parking lot at my summer job. (I think I may have mentioned that.) I sang too, but my music of choice was by none other than Mr. Ricky Martin. (-: I may or may not have belted out “Shake Your Bon Bon”` a few times in my super cool wagon. I’m not going to admit to having made my own Ricky Martin hanging rearview mirror decoration out of a thin piece of cardboard and a cut-out from a magazine either. No ma’am, that wasn’t me. (-; Yeah, I’ve always been so so cool. (-; Darn, now I have that song in my head. YouTube here I come!
So, my must-do activities for the summer? Just three? Hmmmm… Well the baby we’re adopting is due in about two weeks, so I’d have to say that one of our must-do’s is going to be soaking up as much of that precious, super special little girl as possible. Basking in the wonder of motherhood has to be an awesome way to spend any day- summer or not. Must-do #2 is spending some special alone time with my hubby as he has lots of vacation time saved up that he needs to use. A lot of that time will be family time, but alone time is nice too and it is, of course, possible with little ones in the house. (-: #3? Hmmmm… I want to make time to get back to painting. Painting works on canvas has always been something I’ve loved, but I haven’t made enough time for it over the past few years. I’d like to work on this creative outlet at least once a week if possible. I don’t have to spend a ton of time on each “session” but I do want to do something related to this at least one time each week. There’s more that we’ll do too, but I am a stickler for rules and you did say just 3. (-:
Have fun with your precious littles this summer!
1. Trip to MI! First time 🙂
2. Farmers Market
3. for my son to master the 2 wheeler!
Aren’t we all thankful for AE!!
1. Take a family vacation – somewhere not in Kansas or Missouri
2. Be a better blogger
3. Take my boys swimming and be comfortable in my suit. They deserve that.
Nella has piggy tails!! TOO cute! my three things this summer:
1. Have baby #2
2. Enjoy my first born as much as possible!!!
3. Move into our new home!!
I could keep going there are sooo many things that I would love to do this summer!
1 – spend as much time at the pool as possible.
2 – say “yes” to my children!
3 – get outside after dinner and enjoy sunset with the family…..during the school year it more important to finish homework and get baths and get in bed – whew. summer is for the opposite of all of that!!
1. Either maintain a house so clean I can truly welcome the visit of the spontaneous guest…or…
2. Learn to be so comfortable with the “less that perfect” house so the same spontaneous guests will be invited in with comfort and joy, comfort and joy…and…
3. Spend some time with the grandchildren…just Poppa and them…no adults, just us.
I loved the photo of the girl with “buttage” — it’s like cleavage, but behind and under. Too cute. (It is cute only on the young…just sayin’)
My must do’s are:
1.) Take more pictures with my girls. Need to stop always being the one behind the camera!! If they were to look back at all the pictures right now, they would think they were raised by their father! That has to change.
2.) More Snow-Cone Saturdays!! My K loves snow-cones and why I think it takes too much time to get them for us is beyond me.
3.) Buy my K a tricycle!! I am checking out the balance bikes right now!
Have a wonderful week!!
Umm..my dad had a teal ford escort, (We called it the Gumby-mobile), that I attempted to drive – right around the same time LFO Summergirls came out – haven’t thought about that it forever.
Love Seven Brides for Seven Brothers!!
1. get my house cleaned up
2. spend every spare min. enjoying my cuddle bug
3. take afternoon naps
Tori
Pools, pigtails, sundresses, running, family vacation. Yes. That’s my summer!
That looks like the weekend I wish I had. We spent it at the hospital trying to ride out the flu bug with out little miss. Next weekend…Next weekend…I have hope. (p.s. I lurved a good american eagle t-shirt sale…that meant summer was official)
Love the pics!
Three things to do this summer:
1. Complete another 5K race
2. More random day trips with the family.
3. A few more camping trips aka bug catching!
Hi there,
Top things on our summer list include:
1- a trip to Disneyland
2- lots of trips to the beach to run our feet in the sand (and hopefully start next school year with a tan)
3- some spontaneous trips to here and there to explore and build memories…isn’t that what summer is all about?
I’ll be watching to see what fun adventures you and your family have!
I had to comment on this because twelve years ago, right about now, I was home from college, cruising around in my teal Ford Aspire (nicknamed The Teal Turd)! Gotta love those teal cars of the 90s!
Three things I must do this summer:
1. Eat seafood by the water.
2. Read a mystery.
3. Drink a gin and tonic.
1. make pioneer woman’s iced coffee.
2. run more
3. go kayaking where i live in grand rapids, MICHIGAN (woo woo!)
I really loved the matching outfits and wanted to say how much I miss Nella’s “OH” face :().
1. Get new carpet in our house.. Yippee!
2. Go camping just outside our beautiful hometown of Missoula, Montana!
3. Run my 3rd 1/2 marathon also in my beautiful hometown of Missoula, Montana!
Currently being on vacation in NC outer banks and leaving wednesday for a cruise to the bahamas. my three things to accomplish are:
A golden sun tan, snorkeling, and taking tons or beautiful pictures 🙂
Melissa
1. Finish as much of my house projects as possible.
2. See Ben Folds.
3. Enjoy.
I want to redo our office/play room in pink. We are growing our first ever vegetable garden, and i want take a lot of naps and eat a lot of ice cream with my girls!
Wow, really needed to read this happy, lovely post today.
summer list:
-keep up a new jogging routine
-regular beach days
-sidewalk chalk, bubbles, cupcakes, cold drinks & friends
I remember finding that teal station wagon for you…and we were in the car driving you over to see your new vehicle and I remember, somewhere between our driveway and the home of the person selling the car, you saying, “I’m not picky, but all I ask is, Please don’t put me in a station wagon!” And it was. Turquoise Blue. And you drove it shamelessly. You could have fed a family of four from the remnants of fast food you chowed down going back and forth to school and work. And there were enough complete outfits of clothes in that wagon to have dressed you for a week. It looked like a travelling episode of Hoarders. the ash tray was filled with lipgloss and eye pencils–like that was what it was designed for. Ultimately, I think you started it with some little toggle switch some mechanic had rigged up for you to use. You two were like beauty and the beast. While it was ultimately designed to hold up to 7 passengers, in the end, there was barely room for you. I think you would have survived any crash for all your stuff would have worked better than an airbag to cushion you. But you rocked it out. Do you remember when you were backing out of a drive, and you thought all the people on the porch were waving at you so you were waving back wildly to match their waves…you even beeped your horn at this grand farewell, only to learn they were waving frantically to tell you that you had backed right through all the garbage they had put out near the road for that day’s pick up, and when you took off, you pretty much hauled it with you and spread it all over the neighborhood while you waved, smiled and beeped you way off. Too many memories of that Teal Escort. But love you still.
–Poppa
1.make popsicles and ice cream
2.walk on the beach with my 1 year old in the middle and 3 year old and I holding her hands 🙂
3.read a book on the porch
Kelle, I think I watched Seven brides for seven brothers about 100 times. I loved it, I too was not allowed to watch all the movies my friends were, but if we had been able to we would have missed that one.
to do:
1. oak’s park amusement rides
2. a hike under the falls at silver creek
3. farmers’ markets
yeah, summer!
shen
This post was just what i needed! I love your bathing suit!
This summer, I must:
1. Go to the beach. I’ve lived in southern california my whole life and cannot remember when I last spent a day hanging out at the beach. (The dog beach is different!)
2. Go to the fair! I freaking love the fair!!!
3. Take a vacation. A real one. Last year, we bought a house so our vacation was spend cleaning and painting and moving into our first house. I want to do something fun this summer!
Three things on my to do list this summer…
#1 Potty Train my 2 year old
#2 Run
#3 Go home to Rhode Island
1. Must travel to MI (my hometown) to see my Grandma. She hasn’t met my son so I’m super excited.
2. Must spend as much time at the pool as possible.
3. Must have an amazing first birthday party for our little man.
So I’ve only been reading your blog for about a year. And I heard you reference Flint, but mentioning Courtland Mall just made my heart skip and a big smile on my face. What town are you from? I grew up in Lapeer and my dad lives in Davison. We used to go to Courtland Mall all the time. I remember my stepmom not taking us to Genessee Valley unless my older stepbrothers were with us (for protection) and as soon as we got off 69 she’d lock the car. Thanks for bringing up some fun memories!
1. Go camping (I have never been in my life, and always wanted to!)
2. Host a BBQ for friends.
3. Make popsicles 🙂
I have never seen this movie…I have to! I’m a June bride!!! 🙂
Loved the photos!! Especially that last one of Nella! Adorable!!
My summer to-do list includes:
1) More spontaneous ventures with my kids.
2) Car shows, fairs, festivals… as many as my 8 month pregnant self can handle.
3) Giving birth to my third sweet baby in July!! <3
1. take a beach trip
2. make a pancake breakfast every saturday morning for our little family
3. spend as many days as possible at the pool!
1. Fourth of July on Bethany Beach, DE and vacation in Stone Harbor, NJ
2. Spending carefree days with my boys:)
3. Shop for some sweet new baby clothes for the little one we are welcoming this fall
um. i love your blog – so i followed your link to your summer anthem. *worst song ever*. hehehe. Glad you’re not perfect, kelle 🙂
1. Enter & race in a road race – i’m not picky about the length…
2. meet my internet girlfriends who i’ve been friends with for 4 years for the first time.
3. Not hate my birthday this year. i’m not sure how i’m gonna pull that one off, but the last couple have just. been. so. lame.
My 3 things would be….
1. Spending Sunday’s at the pool with my girl
2. Make it to Savannah for a weekend
3. Make more art
3 things…just 3?
1. Keep on runnin’…
2. knit
3. sew
There are so so many more that I could list. Summer means endless possibilities and long luscious days…so important to a dreamer like me!
my top 3 to-do’s for this summer are: 1.plan/book a trip to London for our first Christmas as newlyweds 2.take afternoon naps, while its raining, whenever possible 3.read at least 5 books
1. Take my girl to the lake so she can play in her yellow polka dot swim suit.
2. Road trip to San Francisco
3. Get through this first trimester, because I’m only 8 weeks in and it’s totally kicking my butt.
P.S. Love Nella’s pig tails. I’m not so patiently waiting for Lilah’s hair to grow long enough so she can sport them.
oh em gee, i am old – i’ve never heard that song – ever.
and those pigtails? might just be the cutest thing i have ever seen.
I <3 summer! If only in Oregon summer would finally arrive!
With that the 3 things I must do this summer are:
1) Take my 3 kiddos for an impromptu day at the beach just to build sand castles and jump in the freezing pacific ocean waves!
2) Hike Multnomah falls again, this time with my two oldest hiking on their own and watching with amazement how accomplished they feel at the top!
3) Spend more time outside with no agenda, other than to just spend time together enjoying the outdoors!
“Yeah, that’s not ours.”
Thank you for a long chuckle on that one. Made my morning.
3 things that I must-do this summer?
1. Acknowledge that it’s summer for one thing!
2. View it like I did when I was a kid not as the overworked, overwhelmed and overextended adult that I am now.
3. Get back my kid-like enthusiasm for summer!
Thanks always for a chuckle.
Heather
The first thing I noticed in the picture of Nella on the blanket is that she looks like she’s clapping her hands – and I cheered! I nanny a 13-month-old boy with Down Syndrome and we are tirelessly modeling clapping, among other things, waiting for the day when he can do it too! I always rejoice when I see other children who have hit the milestones we work so hard for.
As for my summer list:
1 – Spend a weekend at the lakeside cabin with my friends.
2 – Eat some cheese curds and a deep fried candy bar at the state fair!
3 – Find at least a few minutes each week to lounge by the pool.
1. Have this baby! I can not wait to meet her!
2 Get to the beach at least twice before said baby arrives
3. Go fruit picking!
This summer I will
1 – Use my time off from teaching to pretend I really am a stay-at-home-mom & soak up every moment of it
2 – Spend more time with friends – I love what you said about the best get-togethers being the impromptu ones
3 – Choose to be content in the small things that make my life as wonderful as it is
I love pics of Nella with mud or sand in her mouth. She’s so bad-ass.
1.) read, read, read trashy romance novels- not informative all the time.
2.) make a new meal each week- like pick out totally new ingredients too.
3.) have an overnight with my husband.
1. paint my fridge with chalkboard paint.
2. spends hours by the pool watching my children splash.
3. take kids to the MS river to cruise on a boat with friends!
1. new recipe for marquiritas
2.more swimming dates with nieces
3.laugh more
I SO remember in about 1998 cruising with my bestie in HER white Ford Escort wagon (the seat belts were so cool because they were on tracks!) listening to LFO! Except we did really bad things like go to tanning beds (do people still do that?)
Anyhoo, three things:
1. Take my kids to the library once a week
2. Buy a Slip n Slide (check)
3. Camp out in the tent in our living room (AZ is too hot for outside-check)
My kids have always sang “Tomato Island, gonna catch you smilin'” when the flea market jingle comes on 🙂
dear Summer Loves,
1) buy a back yard pool
2) swim with my kids
3) Love every minute
I also am resolved to NOT watch the calendar days tick off, sighing sadly about how soon it will be over.
love,
My favorite time of year
in
NE
Love those clothes! It’s so fun everywhere I go in Missoula I keep seeing pictures of Nella and I want to say to people…I know her! But, I don’t because I don’t really know Nella but I feel like I do! 🙂
3 Summer Things:
1. Smores with my kids
2. Camping with our group of friends and littles everywhere!
3. Late summer nights with our little ones where we look at the clock knowing we are getting further and further from bedtime!
I love summer!
I found your blog a few weeks ago and I’ve been hooked ever since. I’ve been inspired to capture every day moments since then, and it’s really causing me to stretch my photography skills.
On my summer to-do list:
1. Find a pool to swim at. There’s not many in New Mexico, so I might have to go hunting.
2. Paint my toe nails really bright, really fun colors.
3. Have park play-dates with my niece. Her little brother just died 33 weeks into the pregnancy, and so I’m going to cherish every second I have with her.
Beautiful pics, as always!
Your day sounded amazing and YES I remember that song very well! My 3 must do’s this summer:
1. spend the days making memories with my babies
2. Take my son to Busch Gardens
3. Sit with my toes in the sand
My three must do’s for the summer:
1. Have fun with my baby (6 mths) and watch him grow & learn new things.
2. Lose the baby weight and then some.
3. Find a new place to live.
My 3 summer must do’s:
1. Start going to the gym regularly again (I’ve been a slacker!)
2. Play and enjoy every minute I have w/ my little one.
3. Finally finish “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”.
1. Sno-Cones, yes please!
2. picnic on the farm wearing a flowery dress and cowboy boots with my
3. July 4th party with fireworks and margaritas
1. Find the “hidden waterfall” at a local state park.
2. Attend a baseball game with my family.
3. Eat ice-cream at least once a week!
1. Lemonade Stand
2. Visit Bay Beach- WI
3. Find a little cute ice cream shop
Love the pictures! Just beautiful.
1. Driving in the car with my friends, the windows rolled down low and the music turned up high…hair blown in the wind.
2. A summer week-end sleep-over with my besties. (Or two, or three, or four…)
3. Find the perfect sundress and accompanying floppy hat. 🙂
june is my month…
my list is the same every year
1. farmers market every wednesday, its the best in ontario and its exactly the market you are dreaming of
2.swimming lessons for the kids, on a muskoka beach, just like i did as a kid
3.and entire beach day with my sister and nephew.. we start with brunch picnics, take turns with babes in the beach and the water, nap on old comforters we use as picnic blankets, read magazines, sip our spiked lemonade and then the men come with take out dinner and a after work swim with the kids.. we stay till sunset…
thats my top 3. but there is so much more. i live in cottage heaven.
I love June! It is so filled with possibilities and no pressure from summer yet.
Three things that will happen this summer:
Lose 20 pounds
Breast feed my baby past 5 months old
Have Art Playdates every week where all the kids get filthy.
1. Have a baby
2. Relax with my kiddies
3. Enjoy time with extended family
1) Camping with the little ones.
2) Take out with the neighborhood.
3) S’mores.
Love the photos!
This summer, we WILL take the kids to the beach and the zoo. And we WILL visit Disney World so Wyatt can do the Hot Dog Dance with Mickey Mouse.
OMG I simply LOVE that last picture of Nella!!! I realy need to consider moving so I can spend all my time at the beach!! thank you for sharing!
My three things…
1. Spend time at the beach with my kiddos
2. Go camping
3. Read some good books!
1. Meet my baby girl.
2. Set up my son’s summer therapy schedule.
3. Have fun!!
HURRAY FOR SUMMER! Here’s my list:
1) Play hooky from work one day and escape to the beach by myself.
2) Go for a neighborhood bike ride with my polaroid camera and see what happy pictures I can find.
3) Make ice cream from scratch with my little one….and then eat it all 🙂
June in Montana; so far it means rain boots, sweatshirts and mud puddles…but it has also brought the most beautiful rainbow I’ve ever seen! So, we’re still loving June here too.
Three things:
1. Breathe deeply of the pine trees on hot camping weekends (of which we hope there are MANY)
2. Dates with my hubby on the decks of a few great restaurants in our area, enjoying the live music and microbrews
3. The home birth of baby #6, with all members of the family in attendance. A perfect end to a perfect summer. (I’m due at the end of August!)
1. The beach
2. The beach
3. The beach
(good thing my parents live there)
3 must do’s of this summer:
1. Take my daughter to Sesame Place
2. Have a water fight party with all the neighbors in our development
3. Have many picnics at the beach/park by our house.
Thank you as always, Kelle, for you beautiful pictures and words. Have a wonderful, happy and safe summer 🙂
1. Landscape my backyard…and put in a hammock that swings from the trees.
2. Relax…I have 3 weeks off!
3. Let my year old niece eat my ice cream. It’s ok, I know where we keep it and I can always get more.
I’m going to
1. sing more
2. sleep less
3. go outside more!!!
Love your blog Happy Summer!!
Last weekend I overheard my husband tell some friends that I live for entertaining and that I love having people over. Yes it is true! I love sitting on our revamped porch breaking bread with friends and watching our kids play. It is my favorite part of summer and what I MUST do!!! Love your weekend pics:)
Great photos! I love the matching outfits. That fabric is great.
My three things are: get all the painting done that’s on my list, have a picnic at our favourite park and sit on a sunny patio with friends.
Three things:
1. Get my youngest girl’s hair in piggies – thanks for the reminder!
2. Run almost daily. I have time when I’m off for the summer. 🙂
3. Enjoy every moment I get with my girls, big or small.
I have 7 more days before summer break…cannot wait!!
This summer I will:
1. Train to run my third half marathon in a year’s time. Pretty spectacular for a girl who didn’t run at all three years ago.
2. Turn the nursery into a real guest room.
3. Stop saying “Let’s hurry” to my kids so that we can relax and enjoy each other this summer.
1. Hike Beacon Rock 2. Have many picnics with the children 3. Walk every day
Love your pics of the girls:)
Kelle- I just love your blog. It’s everything that I dream our family will be like someday. We are expecting our first baby (a boy!) in the fall & my husband and I love to look over your beautiful family pictures and dream about what fun things we’ll take our baby to do soon.
Summer list:
– Find a decent place to live
– decorate Rowan’s nursery
-Go outside every nice day & spend less time inside in front of the tv!
That song is going to be stuck in my head all day now! haha!! Also, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is my favorite movie of all time. (My husband makes fun of me so badly for that!)
What a lovely weekend!!
PS – I won the Piccadilly Circus giveaway a few weeks ago. I emailed you but haven’t heard back – I hope my email didn’t go to spam! (angelfacedesigns AT gmail DOT com) Thanks!
That song is going to be stuck in my head all day now! haha!! Also, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is my favorite movie of all time. (My husband makes fun of me so badly for that!)
What a lovely weekend!!
PS – I won the Piccadilly Circus giveaway a few weeks ago. I emailed you but haven’t heard back – I hope my email didn’t go to spam! (angelfacedesigns AT gmail DOT com) Thanks!
Three things:
have a picnic with my family at the beach
Have more camp fires
perfect the “hobo pie”
Lainey and Nella’s pigtails are too sweet!!
1. Continue harvesting the garden
2. Sunset drives through the country with my main man
3. Sit on the front porch with Molly to enjoy summer rain storms
Gorgeous post as always!
3 things for this summer:
1.Make homemade ice cream.
2.Learn how to use my new camera.
3.Take long after dinner walks.
Okay…first I have to tell you that my brother SANG LFO’s “Summer Girls” in his high school’s Mr. Hermitage pageant. He used the karaoke track and it was great! He is still a rock star in my book!
Now, three things I *must* do this summer:
1) lay on the beach with a good book surrounded by my extended family (next week-hooray! and hubby’s side in July!)
2) re-read The Help in preparation for the movie coming out!
3) take my 2.5 year-old camping for the first time (so scary)
-going camping for the first time ever
-sounding related to the above but its not is a hike with my girlfriends since I haven’t had a really good time out with the girls since my 3rd baby was born last July
-related to the 2nd is a really good(and much needed) date night out with my husband during which I’d like to try sambuca.
P.S. I’m not Rebecca, but that photo of you in the hat would make an *excellent* FB profile picture!
Hi Kelle!
3 things on my summer “to do” list are:
1. take more photos!
2. master PSE and Lightroom (I’m still kinda slow in editing)
3. Make my packing list (and pack) for my trip to Tanzania in August.
No very exciting but 1-get last of the triplets potty trained 2-go on an adventure with them once a week (farms, zoos etc…)
3- go camping this summer with 3 and a half year olds….
4? survive it all 😛
I totally drove a ford escort during my high school and college years too! I hated those manual windows 🙂
Our summer list is simple:
1. Spend ample time in the water, whether it be at the pool, in the back yard, or at the beach.
2. Make snow cones and lots of other tasty treats for my boys to enjoy on the deck.
3. Enjoy every second I get to spend with my family!
well— obviously swim with dolphins. 🙂 but in lieu of that.. 1. go camping with the kids– for the FIRST time. 2. work on a patio space that i actually want to be 3. temper my addiction to pinterest. thus having time to work on #2. 🙂
My 3 Summer must dos:
1. Celebrate 10 years of High school memories @ my Reunion wiht old friends!
2. Relax and pamper myself!
3. Beach trip baby!
Ok, so I’ve never tried for anything her but these are super cute! My summer to do list: 1.) Visit state parks with the fam and take lots of photos!
2.) Make smores and stay up late catching fire flies in the backyard multiple times!
3.) Go to the ocean and make sand castles with my kiddos!
My Summer To Do List:
1) Visit the beach (we don’t live closeby)
2) Drive in theater – multiple times
3) Fireworks
My summer must dos:
1.Celebrate 10 years of high school memories at my reunion
2. Relax and pamper myself
3. Annual beach trip come Sept!!!!
love the pics and oh.my.goodness! nella has piggy tails!!!
my must do three things:
1. host my little’s rockstar outdoor music fest first birthday party! less than a month left!
2. revel in all the maxi dresses that make my pregnant body look somewhat acceptable (and they help keep me cool).
3. love. fiercely!
1. make a new friend
2. sew something
3. be a better mom and wife
1. Eat some orange sherbet push-ups!
2. Build a flower bed on the west side of my house.
3. Play in the river by my folks house with my kids.
Nella’s little pig tails are the cutest things ever!
Three must-do’s for the summer:
1. Listen to LFO’s “SUmmer Girls” now
2. Take my baby home from the NICU
3. Go fishing
This was a wonderfully inspiring post for beginning a fabulous summer:)
Oh Kelle, your Nella reminds me so much of mine. In fact, she’s laying here on my chest, all sleepy from a fantastic summer day of swimming, and when she saw the pictures of Nella she said, “Mimi”, which is what we call her (her name is Mira, she’ll be two in september). What beautiful girls you have! Three goals for summer? Go camping, a lot. Take the girls to a baseball game, and have a successful garden!
LOVE your new header… and all your awesome pictures!
1. Have more playdates
2. Visit Destin, Florida – our favorite family vacation spot
3. Take more pictures!!!
1. Eat too many cold treats (popsicles, freeze pops, and ice cream)
2. Give my son too many kisses, hugs, and cuddles while home for the summer (I am a school teacher)
3. Spend as much time surrounded by family and friends laughing and smiling
My 3 summer must-do’s:
1) Get a kiddy pool for the little man (This is actually already checked off as of this weekend and was enjoyed thoroughly. Now his first words when he wakes are “Pool? Pool? Pool?”)
2) Make a sun dress.
3) Go to the beach at least twice a month.
This is going to be the best summer we’ve had since we moved to Florida thanks to my baby boy. His love for playing outside has forced me to get creative and more exploratory of our surroundings, which means we’ll be making the most out of our summer.
#1 chillaxin with the kiddos
2 Tampa & disney for my daughter Laniers FIRST TIME
3 hanging round the house and crafting with mommy
Love that sweet baby butt picture!
My three things for this summer are to sell my house (14 months on the market and counting), to get organized, and to do a whole heckuva lot of fun stuff with my kiddos.
Take a nap in my anti-gravity chair out on the deck, go out on a date night to the amusement park with my husband, walk all the way around the shoreline of the lake at the family cabin.
I loved that LFO song too that summer! I think it was the summer between my junior and senior years at MSU. My top 3 things this summer are to:
1. Enjoy my kids. I just quit my job so I can stay at home with my 6 year old and 3 month old full time.
2. Go to the pool often
3. Get rid of clutter!
…… i have more than 3…. but here goes…. 1…. learn to swim… for real…. 2… paint something beautiful…. cause i have that itch… and i just keep making excuses…. 3… eat a vegetable straight off the plant… i love to grow vegetables… i just don’t eat them…
oh…. and lainey making the “o” face… that’s some true sweetness…
Kelle–Thanks for always inviting us into your home! Beautiful–love the smile in the last photo! Wow, takes the breath…
1. Continue to get to know my blog: http://livingfromyourheart.blogspot.com/
2. Take lots of walks with my dear pup, Junebug.
3. Practice patience as often as possible.
Thanks Kelle!
xoxox
Beth
My faves:
*Nella’s pigs!!!
*I tried on a hat exactly like the one Lainey is wearing yesterday at Ross….except in khaki.
*Your knitting/purse….I don’t think I could wait until Fall 🙂
*I always felt bad for Dorcas (Dorocus?)…just her name alone–haha!
* Y’all have nice legs 🙂
*Mud around Nella’s mouth…cutie pie!
*And I just went to a Just Ducky trunk show! Super cute stuff. Love Nella’s ruffled pants!
3 things:
1. Just sit. With my boys. And talk. With eye-contact.
2. I WILL finish projects for Nora’s b-day party. I always have good intentions, but rarely follow thru!!!
3. Eat “cleaner”…..except my chips. I will not give up my chips.
Happy June,
Kelly
number 1 is to enjoy a little bit of sleeping in.
2. popsicles at bedtime
3. drive in movies 🙂
I can’t wait to have look at just ducky
tanya
5 kids
Love all of these photos! Looks like a beautiful place!!!
3 summer must haves… messy outdoor art & crafts, yummy snowcones (never the same flavor twice until we’ve tried them all once…) & camping or hiking with family and friends. The list is actually a lot longer, but those 3 categories sum it all up. Hope you have a great summer too!
Kelli, PA
Summer must do:
1. Cheer on Merrick as he swims, by himself freestyle across the pool. (Almost there!)
2. Run across the causeway a few times.
3. Actually finish a book on my kindle before buying a new one.
1. Actually do the summer bucket list I’ve made for my kids!
2. Swim at every available opportunity whether the house is clean or not!
3. Sell my couch and find an awesome new one to replace it with!!!
I LOVE. LOVE. LOVE. those outfits. I want one for my little bun in the oven!!
My summer to-do list:
1. Try to survive my 2nd trimester
2. Find a fabulous crib at a garage sale to refurbish with my husband
3. Enjoy my last summer as a newlywed because, come December, I’ll add the title “Mama” 🙂
3 things for summer?
1. Prepare the house for our August baby!
2. Family photo shoot w/mamma’s belly
3. Introduce popsicles to my little one
1. Visit the beach
2. Visit the zoo
3. Take my daughter to swim classes.
1. Catch lightning bugs
2. Go to a little airport, have a picnic and watch planes take off and land
3. Put up a big white sheet and show a movie in our backyard- invite over all our little and big friends
🙂
Summer To Do’s
1. Get some badass rainbow socks.
2. Embrace my baby belly, and not worry about the 50 lb I am sure to gain this 3rd time around.
3. Win a random post give away!
The piggies make me smile from my soul!
3 things for the summer
1. Make patriotic cookies to mail in care packages to my kids in Cali BEFORE July 4th this year.
2. Abandon thoughts of studying for my next Praxis exam.
3. Sport my bigger boobs from my upcoming post-cancer reconstructive surgery.
Love the girls matching look as well and the smiles..
3 things this summer .
Well… get my garden to grow seeing as I am in Canada
It was only planted this weekend so we will see
Most important see my daughters face. I am on an adoption wait list and have been waiting 5 years but I am now # 1 on the list so ring phone ring !!!!!!!
Getting ready to travel to Ethiopia .
Cant wait !!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy Summer
Shannon
Summer Fun List
1. Go to the lake with the family
2. MN State Fair
3. Spend quality time with my four year old daughter who is growing way to fast.
Those warm summer days are making me jealous…it’s cold and rainy in Nova Scotia today
Summer List:
survive being alone all summer with my three kids while the hubby is away with the Army
be a tourist in my hometown
enjoy every sunny day we get!
3 summer must-do’s…
-visit the beach
-stay up way too late letting my boys play outside and catch fireflies
-take a walk every day
–every time I’m longing for the beach, I open your blog, look through the pictures and then close my eyes for a few minutes…all becomes right with the world again 🙂
1-Ride Behemoth at Canada’s Wonderland
2-Lose my baby weight by Labour Day
3-I want to learn how to sew, even if it’s just a botton on a shirt
Love this post.
Create a gallery wall in my den.
Spend time at the beach.
Go tubing down the river.
1. screen on the green
2. party for ellie’s baptism
3. learn to take better photos
Hmmm…3 things I plan to do this summer:
1. Nothing…absolutely nothing (I’m a teacher and my last day is this Friday!!!!! Woooo hoooo)
2. Snuggle in bed with my daughter
3. Actually do a few things on my “To Do” list now that I finally have time…scratch that!! GO TO THE BEACH!!!!!!
My summer list:
1.) Reconnect with my kids with bike rides, popsicles, and naps on the hammock.
2.) Lots of swimming!
3.) Summer night entertaining in our back yard.
Melanie
mi3ragamuffins at aol dot com
1) Go with my 8 year old to have her hair cut so we can donate it to “Angel Hair” (they make wigs for children in Oregon, where we live) – she’s been growing it out for almost 3 years.
2) Visit the ocean at least 5 times. We live too clost not to.
3) Camp in tents. Like the real deal. (But just once.)
My summer to do list…
1. love my brand new baby
2. lose some baby weight by walking and swimming lots
3. spending time at the beach spontaneously with our new family of 3.
love, love all the pics!
1. Lake
2. Beach
3. Carowinds
One is done, 3 is tomorrow, and 2 is over Labor Day.
Love summer, and LOVE your blog!
Nikki
Cute matching outfits on your babies… my girls love to match- even their bathing suits 🙂
1. finish the bonus room converted to playroom makeover (it has become such a huge/expensive project with an art station, dress-up area, tent, puppet theatre, etc…that it may have to come from Santa) but I still want it done this summer!
2. find cute white shoes to start nursing school (you dang useless finance degree 🙂
3. lots of golf cart rides hunting rabbits, stroller rides for water (in those cool white paper cone “water cooler” cups), and trips to the swimming pool where big sister practices her swimming and baby sister begs for snacks 🙂
Cute matching outfits on your babies… my girls love to match- even their bathing suits 🙂
1. finish the bonus room converted to playroom makeover (it has become such a huge/expensive project with an art station, dress-up area, tent, puppet theatre, etc…that it may have to come from Santa) but I still want it done this summer!
2. find cute white shoes to start nursing school (you dang useless finance degree 🙂
3. lots of golf cart rides hunting rabbits, stroller rides for water (in those cool white paper cone “water cooler” cups), and trips to the swimming pool where big sister practices her swimming and baby sister begs for snacks 🙂
1- take our daughter to the DC zoo
2- move to a bigger place for our growing family
3- Williamsburg trip!
Such adorable pictures. Isle of Capri looks absolutely amazing!
Three things on my to do list?
*Finish my reading list WHILE laying in the sun.
*Eat as much fresh fish as possible
*Simplify and truly enjoy the small things
Nella has the best expressions! I love the photos you take of her. She is breathtakingly gorgeous and I love watching her grow. Thanks for sharing your photos.
Oh my gosh! Your girls keep getting cuter and cuter! Nella has pig tails! I love pig tails!
My top three things to so this summer are
1. Go camping at least twice.
2. Spend a day at the lake playing in the sand and water with my kids and hubby.
3. Have more one on one dates with my hubby.
1. Bring my baby girl to one of those fountains that come up from the ground for little ones to play in
2. kayak
3. buy a box of Pop-ice!
1. Log as many days at the beach of Lake Tahoe as possible. It’s like our Isle of Capri! Come to Cali, Kelle, and I’ll take ya’! 😉
2. Teach my 11 year old and 8 year old to type. I have them doing a Sponge Bob Typing Tutor 15 minutes a day, and it’s working!
3. Settle down a bit, enjoy my favorite friends, and maybe let one particular friendship go by the wayside, as it seems to be hurting me more than anything.
1) Buy push-ups.
2) Do a few push-ups.
3) Buy a push-up built in bra in a new bathing suit.
wow, I do not know where tostart with the pictures, you always amaze me and leave me in awe with your posts. I love the little girl with the wedgie picture, How cute… I loves the pony tails pics that your girls were sporting and the mud baths you all were sporting (how refreshing). My 3 for summer are
#1 spend as much time with my grandbabies as I possibly can
#2 soak up every bit of advoce and knowledge that I can possibly get from looking at your photos
#3 is stopping to enjoy every day of summer, while taking long walks and never hurring my grandbabies when they want to stop and check out something that looks super cool to them. Life flies by way to fast.
I can not even pick which of your pictures that I think is the cutest, they are so cute and Life looks Grand
easy question…
1-take my baby boy to the beach for the first time
2- watch him take his first steps (he’s soooo close!)
3- make smores on a camp fire
1) get ready for baby #2, due 12/30!
2) savor every moment with #1
3) eat more ice cream!
1. Travel with my baby girls for the first time
2. Read some good summer books
3. Get to a weekly yoga class
http://cherrypietwins.blogspot.com
I too love your blog. I can’t get over how precious both of your girls are. I often cry when I read your blog. I’m blaming it on my preggers hormones, yet your pictures and writing always tell a beautiful story.
My summer must-dos:
~Eat dinner outside at least 2 times each week
~Paint and decorate our third (and last) baby’s room. Due Sept.
~Get all of my pictures from LAST YEAR into the album!
I absolutely love the last picture on this post…Nella is just adorable!
1. Take a trip to Chicago with kiddos.
2. Family trip to U.P.
3. Spending some quality time with my husband!
Thanks!
what a beautifully fun day your little family had 🙂 i always get so excited when i see you have a new post because your pictures completely inspire me. in fact, i tend to keep your pictures up when doing final edits on my own to compare the lighting and processing with yours. they just have such a glowing, natural look that i truly admire and it inspires me!
would you be able to direct me to the post where you spoke about Nella’s yellow necklace? i feel like i remember seeing it in passing but i can’t quite remember if i just made that up or if you really wrote about it 🙂
Love the new sponsor! Great gift ideas for all myfriends having babies 🙂
Things for this summer:
1- play hooky once (I mean my school is yr round and I am an ABA therapist, dint we all deserve some summer fun..??
2- learn a new language, I mean my boyfriend is fluent in Hebrew and Id like to be able to speak to him
3- take risks, not be too sensitive
1- make homemade ice cream
2- visit Hershey Park
3- get 3 month old (now) to sleep through the night , or at least more than 4 hours!!
My 3 must-do’s are:
1. Make s’mores with my little ones
2. Take them to their first fireworks
3. Eat ice cream for breakfast
Thanks again for making me appreciate my life!
River, picnics, camping, fishing! Loving those pig tails!
1. Eat ice cream for breakfast.
2. Pick strawberries like we are finding lost-forever jewels.
3. Make memories that will last the whole summer through–and then some.
Can you text me the next time you hit up the Isle of Capri? Looks like a summerific haven! 🙂
Lovin’ the memories that song just conjured up!
My summer…
1. t.v off, music on
2. swim, swim, swim
3. enjoy every moment before my big girl starts school in the Fall 🙁
1. Walk and finish my first susan g. Komen 3 day walk
2. Put pink in my hair
3. Take an all day bike trip!
Love your weekend!! I so remember jamming out to that song. lol.
1) picnics at the covered bridge
2) do a huge art project with the kids
3) make a trip to visit my parents!
last day of school was today so i am so excited to spend the days with my little one. on our list 1. visit the bean at millenium park 2. go to the zoo 3. be crafty and carefree! hello summer break!
I am madly in love with this blog, from the name, to the amazing photos…just everything.
Teach my big girls to cook.
Drive 5 of my kids to Texas. By myself. From Va. And meet my oldest there.
Spend more days relaxing and not yelling than yelling.
I love your blog and your June bugs are beautiful!
Three things we have to do every summer are, go camping, swimming and boating on a lake somewhere. I love summer, having all three of my children home is both fabulous and draining, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. Thanks for writing such an inspiring blog and letting me read it.
Melanie
I love that Lainey loves to match Nella… sweet sister.
…and the dolphin touching your foot was WAY exciting! 🙂
I am dying over Nella’s pigtails–the cutest thing I’ve seen in a while. Summer musts:
1)Wake my daughter up to come outside and see fireflies.
2)Make homemade popsicles
3)go to as many outdoor concerts as possible.
love your blog. 🙂
Always love your prose and the pictures of your beautiful beaches. The girls are so beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
LFO…awesome!!! And totally old school!!! We must be the same age because it sounds like we were doing the exact same thing at the same time:) Almost 31?
Love your weekend pics and have added the Isle of Capri to my ‘must visit’ list!
Three things this summer:
1) Do a sprint triathlon
2) See Sarah MacLachlan live at the winery
3) Buy a membership to the zoo
Looks like another great weekend!
My summer list
Read a book for fun ( any recommendations?)
Go to explore some of the fun parks around us.
Watch a parade – I took my daughter to her first parade last year and she loved it. It was great seeing her excitement and awe of this new thing.
Happy Monday! Oh that song totally brings me back to college – good memories.It was funny when I played it my 3yr old got down and my 11 week old fell asleep.
1. take my daughter for donuts at night, just me and her
2. write home, with an actual pen and paper
3. visit a water park with my kids
First off I would like to say I too was the girl that drove a station wagon and could not afford Abercrombie in college.
Now for 3 things
-take my little girl camping for the first time
-spend a weekend away with my hubby only (have not done since our little girl was born over 2 years ago)
-go on walks, bike rides, whatever-just spend as much time outside as possible
Seriously, I am from Indiana, which makes me a lake girl…but you really make me want to move to the beach. The photos in this post were wonderful and simply captured so much joy. Thank you for sharing!
I am so jealous that you are celebrating summer! Its the first few days of winter here in Australia 🙁 not cool!
I LOVE the swimsuit-grundy picture, made me giggle hysterically! My three things for summer:
1.) Make my own ice cream with the kids (always sounds like so much work)
2.) Run every week, because even though I say I hate it, it makes me feel good
3.) Fly kites and actually get them soaring!
You must have some crazy magic lens on that camera because your pictures are so much more than pictures….each and everyone grabs my heart so deeply. Your girls have infectious smiles! Something about Nella reminds me sooo much of my Mateo…I’m pretty sure it’s the smile…she is a DOLL!
1. Celebrate 10 years with my honey!
2. Watch my sweeties swim until they can’t hold their eyes open!
3. Love that I am a teacher and I can be at home with them in the summer!
1. Learn to like kale.
2. Keep walking every day (so far so good)
3. Continue to have coffee on my front balcony every morning that it isn’t raining – I leave for work happy if that happens.
thanks for sharing your lovely photos with all of us.
three summer must-do’s:
1. take lots of our mini vaca’s to the coast.
2. play with my dogs more.
3. backyard bbq’s with our great peeps.
My summer must do list includes many long days and little income.. Im a college kid trying to make it in the big world and trying to have an influence on a family like yours in the way of the sweet guy on looking in nellas walking pics.. Im spending my summer observing at a PT clinic hoping to advance into PT school come fall of ’12
Summer List:
1. Get a nice golden tan
2. Visit the camp that I used to work for when I was in college.
3. Take my son on his first trip to the beach!!
I love that picture of Nella sleeping. She is just so super cute!! :0)
Three things?
1. Drink iced coffee every day
2. Cancel cable – live life instead of watching
3. Read read read!
Love the new header, love the flea market purse find, and love Nella’s pig tails….
Three things I am looking forward to this summer:
1. Our annual trip to Allegany State Park
2. Taking family strolls around the neighborhood
3. Heading to the beach
Nella has piggies! Cute! 3 things on my must-do summer list this year…
1.) Head to the Gulf for the first time (this week!)
2.) Lose the baby weight & actually enjoy working out (Hello X-Box Kinnect)
3.) Make my rented townhouse feel like ‘home’ 🙂 (Ikea trip)
I have to visit this Isles of Capri, maybe next year! It seems so idyllic! A soundtrack that reminds me of summer is The Babysitter’s Club movie soundtrack. I listened to that soundtrack every day for an entire summer. Good times!
I am so sorry that you have to put disclaimers. I trust your good sense in parenting.
Things I’m looking forward to:
1) 4th of July weekend on the beach in Michigan with my college housemates and our new babies and spouses.
2) blueberries
3) teaching my munchkin how to swim before his 2nd birthday.
Loving the June happiness!! Three things on my summer list: Bring our first little one into the world (due in 7 weeks!), go to the beach (not an everyday thing here) and introduce baby to my family’s little getaway place in Grand Bend.
Oh man, my Ruby Girl needs those beads in her HAIR! (yep, I”m yelling.)
But anyway.
1. Eat gazpacho
2. Drive-In movie
3. Silver Beach
So many plans for this summer since I’m actually off of work for maternity leave!
(1) Catch fireflies with my girls;
(2) Finish baby girl #1’s Christmas stocking, start and finish baby girls #2 and #3’s Christmas stockings;
(3) Put together photo albums for the past 4 years
My three things to do this summer:
1) Finish sewing my summer picnic quilt
2) Continue my goal of running at least 3 times per week
3) Finally purchase new curtains for our bedroom!
-Go camping, even though I will be very, very pregnant. And by camping, I mean real camping, like with a tent and fire.
-Swim, swim, swim.
-Soak up all the sun, vit. d, and love that I can before 6 months of winter roll up again.
Mud baths are theraputic, right?
1. Clean out my trunk. 2. Finish our nursery. 3. Pray more.
Brooke Annessa
http://www.theannessafamily.blogspot.com
I don’t know who Rebecca is & I’m clearly not her, but YES….that should definitely become your FB profile pic!
Must-dos for the summer…s’mores as many nights as possible…figure out how to use our telescope we got for Christmas…and get my big guy more comfortable with the ocean!
Love the new header too!
I want to throw my baby the best 1st birthday party, I want to decorate my living room, and I want to repaint my kitchen table.
Hmm. My summer to do list includes:
Spending time with my beautiful 5yr old and almost 2 yr old princesses.
Playing in our blow up pool with my girls who don’t care that the water is only above their ankles 🙂
Having our third baby girl at the end of July. We’re not even talking about August people, July!
1. Go to the beach
2. enjoy many snow cones
3. live in the pool
LOVE Nella’s pigtails!!! reminds me i should try to do that to my daughter’s hair:)
3 things on my summer must do list:
Go to the beach(even though its just Lake Erie)
Have more cookouts
take more pictures of my kids enjoying being outside!
HA! So I’m totally laughing about the Courtland Center comment…went there many a summer when visiting my mom in Michigan. Unfortunately, now you might need to pack some heat if you go there, plus it’s pretty empty…kind of sad ;-(
Love the mud pics…mud is fun or that’s what my kids say.
As for my my three things on my summer to do list…here you go!
1. Blare Summertime by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince from my car with the windows rolled down cruising the country roads of Iowa.
2. Have breakfast with the giraffes at our local zoo
3. Going to the Iowa State Fair and seeing the butter cow and eating hot funnel cakes.
I remember American Eagle! So funny, I also used to shop there in the mid-late nineties. What a blast from the past…
Top three things to do this summer:
1. Watch my almost 14 month old little guy run in as many sprinklers as he can.
2. Enjoy ices with all four of my boyz (three boys and a husband!)
3. Sit on my front porch and count fireflies with them.
Love those dresses your girlies are wearing!
Love the pig tails!
To do list for summer:
1) Swallow my insecurities and take the kids to the local pool at least once a week.
2) Take the kids on a day trip by myself when daddy is at work.
3) Try every flavor at our local snow cone shack. So far I have checked off three. 46 more to go.
That last photo of Nella is just killing me. Delicious!
Oh Nella how I love seeing that BIG delicious smile of yours that speaks of the love you have within your beautiful soul!! (last photo)
And what a perfect t-shirt for Lainey “Happy Go Lucky”
And Kelle…another beautiful post. You are dynamite girl, the way your words just flow and how I can just picture you driving in your teal station wagon, french breading your hair…and I don’t even know you…just from the beautiful stories you share here…
I love your weekend post full of life, experience, laughter, love…all the ingredients to a good life!!
Happy days to you!
Monique
Monique
I just want to say that you have the two most beautiful little girls and you are Mom that I want to be to my little girl :)…My 3 things I want to do this Summer
1) take my lil one on a picnic in the Dupont State Forest.
2)Go Strawberry picking (check as we have done this already :))
3)Pick my little one up one day and just get in the car and drive. No plans, no destination just let her choose all the turns.
On my summer list of things I MUST do…
1. Take a family picture where my husband and I got married. It’s so pretty…on the beach by two lighthouses. I love to compare each year…my two girls not in the first anniversary pic…baby in the second year etc. I love this tradition.
2. A camping trip to Hatteras, NC. Long, lazy days spent on the beach with friends and family. Can’t beat it.
3. Many, many days poolside with my girls.
I.go to the beach at least once a week
2.go into the ocean
3.breathe & relax
xoxo
cathy
The last picture on this post is by far my favorite Nella picture!
1. Tell all my loved ones that I’m now 9 weeks along with my first – so surreal and exciting.
2. Spend 4 days at the cabin withOUT checking my phone once – just read, laugh, and relax.
3. Find the perfect balance between enjoying the accomplishment overdue house projects and not feeling guilty to do absolutely nothing.
first married summer (and in a new state–kentucky is quite a change from michigan, i’m finding). i must…read one book every week….go camping…..and visit the zoo at least once every month.
happy monday, and happiest of summers!
love the new header
love the post
love that you almost swam with a dolphin!!
3 “must do’s” for this summer:
1) Get a fun new hairdo
2) Take the kids camping…real camping, in a tent!
3) Make a fabulous Shutterfly book of our summer adventures!!!!
-Jenny in Iowa
Thank you for inspiring me and for a glimpse into your beautiful family. The three things I want to do this summer are to 1. go on a date with each of my three children.2. Take my family to the Soup Kitchen and serve the hungry. 3. Repaint my bright orange laundry room.
My three things:
Lay on the trampoline and find shapes in the clouds with my kiddoes,
weed my garden for real this year, and enjoy each and every 5 am nursing that I get to share with my angel baby who has an extra chromosome.
Thank you for putting into words what I still struggle with in my head.
1) Beach. At least 10x
2) Take a nap outside (preferably at the beach)
3) Rediscover my love for reading. Novels.
To do list for this summer::
1: enjoy the summer music fest, rain or shine, hot or humid or cold. Just enjoy the music, my kids and the fun.
2: Take better pictures. I need to learn how to work my new camera, not just point and shoot.
3: Enjoy the warm and sun because it’s going to go by so fast and before we know it the snow will be flying again.
~Rhonda
http://www.followtheknapps.com
I just started working on our summer list this evening… yes, a literal one 😉
1. Yurt camping at the beach
2. Berry picking
3. Visit a farm
Oh, I love that little butt shot! Too cute!
My musts for the summer?
1. Drench my entire chin in dripping butter from fresh-picked sweet corn.
2. Spend an entire evening with my kids catching lighting bugs and see how many we can fit into a mason jar. (and of course letting them go before we head inside!)
3. Run through a sprinkler no less than 2 times a week!
1. Be more spontaneous
2. Trust myself and my abilities as a Mom
3. Have at least one meal outside everyday
Love your photos and writing 🙂
I LOVE LFO’s SUMMER GIRLS!!! Ok, now that I got that out of the way, I LOVE the girls pig tails!!! Too cute!!! This summer I’m going to 1) get a job!!! 2) reread the Twilight Books and 3) grill out as much as possible!!!
I just found your blog, such powerful posts! I’m your newest follower and excited to be one.
1. Go back to NYC with my girlfriends and their teenage daughters for a whirlwind 3 day trip!
2. Take my kids camping for the first time as a family
3. finish my first college class toward my degree (first class in over 12 years!)
Love the little itty bitty crab… so cute!
1. Travel
2. Eat as many meals as possible outside/picnic style.
3. Wake up with the Sunrise… and watch as many sunsets while enjoying the moments I have with my precious kiddos!
Relax,
Love,
Smile.
I love flea market shopping. Great find!
Kelle, I wish we lived near a beach! I’m stuck in Utah, in the middle of a desert. Summers here are miserably hot- really, sweltering. This summer:
1. Stop taking so many damn shifts at work and actually enjoy my summer. The money is no longer worth the exhaustion and I’d rather be home.
2. Run in a marathon supporting Primary Childrens Medical Center. They saved my sons life.
3. Not worry about my horribly messy house and play outside with my baby. Every Single Day.
🙂 Happy Summer, Pretty Mama!
My to-do list for this summer…
– Play outside everyday with the kids.
– See friends and friends of my children.
– Finish my memoir!! (I don’t know if we say it like this in English…)
Nella is so cute and I like when the two of them match! Nella’s kit seems very nice!
How much do I love that wedgie picture!! 3 things to the summers agenda: 1: Camp in Yaak, Montana.
2: Can as much as I can.
3: Spend as much time as I can in our garden with my daughter.
I have a HUGE summer bucket list this year, but the 3 I am looking forward to the most are:
1 ~ Ice Cream for dinner
2 ~ Lunch with Daddy at his work
3 ~ Diet Coke and Mentos!
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Confession: I have that LFO CD in my car. I almost pulled it out today too. 🙂
I LOVE Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. One of my favorite musicals of all time. Our movies were limited to G or PG and only Country or Christian music. Because you now, 90’s pop is so sinful! My 3 things for summer: camping with my boys; spending time with my mom & grandma; having a weekly picnic in the park.
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Love is everlasting, Its amazing how one picture can capture the fact that you have won the jackpot in life.
list for first and last summer of being 20 years old
1.find a summer crush
2.take a picture that i can’t help but get it printed, framed and hung in the last frame for my room.
3.To learn to dance or get a song stuck in my head as a stress reliever
3 things to do this summer..
1) get my toes in the ocean
2) over use our pool pass
3) get pregnant 🙂
Love the photos Kelle, as usual!
1- finish chicken coop
2- move chickens out of my bathroom to their new coop!
3- build a little hut for our grill! I am loving this building thing!
June has always been one of, if not the most, favorite month. This month holds mine and my 2 boys birthdays. All of our birthdays are within a week of each other.
My summer to do list:
1. GO TO THE BEACH (I’ve been telling myself and my husband this for the past 2 months)
2. Fly a kite with my boys as much as possible.
3. Take more pics and more videos of my boys (I’ve been slacking)
PS That third pic, the one of Nella eatting the push pop is to die for. Just melts my heart.
1. skinny dipping!
2. camping with my family
3. roasting marshmallows more than once a summer
discover new places
sun soak
try my first pina colada
And here I was thinking I was the only one who still listens to “Summer Girls!” Summer needs a soundtrack and my daughters think I’m crazy when I belt it out in the van 🙂
1. Spend a one on one day with each of my three kids-even the 14 year old-who might rather be with his friends…
2. Spend an entire day just with my husband
(doing the above all before I do number 3)
3. Travel to China to bring home our new baby girl Marlo!
Our summer to-do list:
–have a fantastic b-day party for the kids (both in June)
–spend as much time at the lake as possible
–don’t plan too much–go with the summertime flow. 😉
Love, love, love that last picture of Nella.
Three things:
-make a real smore (over a campfire)
-sit out on my deck more (summers are too short in MT)
-hike to a couple of close by waterfalls
LOVE the pigtails!!!!! And the purse!!!!
My summer to-do:
1. Create a cooking show with my kids who are obsessed with being chefs :o)
2. Get a full time teaching job!
3. Make this the best-summer-yet for my son who starts kindergarten this year…His world is about to be ROCKED! (and I don’t think I’m prepared…)
Spend as much time as possible with my girls.
Take them to the zoo.
Take them to the beach.
Love your pictures! My girls love to match their clothes also.
Run a 5K
Do a beach run
Explore a new city
Aah, that looks like so much fun!! Here by us (South-Africa), it is winter now…and the beach is a bit far from us (Johannesburg) but we did go to Mozambique for a last taste of summer holiday 2 weeks ago…Played some really fun games with my in-laws in the lagoon and took a boat trip to the beach and had loads of fun 🙂
Three must dos for summer….
1 a trip to california. Road trips are a must for summer
2 swimming ALOT
3 bbqs with all the family its loud and crazy it’s summer. Ilove it.
12 years ago I was chasing a 15 month old toddler! I miss those days!
LFO? WTH? Never heard of them or that crazy song! LOL A and F had not made it’s way to Houston, Texas yet so I wouldn’t have know what it was. Now my child at 13 wears it. And I happen to like Chinese food! :o)
Love all the pictures! Especially the one of your friend in her mud bath glory! And that super sweet one of Nella in the middle of the girls in her pink floaty.
Yes, it was a dolphin that grazed your leg! :o) Or a shark! EEK!
My to do list…. More talks with my 13 year old about boys. Family reunion on my husband’s side for the 4th of July weekend. Diggin’ in his Spanish roots. Will be fun! I am sure I’ll be the only pastey white girl there. :o)
I hope to have our guest room redone by being painted and dolled up in this very very cute shabby chic collection I found at a great deal!
And repaint the dining room in a darker blood red. Walls got scraped when the Christmas painting slid off the wall, oops! But I want a deeper red.
Then major foot surgery in July. That, not looking forward to. But gotta do it. :o( So, please blog a lot so I can have something to read! :o)
I am ready for fall now…. Too hot in Texas!
1. Get pregnant 😉
2. Garden a lot
3. Go to the river a lot.
I love that you linked to the June Bride song!! I love that musical. and I actually just used that song to talk about Wedding Tips for my Stronger Marriage Blog. great minds think and love things alike 🙂
love your blog!!
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Three things to do this summer.
1. Hang at the lake.
2. Hike the trails.
3. Enjoy each day and all its blessings.
Three must do’s….
1. Put MY hair in pigtails…perhaps childish…increasingly comfortable…
2. GO TO THE BEACH (If only it were closer…)
3. Eat lots of watermelon…watermelon is best at this time… 🙂
1. camp with my family
2. read in the hammock with my kids
3. hang my laundry out to dry
Three things on the list for this summer: Take a zillion pictures, Beach playdates, at least one picnic each week. No big vacations for us, just some local summer lovin’!
Must DOs for summer?
A week at the cottage at the lake
The GREAT NY State Fair
And, a 6 hour trip to the Rhode Island Kite Festival
and, a 3 day trip to New York City *squee* with my mom & my sister – just the three of us! *SQUEE*
1. Go on family bike rides after dinner.
2. Go to the pool on as many Fridays as we can.
3. Be accepting of the heat, so I can play outdoors with my daughter.
I must go to the beach.
I must meet with friends for dinner. Lot’s of friends.
I must make it the best summer possible…in NY it sure doesn’t last too long ;(
I just adore your blog. I wake up every morning hoping to see a new post! What a beautiful life you live.
Three things for the summer that I must do:
Go up north (we live in the mitten)
Eat cherries from traverse city
go to cedar point (and actually ride something worth while haha)
Since we moved to the new city we are currently in last summer and my youngest was only 6 months, we didn’t explore much….so, this summer we are taking advantage of everything. Beaches, farmer’s markets, kids lobster boat adventures, etc. We are going to live it up! I love sunscreened, sweaty, tired babes from lots of fun in the sun ; )
1. fill the walls of my house with photos of family/friends/love.
2. pass my NCLEX first attempt
3. run a 5K in under 28 minutes…. these are my goals for summer 2011
1. Throw a Sseko party for the sweet college girls that I love (and, really, their mamas too).
2. Continue writing in my journal everyday.
3. FINALLY get around to making the Pioneer Woman’s cinnamon rolls.
Love,
Holly
Love Love Love the pics in this post!
Three Things I want to do this summer:
1) Organize my basement even thought that is really a WINTER chore.
2) Spend more time outside playing with our children.
3) Go Camping!
As always, you leave me happy and a little breathless. When I die, I want to be reincarnated as one of your girls. For real…
Ok, three things for summer:
1. Read the final Outlander book. Been saving it for a year. It’s time.
2. Spend time with my dad. He is really sick.
3. Enjoy every day with my girl before she starts Kindergarden. Why does this feel like the last “normal” summer we will ever have?
Thanks for the chance to win.
Oh my goodness, I love that the bottoms of Nella’s shoes say “Angel” and that photo of the back of her w/ the pigtails looks suspiciously like Lainey, I almost thought it was her at 1st!
3 things for summer:
1. Pull physical fitness from the back burner to the front one.
2. Take my kids on adventures around the world. (or at least to KY for my grandmother’s 80th birthday party)
3. Take my camera on all such adventures but never once make my children say “cheese”.
Love it all, as always. Their matching outfits are absolutely precious!
So jealous of your beach Sundays!
Three things we must do this summer:
1. Go to a petting zoo. Or any zoo for that matter.
2. Go the beach at sunset
3. Go to an outdoor concert.
My 3 things I must do this summer….#1 enjoy the sunshine by working in the flowerbeds; #2 loose the 10 pounds I gained during winter; #3 visit with my mother, who is 80 years young.
Kelly – I love the pictures you take – also, where are the hair bows for the girls pigtails?
lol, dont play like you dont love singing along with The Family Band. I actually found it on vhs.
I need to figure out how to put it on DVD. the kids should also be indoctrinated with a love of cheesy old disney musicals.
summer plans
1. rock out jonah’s 4th birthday party. spiderman, capes, and bounce houses
2. lots of trips to the zoo.
3. brown boys in bike helmets.
Love the pigtails on Nella!! AND Lainey of course =) 3 things I must do this summer:
1) Continue to teach my 2 1/2 year old how to kick her legs and arms in the water
2 Continue to find and perfect new grilling recipes for my family
3) Get pregnant =)
Loves me some Seven Brides for Seven Brothers! Think I will watch it sometime this week!
LFO is on my iPod, LOVE IT! It takes me right back too!
Can I go to Isle of Capri next Sunday? LOVE your pics of that place!
1. THREE beach trips this year, WOO! One was not enough last year.
2. Turn 30!!
3. Start training for a half marathon!
1. Baby pool at 7am followed by a healthy breakfast of popsicles on the swings with my three kiddos
2. Evening walks with my brood catching lightening bugs and waiting to see if daddy will make it home before bedtime.
3.Blackberry pies with homemade vanilla ice-cream. The first berries in our yard are started to darken and we can almost taste them already!!
1. play on the beach during sunset
2. finish decorating our baby girl’s nursery
3. indulge in a handful of neighborhood impromptu cookouts
Your posts are so inspiring! My three musts for this summer are
1. Letting my house get messy(ier) so my children and I can spend our summer outside
2. Taking our 3 year old and 1 year old camping
3. Keeping up with my vegetable garden that I seriously neglected last year.
1. Bake with my girls 2. Hold an Alice in Wonderland murder mystery party for 13 years olds 3. Steal a minute for myself:)
1. Learn more about photography.
2. Spend LOTS of time enjoying the the weather with my girl.
3. Go on some sort of adventure with my family.
Nella looks so adorable with her muddy grin!
Summer Must Dos:
Getting the video camera out more versus the camera. Gotta capture our son saying ‘winner winner chicken dinner’ and Keghan saying uh-oh…
Taking a few days of vacation from work for myself.
Finishing a Java class.
Kelle….please comment on where Nella’s necklace is from. I think I had a baby bracelet back in the day that was similar to that – the beads anyway. Thinking my doodles needs one similar.
Happy June!
Your girls are JUST beautiful!! LOvE these pics of ’em. I love reading your blog. I always hope some of your carefree-edness (like that word?) will rub off on me. 🙂
1. Spend LOTS of time having fun with my girls.
2. Go camping.
3. Get some projects done around the house.
Have a great day!
This summer I will:
1. Play in the pool with my baby boy.
2. Read a book or two.
3. Plan a vacation with my husband!
Lots of summer to dos–1. Visit zoo 2. Get my oldest in swim lessons and 3. Learn a few new recipes with garden fresh veggies!
Three things from my must-do list this summer: Walks with my beautiful brand new baby, visits with family I don’t get to see often enough, dates with my husband.
Thanks for your blog, it is so beautiful.
We plan to have a squirt paint fight in the park, eat watermelon and cherries with friends while watching fireworks and take our boys to a monster truck show at the fair. 🙂 So excited!! Loved your post!!
1. Watch a really wicked Thunderstorm out the Window of my home
2. Go to the Beach
3. Take my kids to the Zoo & Aquarium
Amazing Pics as always…you have me so in love with your Isle of Capri that I looked it up on a map to see if we can add it to our Disney Trip next year;) I also love your girls’new name necklaces! Here are my summa time to dos
1.find a favorite picnic spot(like your woods)
2.Spend an entire day at the state fair
3.go camping at least twice
Summer is a special, magical time for us. The one time a year when we are back in the U.S. of A. The kids are already planning our time. “when we are in the States, . . .” is a common thing overheard these days. So in just 18 days our summer starts and we will:
1. eat ice cream EVERYDAY
2. squeeze a year’s worth of family love into 7 short weeks
3. Spend most nights counting stars and catching lightning bugs
Get ready, summer, here we come!
LOVE the girl’s pig tails!!!
Swim, swim, swim with the kids.
Prepare for the flood in the midwest.
And…swim somemore 🙂
Must dos:
-Train ride downtown with the girls and spend day at Millenium Park
-Host big summer bbq
-Relax in the sun!!
12 yrs ago right now I had just graduated college and was prepping for my freshman yr of college…so I’m right there with you. That song cracked me up, I would have never remembered it! 🙂
just graduated highschool that is 🙂
Ha — I STILL am obsessed with 7 Brides for 7 Brothers! I used to force my older brother to do all the dances with me….and I’m pretty sure I still have them all memorized. 🙂
My summer list:
1. Attend 2 rodeos and 2 baseball games
2. Visit Enchanted Forest, this hokey little homegrown amusement park nearby that I absolutely love.
3. Plan a 10k race for next summer
1. Camping with the fam.
2. At least 3 more beach days.
3. Drive-in movie.
I LOVE YOUR SWIMSUIT!
My summer 3: (1) Work out every day (2) make more things (3) wake up early!
I LOVE YOUR SWIMSUIT!
My summer 3: (1) Work out every day (2) make more things (3) wake up early!
Hahaha! I love the chunky baby cheeks! Also, that little girls braid-locs are gorgeous and such festive beads!
Definately swimming, and spending the day at Lake MI, since we live 2minutes away!
Taking the kids out back to swim in the pond.
Baseball games!! All 4 kids in baseball make for a busy summer, but memories we’ll always have as part of our fun, busy summers!
This summer I MUST spend lots of time in the pool with my sweet little girl. I MUST eat lots and lots of ice cream! and I MUST stay out side until the “light’n bugs” are flickering… I love the summer!
1. Sno Cones
2. Evenings in the baby pool
3. Drive-in movie
i used to be mildly obsessed with LFO. sadly, rich (the rapper who was really good at rhyming words, even though 98% of the time they didn’t make sense) passed away from cancer last year. so sad. 🙁
anyway, my summer to-do list is four pages long. currently i’m longing for a camping trip, fireworks and a scavenger hunt with the littles at the zoo. 🙂
as always, love your pictures! and i say it was toooootally a dolphin.
I love the matching dresses!
My goals for the summer:
-go waterskiing in the river (and hopefully not see any gators)
-be as excited about summer as my 4-year old
-work on my photography skills
1. Meet the baby that’s been growing inside of me for the past 7 months
2. Set up his nursery!
3. Eat lots of ice cream cones
Not necessarily in that order.
This post has so much CUTE in it, I can hardly handle it… the baby booty cheeks sticking out of the bathing suit, Nella’s pigtails, your bating suit, all so very cute!!
3 things I plan on doing this summer:
1. Make homemade popsicles with my girl.
2. Take my girl and her friends to the splash park (before I do #3)
3. Have a baby.
This summer…
I will kiss my babies more.
Not stress about laundry.
And take a fun trip. Somewhere 🙂
To the Heather ^^^ that commented above. Rowan is my nephew’s name!
1. Make baby food for my little Sophie with veggies from Great Grandma’s garden.
2. Hang out at the lake.
3. Clean the guest room.
Brilliant and inspiring as always. Thank you for that. 🙂 On my to-do list for the summer: HAVE A BABY GIRL (3 weeks to go), engage in more creative endeavors with my 2 year old son (taking notes from you), and surprise my husband with something wonderful for our 10 year anniversary next month (will be tricky with newborn and 2 year old in tow, but I am determined that it be great).
I want to go to there!! Isle of Capri-fection, indeed.
1. enjoy many days in the pool!
2. clean out old toys/junk to give away/sell in garage sale/ throw away
3. plan and execute the “sweetest lil party” for my big girl
bonus *must do*: HAVE said garage sale!! 😉
I would love to win!
1) read, read, read
2) lots of outside time
3) eat peaches
Amazing pictures! That little crab one is especially cool!
This makes me want to buy a nice camera SO badly!
Thanks for the cool post.
~Lucy
1. Dance in the rain!!!!
2. Watch the sunset.
3. Rock my precious grandbaby!!!
Who cares if nothing else gets done!
3 things I need to do this summer:
1. Enjoy one more “just the two of us” trips with my husband to Miami
2. Get the nursery ready
3. Connect with old friends
Easy: make popsicles, take long afternoon naps, & find the best hot dog in town.
Hmmm…this summer:
Eat more popsicles.
Handwash the car with the boys.
Finish Grayson’s 1 year scrapbook!
FYI- with all the popsicles ya’ll eat you should look into a Zoku. Its a popsicle maker, with a cool recipe book, that makes the popsicles in, wait for it, max of five minutes! My wee ones LOVE it.
Greetings from Delaware
How is it that you still look absolutely gorgeous covered in mud?
Oh, and you and I must be soul sisters because I would have totally jumped in after that dolphin.
Summer “to-do” lists are a favorite in our house. We make one for every season, so we don’t let the more timely activities that are unique to certain times of year here in New England pass us by. My six year old just began ours and I have one of my own as well:
1. Celebrate friendship with my bestest girls at our annual Cape Cod girls’ weekend;
2. Unplug as much as possible during my family’s beach vacation and try not to “plan” anything; and
3. Attend a local strawberry festival – where the littles make their own shortcakes and the bigs sip strawberry wine.
And the thing that pulled me in to feel it absolutely necessary to comment on this post? The sheer fact that you busted out an LFO reference at the end. Loves it. Have a beautiful summer and thanks for the reminders you provide to slow down and smell the roses… or the seaweed or the salt air… Much appreciated by this crazy lady.
I so remember that LFO song–it was the summer I got married that it was big. So funny how music can trigger memories. The other day my kids and I made a list of all the things we wanted to make sure we did this summer–My top 3 would be
1–Visit family in Oregon
2–Spend a week on the S. Carolina beaches
3–Immerse myself in a stack of good books checked out from our once a week library visits!
Love those beach picks–such fun memories you are creating!
These are SO cute!! love the butt and mud pics!
Three things:
1) Vacation to the beach
2) Enjoy the sunshine
3) stop worrying and live life.
1) Skip dinner and have ice cream with the kids instead
2) Sleep outside in a nice shady spot
3) Invite everyone over for a big BBQ — come one, come all!
3 Things I want (and will) do this summer are…
1. Finish Tatum’s first year scrapbook (since she’s THREE!)
2. Do some day trips to places we’ve never been.
3. Eat s’mores at least once a week…if not more…
love love love love LOVE nella’s pigtails!!! so jealous- my little girl’s hair is NOWHERE near ready for pigtails…. one day!!
3 must do summer things:
1. move back to arizona!!!! (no -40* winter this next year!! woo hoo!!!)
2. run through the sprinkler with my littles at least every other sunshiny day (if not EVERY sunshiny day!)
3. have an insane amount of outside get togethers and shared meals with friends and bonfires and everything that screams summer!!! 🙂
Love the pigtails!
1.Relax with my kiddos. Enjoy squirt guns, baby pools, parks.
2. Complete a triathlon.
3. Enjoy after dinner walks.
happy summer….whoop whoop! i totally remember that song…hehehe. three summer things….make smoothie popsicles and eat frozen blueberries, play more (inside and outside), go for family walks after dinner. ps. and have playdates with FRIENDS….like today! xo
1) Travel to San Antonio…for the CONVENTION!
2) Go to Disneyland with the kiddos…AGAIN!
3) Arrange a spa day just for ME 🙂
Always just adore your blog Kelle. Just plain AWESOME!
oh my, your girls are growing up! someday, i hope to visit the isle of capri. it looks amazing!
1. eat ice cream every day (we are on day 12 in a row!)
2. paint my 2 year old daughter’s toes
3. eat outside as much as possible.
I love her hair beads, too!
3 must-dos this summer:
1. Take my daughter to a place with rides which she LOVES
2. Spend as much time outside as possible
3. Have my 3rd baby 🙂
I love your fun! My top three must do’s this summer are:
After I get off work- help my daughter get back to rockstar status so when her charter school starts back in August she will be where she needs to be.
Have an amazing time at our one night only camping trip.
Learn to slow down.
I just signed up for my first 1/2 marathon.
So 3 things on my summer to do list:
1. Train train train.
2. Keep making improvements to our 127 year old house.
3. Spend a lot of time w/ friends!
This summer is busy for us, we need to sell our house, hubby graduates with his PhD, we need to get a job, and buy a new house, BUT I have goals for fun too!
1) Take the girls to the beach again because they keep asking to go back
2) Go to seaworld or another adventure park
3) Live in the moment and enjoy what little or more time we have left in this first house of ours..
Swim Lessons with my baby, hiking along the Kancamangus Highway, and too many Lobster Rolls!
Love your blog. PLEASE do tell where you got the girls adoroble name necklaces, would love them for my kids!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Have an old school lemonade sale with my littles.
-Last minute “to the woods” picnic.
-Swimming at the pool…in just a swimsuit, no shorts! I’ll be 30 this year and dang it, it’s time to get over it:)
Love the pigtails.
Wow, just 3 things I need to do this summer….1) Paint my bedroom and put up the beautiful curtains that I bought 2) Start going for a walk every day with the kids 3) Finsh my apothecary coffee table project. The girls are getting so big and they are beautiful!!
Laura
1. Detroit Tiger Game
2. Florida (house hunting)
3. Italy (30th Anniversary Trip)
hugs,
Margie
Nella in pigtails … an unprecedented level of cuteness!
Love that you have a Sunday spot. I wish we had somewhere magical to congregate with friends. I will have to start looking.
My three summer musts- the Kenny Chesney concert/family reunion with my mom and sisters, camping at the beach, and a birthday trip to Dutch Wonderland for my soon to be four year old!
Ah, this makes me want to leave work right now and enjoy the day!
My three things:
1. loose the baby weight!
2. go out with the girls
3. get rid of 100 things (a thing I do every year but haven’t started this year…recycle, sell, goodwill or trash)
Lay out by the pool, swim and eat ice cream!
I am new to this blogging world, but your pictures and stories are such an inspiration! Thank you for being so kind and sharing your life:)
Absolutely loving Nella’s pigtails!! x
Today is my 9 year wedding anniversary and my husband is golfing… it’s torrential storms… BUT I’m smiling because tomorrow is last day of school. HOLLA. Lord give me patience for one more day.
XOOOXOXOXOOOXOXOOXOXOOXOXOXOXOOXOO
Be in touch.
My 3 things:
1. Finally visit home for the 4th of July so I can see the babies and fireworks.
2. Horseback riding on the beach again.
3. Make my fiance some homemade ice cream.
1. Visit our grandson in NB, right on the other side of Canada
2. Celebrate my friend’s 60th birthday
3. Buy yummy peaches and pears and preserve them for winter eating
Thanks for asking!
OMG! I remember like it was yesterday, decorating my dorm and listening to that exact LFO song. I thought I was so cool planning where to put my blacklight so it reflected on my new posters just right. Those were they days! I have been planning a little drive down from Ft. Myers to check out the Isle of Capri…hopefully my toddler, husband and I will make it sooner rather than later. Take care and rock on!
I have two must-do lists, one that is necessity based and one that is just for fun 🙂
Need to:
1) Continue packing the house and move everything to storage.
2) Deep clean the house we are leaving.
3) Take 2 teaching exams for my MI teaching license and
For fun:
1) Walk to our farmer’s market and eat apple cider doughnuts.
2) Explore our new town (Ann Arbor) and find all kinds of great things to do, and
3) Love on my kid.
I lived on Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Brigadoon 😛
LFO 4-eva!
1. Take a sewing class so I can make more than just throw pillows
2. Join a yoga studio
3. Get my daughter potty trained lol
Love Nella’s pigtails!
My 3 things:
1. Have the best summer vacation ever (our kids have big age gaps…it’s getting harder)
2. Start and finish a sewing project
3. Sleep outside in a tent in our backyard
🙂
Hello!
So kind this idea!
I and my 3 girls
this summer I will:
1. have a picnic at night and see the stars
2. do Strawberries and blackberry jam that we cacht
3. teach y girls how to knit.
I hope I´ve lucky
Maria Antonia Forjaz
maf@math.uminho.pt
Love your new purse and the pics are so fun! You have beautiful friends too!
This summer I really want to:
Enjoy the heck out of what might be our last family summer at the lake!
Get all the junky drawers and cupboards cleaned out each time we have a rainy day.
Get some exercise and feel good about starting the second half of life when I turn 50 next winter!
Love your blog, you are such a neat picture-taker! Where did you get that super cute “Happy Go Lucky” shirt? Love it!
Thanks – Stacey
csfish@roadrunner.com
1. Take more pictures
2. Take my son on his first camping trip and first boat ride
3. Go to the free summer concerts held in my town every Wednesday night
I also want to add a 4th, go to some splash pads!
Finish some pages in our baby scrap-books, paint more, and get a great tan (naturally)
Love the post as always. 3 things I want to do…
1. Actually have a real family vacation. We half do it usually, but my almost 8 year old wants something grand and I love the thought… so I’ve been planning to make it fun while still keep us not breaking the bank.
2. Leave work when I leave work. Go spend those summer hours enjoying my kiddos and doing whatever feels right for us, without constantly checking the black(crack)berry.
3. Eat lighter. I fail at diets, but can make better food choices and feel better.
Three must to-do’s for summer are:
#1 Take my son to the beach for the first time!
#2 Have an over-due girls night
#3 Hit the 10-mile mark by summer’s end (I’m training for a half marathon)
Loving your blog! xoxo Jess
That last picture of Nella is sure to keep me smiling for the rest of the week! Such a precious face!
Anyway, three things on my must-do summer list are –
1. Dance in the rain on a hot summer day with my 2-year-old adventurer
2. Attempt to get a suntan instead of a sunburn
3. Take as many pictures of my beautiful family as I can get away with
My summer to-dos:
1) Defend Ph.D.
2) Find a real job
3) Picnics with my two sons
Looks like you all are enjoying the start of summer, can’t wait for it to hit up North!
This summer I want to:
1) read a book a week
2) stick to my workout routine
3) get pregnant!
since we’ll be heading to seattle (from maryland) i want to make a big deal of dipping our feet in both the atlantic and the pacific. my firstborn and i are planning a magnificent trip to forks for some twi-harding. and i think homemade ice cream is on the summer menu! “summer, summer, summertime!!!” (love will smith!)
Hahaha loved the sweet little buttcheeks!
1. Go to the beach lots with friends (except on our beach in June we wear coats and hats, haha)
2. Put up lots of canned and frozen salmon
3. Visit Pick wild blueberries and make blueberry jam.
The three things on my summer must-do list are…
1. Have a totally amazing time at the beach…celebrating Piper’s frist birthday in the surf and sand.
2. Start another writing project.
3. Save a few hundred bucks….
I’m in love with your blog…it’s such a bright light in my day, thanks so much!!!
I love your blog. That’s all I have to say.
1. Get outside as much as possible
2. Get the spare room finished (painted and decorated).
3. Play with my son every day.
Eat ice cream every day
Read a few good summer novels
Play play play!
I about peed my paints when I hit the link for this song & it was LFO!
So 3 things for this summer…
1. Take Baby Girl on her first beach vacay.
2.Make summer desserts.
3.Take lots of pictures of my little ginger baby.
1. Run down Sleeping Bear Dunes with my girls 2. Go to Cedar Point for the first time in years and 3.Get ice cream at Eva’s. Love Michigan summers!!
1. Explore the ‘Sunken Forest’ on Fire Island, NY with the kiddos. Something I’ve been wanting to do.
2. Wear my beautiful new bright pink sundress. I never buy clothes in pink. But its such a fun and happy beachy dress!
3. Pack a mean picnic and head to the Long Island wineries with the fam. Bliss…
1. Read mindless and entertaining books (two down already this month!)
2. Take some time off of work to recoup and not spend the day catching up on chores.
3. Go to my mom’s and just sit and put a puzzle together with her.
BTW – the little buns pictures made me laugh right out loud! Love it – there’s nothing cuter than baby buns!
Farmers market, lake, and maybe get around to cleaning my house so we can sell it!
Love the IOC mudbaths! What fun.
My summer top three:
1- Make sandcastles with my boys at the beach
2- Lace up my walking shoes & get back to my exercise routine.
3- Treat myself to a pedicure or facial or both!
Oh, Kelle, you so inspire me. I don’t know what I would do of I didn’t get my weekly “enjoying the small things” fix. I love, love, love summer and I love, love, love making a summer-to-do list. I love it so much that I even had my first graders make a list of things to do this summer. Talk about inspiring! Here’s my top 3 things I want to do this summer:
1. Bike around Mackinac Island with my hubby and kids
2. Have a picnic and use that fancy picnic blanket unjust bought for the occasion
3. Catch fireflies with my kids – haven’t seen any in years, but I’m on a mission!
Have a great summer, Kelle!
Oh and one more thing – have a party with my kids on the first day of summer – celebrating the longest day from sunrise to sunset!
Oh, Kelle, you so inspire me. I don’t know what I would do of I didn’t get my weekly “enjoying the small things” fix. I love, love, love summer and I love, love, love making a summer-to-do list. I love it so much that I even had my first graders make a list of things to do this summer. Talk about inspiring! Here’s my top 3 things I want to do this summer:
1. Bike around Mackinac Island with my hubby and kids
2. Have a picnic and use that fancy picnic blanket unjust bought for the occasion
3. Catch fireflies with my kids – haven’t seen any in years, but I’m on a mission!
Have a great summer, Kelle!
Oh and one more thing – have a party with my kids on the first day of summer – celebrating the longest day from sunrise to sunset!
1.take my kids to the beach every week 2.get really familiar with lightroom and the canon 30D (thank you for helping Kenz decide:)) 3.get some fabulous new recipes for the grill.
p.s. love nella’s pigtails, and if you have any tips for where to find tiny hair ties that stay in please share:)
Summer to do:
1. ICE CREAM……..Take advantage of the abundance of ice cream shops around us….free baby cones at Breuster’s…..Sweet Frog……oh, and chase down the ice cream truck guy in the neighborhood when I hear the circus music.
2. Help my 2 year old learn the art of playing hookie early.
3. Weekly dates with this stud muffin sitting next to me….that I happen to be married to.
Love your updates. You inspire me, woman!
3 things:
Take after-dinner walks with my husband and pooch.
Keep a really great tan.
Roadtrip with the windows down!
Three things on my must do list for this time of year (we’re in Winter where I live)1 Go for some brisk walks with scenic views.2 Have an Audrey Hepburn double feature movie night with some friends 3.Buy a very attractive umbrella that I enjoy using!
I love your blog. It is so inspiring just to live life. I don’t even have kiddos & I love love love reading. You should consider penning a novel, you are great at writing! 🙂
Have a wonderful week!
As taken from my “Summer 2011 Bucket List” posted on the side of my fridge:
1. Strawberry picking
2. Finish my yearly Father’s Day Video Montage, for my husband
3. Visit my brother in Tuscaloosa.
What an awesome weekend! Flea market finds and a day at the beach. My summer must do list includes (1) first family camping trip with our 2 y.o. Sean (DS) and 5 y.o. Paige (wish me luck) (2) planning a date once a month AND executing said plan and finally (3) at least one trip to an amusement park with the fam-a-lam. Yay!
That bag is a fantastic find!
This summer, I want to:
1. Go to Whole Foods for the first time, and hopefully find gluten-free, casein-free pizza crust and cheese so my food allergic little man can have pizza.
2. Kiss my baby 390850 times while being grateful for a summer vacation that allows me to do so.
3. Practice yoga so much that it becomes a non-negotiable part of my weekly routine.
Must go to Lake Lansing and rent a paddle boat.
Must take a spontaneous walk with all the kids late one night when there’s a full moon.
Must have bonfires. 🙂
Got my cup of tea and your blog – instant inspriation! Also the only way I can get my little girl to wear pigtails is to show her Laineys! Go figure!!! Thanks so much 🙂 Also – where are Lainey’s little red t-bars from? Have been hunting for some just like that!
1. Take more pictures!
2. Walk to my grandfather’s (90yo)and Dad’s house with my daughter
(1.5 yo) and spend some time with MY Papaw! (My daughter would argue with me on that one!!)
3. Visit my mom in Reno! Looking for plane tickets now!
One more…plan my daughters 2nd birthday party!!! (October! Got to plan early!)
Three musts for the summer:
1. buy an expensive fudgesicle from the ice cream man
2. put on a bathing suit even if I am uncomfortable doing so
3. Make salsa from my own tomatoes
Beautiful blog, gorgeous post…so glad I found you 🙂
Ooohh… let’s see… I appreciate that this is making me actually set goals!!!
1) Take better advantage of the summer outdoor films in DC (which I say every year and fail at)
2) Attempt to refinish this chair that I’ve been meaning to do since, uhh, January and
3) Catch up on some reading!!! : )
Oh LFO! Back in middle school, me and some girlfriends saw them in concert in West Palm Beach. After the show, we followed their tour bus up I-95 and got to hang out with them at a Burger King!
This summer I will:
1. Learn the art of white-water kayaking.
2. Take a beach trip with my best gal-pals.
3. Have a magical 5th anniversary with my hubby in the mountains on July 2nd 🙂
My summer to-do list
1)Cuddle with my newborn (due in 4 days!!!)
2)Enjoy my BFF’s wedding festivities
3)Meet new moms!
Great pics!
1) Go to the pool lots
2) Do some canning
3) Go to Farmer’s markets every week
“I’m going with dolphin because this story isn’t very good without that spectacular conclusion..” Rolling laughing. This is the funniest line you have ever written!!
LFO brings back good memories 🙂
three things to do this summer
1. take my baby girl to the zoo, aquarium, and to the beach in Chicago
2. get a tan
3. lose baby weight!
1. Pack up house in Seattle
2. Visit my sister in Philly, PA
3. Move to Denmark
Can I please go with you to the beach? I’m jealous but only 2.5 wks until we’re in sunny Hilton Head Island, SC:0) Oh and that Nella – I just want to scoop her up and give her a hug. Just precious!!
Okay my 3 must-do’s this year:
1.) POOL!!! My 14 mos old is taking swim lessons (parent/tot). I want him to get used to the water so it’s never traumatic. Plus he loves watching the big kids!
2.) Go to the zoo!! I can’t wait to see him look at all those animals.
3.) Love on my baby as much as possible before school starts up again!! I love my baby boy love!
Have a great week!!
summer list
-swimming
-barbeque
-eat a lot of watermelon
Fun post! And darling outfits! Thee must do things for us:
1) Organize the garage…it is a disaster!
2) Bike on the Kealia Trail as an entire family (daddy included!)
3) Get to the beach at least twice a week…hopefully three!
Hmmm-3 things to do this summer
1. Vacation with the extended family in June
2.Volunteer somewhere totally out of my comfort zone
3. Train to run a race – never done it before!
Love those Nella pictures! One thing I want to do is learn how to take some fuzzy background pictures with my new dslr 🙂 Secondly, lots of water time. It doesn’t matter if the pruned fingertips come from lake, sprinkler or pool water. I just want to hear the giggles that come with them. Lastly, I want to sit outside after the kids are in bed and have uninterrupted conversation with my husband over a glass of wine.
Teach the littles to swim, ages 3 and 2, have more outside park time, and just DO
1. Finish baby quilt
2. Get house ready for new baby
3. Have baby #2 in 5 weeks, give or take!
1. Go blueberry or strawberry picking with the kids.
2. Visit my best friend in South Carolina.
3. Go to a baseball game with the family.
1) I must get to Key West as fast as I can (even if it’s only for 3 days and not 3 weeks!)
2) Get my baby girl into her first itty bitty bathing suit and stick her toes in the water (all to be caught on camera, of course!)
3) Stick my toes in the sand with my bestie while we sit on our blanket drinking margaritas or mimosas and watching the sunset
1. Morning walks with the kids.
2. Learning to cook new, I-don’t-know-how-to-cook-this-or-even-what-it-is foods from our CSA.
3. Getting back my body and my house–i.e., losing weight, getting rid of stuff, and organizing.
Wow, so many great pics this post! Loving the pig tails 🙂
I adore your blog and they way you write.
I just HAD to comment as I was just singing this song the other day as it reminded me of being home from college as well. I shared this entry with my 2 best girlfriends as we listed to this song all summer – living carefree and responsibility free.
1. take my daughter for a walk on the beach at sunset.
2. camp in a tent
3. visit our family back home
OMG I seriously love Nella’s piggies. She’s looking so much older in those pics. But still just as cute and lovable. 🙂
E again. I already posted a comment a few hundred posts ago about this blog, but am posting today about your mamalode article. Finally read it last night…and it was wonderful, simply magical words. Kelle, you have soooo got motherhood. Rock on with your bad self.
Write an new post! Im craving one!
-pick blueberries
-go to the beach
-make crafts!
1. Sleep in until at least 10:00
2. Learn how to do the perfect dive.
3. Be carefree and live for one day not the next.
LFO rocks!!! I always loved that song!
My top 3 summer must do’s:
1) take the kiddos to Kings Island
2) cruise the river in the boat on lazy Sunday afternoons
3) get the bedrooms moved around and redecorated for the kids. Lots of moving, but awesome decorating ideas floating in the mommy’s head!
Love the June pigtails, I’ll have to give my girlie some today! Have a great one!
Your posts literally brighten my work days Kelle, thank you!!
Okay my 3 Summertime Goals:
1.) Getting my girl’s confidence at an all time high! She had 2 major surgeries on her face and is starting preschool in September. I am going to add in a few MORE “You are beautiful inside and out’s” each night.
2.) Finding new exciting places to walk. Whether it be in the city where I live or the more laid back park by my parent’s house.
3.) Allowing the kids to get messy without freaking out! More drippy popsicles, sand castles and ketchup covered faces 🙂
This was a fun list to make!
Tara
1. Love little girls’ butts in swimsuits!!!
2. You got the YELLOW SWIMSUIT muddy?? ACK!
3. I used to write for Tea Collection …. LOVE LOVE LOVE their clothes!!
4. Do you seriously read each and every one of your 500-1,000 comments?? Craziness!
I can’t believe I just found your blog…you grew up on musicals too?!
My summer must do:
Finish writing 1 book
Do my first 10 mi run
Move for the 32nd time
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go yard saleing!
beach it as often as i can
kiss my 3 sweet girls
fly a kite.
backyard camp out.
back cookies from scratch.
🙂
#1 Go on our first family camping trip
#2 More concerts in the Park
#3 Can all our roma tomatoes and make jams for the following winter
Love summer!!!
Must do’s this summer for this MN gal…#1 go to the lake as much as possible, afterall–we have 10,000 of them 🙂 We do an annual resort vacation with my whole family every year. We used to do it when I was a kid…and I LOVE it now that my kids look forward to it as well.
#2 frequent trips to the nearby water parks with the kiddos
#3 work on getting my white pasty butt a nice glowing tan 🙂
1. complete C25K…couch to 5K…obviously a trick to make me want to exercise.
2. finish three in progress quilts.
3. take time to enjoy each day
1. Marry the man of my dreams
2. Take time each day to soak it in
3. Visit the mountains, relish in their beauty!
xo Love your blogs! Best ever!!
!. Eat lots of popsicles
2. Swim til we prune up
3. Stay up late and snuggle with the kiddos
1. Become a runner, need to since I signed up for a 5K in September.
2. Take the kids on day trip to the beach by myself.
3. Have a neighborhood campfire with smores and singing.
Three things on my must do list this summer:
1) Swimming! Lots and Lots of SWIMMING!
2) Hit the beach as much as possible!
3) Win one of your contests!! 😉
Must do-
(1) Paint/decorate my master bedroom
(2) spend as much time possible with my beautiful baby girl
(3) fall more in love with my husband
my husband and I want to take the kids to marine land this year. We have already checked off the zoo for this year.
My summer-to-do-list:
1. Swim every moment possible with my 3 lovies
2. Teach each child a new chore, to help out around the house more
3. Family vaca to a local Holiday World theme park…..
Your comment about only being able to watch wholesome musicals including Disney movies that starred Kurt Russel as a child made me laugh. Our rules were the same when I was a child. I’m sure we watched all the same movies. I’m not completely complaining though…I still love many of those musicals. Well, I could do without Family Band. 🙂
i absolutely love your pics – every time!
my 3 must do this summer:
teach kids to ride w/o training wheels
go camping
finish all my spray painting projects LOL
1. Visit the Summer Time Market in Douglas.
2. Make a cherry pie.
3. Stay at the cottage so long that I forget the status of my laundry at home.
Oh my goodness I LOVE your pictures! Your girls are to die for they are so cute.
And oh my how fit u are, cant ever guess uve had your latest child only a few months ago. inspirational that is what you are.
My summer list includes
1.playing catch with my son in the park once he learns to run (should be soon)
2.take him to the zoo. he loves animals
3.enjoy at least 4 nights out with my husband ( we live in sweden far from all family,so whenever we have visitors in the summer we have to take the oportunity to go out on our own
MY FAVORITE SHOES!!! My ANGEL is now 16, but she had those shoes in several colors. I love that they stamped ANGEL when she walked. I think all little kid’s shoes should stamp ANGEL (Boy’s shoes too). 3 Summer WANTS TO DO- Ride my bike, plan our first KID Summer B’Day party (3rd angel a summer b’day), and now find a Flea Market. Forgot how much I missed them til’ I saw your post. P.S. love love love the sand mouth pics.
Love your pictures! Beautiful! 🙂
1. Decorate baby room! Finding out the sex next week….Yea!
2. Travel with family!
3. Go on a walk EVERY NIGHT!
Oh my goodness you just took me back a few years with that song! I loved it!!! All of these pictures are adorable, love the pigtails!
Love the vintage purse, what a great find!
My 3 summer to do’s:
1) See more sunsets, nothing more relaxing.
2) Take more bike rides on the beach.
3) Take our little guy fishing with the new pole he just got for his birthday.
Keep enjoying your summer.
NeeNee
Ok.. so I don’t normally comment on your posts, even tho I adore all your words and photos… but I don’t because seriously – 550 comments, how could mine stand out!!! Ha… damn you are loved 😉 so cool!
But I could not pass up Seven Brides for Seven Brothers… totally my favorite and all time go to movie!!! My college friends to this day give me jabs about how much I love this movie and that I made them sit thru it, ha!!! I just thought it was movie scripted genius to have a 7 dudes and 7 girls that all fit together and some how fall in love… random but cinema love story perfection in my book!!!!
Thanks for your wonderful blog, it is truly my favorite!!!!
Abbey abbey-amomentspeace@blogspot.com
3 things on summer to-do list:
1)Play in the pool as much as I can with my baby.
2)Enjoy the free concert series in our towns local park.
3)Mama play groups
1) FINALLY take my 4 kids to the beach
2) GO SEE THE NEW WINNIE THE pOOH MOVIE
3) learn sign language
also, I must have hit caps lock, number two is not more important the the others. But I am too lazy to go back and re-type it~
Love your posts Kelle, as usual.
*a lemonade stand with my littles
*a sail boat ride in the bay (Chesapeake) with my love
*and a day crabbing with my littles and my love
Thanks for sharing your weekend with us.
love from Annapolis, MD
Three things?
attempt to take all six kids to the farmers market by myself
make kiddo # 4 dream come true by riding a horsey
get ready for # 7 (gulp)
Swimming, lots of it. Farmers markets and relaxation!!
Oh my, push up pops! Totally remember those! Absolutely loving your photos of late-so unique and gorgeous.
We have lots on our summer to do list, but top 3 are strawberry picking, beach vacation and backyard campout.
Must-do summer list:
1. go on a REAL vacation
2. seriously need to get the vacuum into the hard to reach spots under the bed and battle the dust bunnies
3. get my driver’s license renewed – new picture this time – looking forward to handing it to people and not having to say, “That was when I was fat.”
LOVE the last pic of Nella
1. go to an old fashioned drive in movie
2. go kayaking as much as possible
3. spend as much time in the water with my little one!
1) strawberry picking with 18mo old with camera in hand
2) ice cream 🙂
3) laying under the apple tree with my hubby
Not too long ago, Just Ducky asked consultants to name 3 blogs that we liked and I mentioned yours! I guess it worked! What a great company and fabulous clothes!!
get soft serve at the local ice cream parlor
eat tomatoes fresh out of the garden
watch the fireworks
All must-dos on my summer list
1. Sleep in with the kids.
2. relax, rest and enjoy
3. REPEAT ALL THE ABOVE 🙂
three things for summer?
1. visit the isle of capri! I live in Ft.Myers and have never been there and reading your blog, seeing you pics has inspired me!
2. kayak at lovers key with my girls I nanny
3. make little things an adventure,everyday.
Go blonder, naturally and fake!
Fit in plenty of kid friendly water time.
Pray that I can have some patience as Gibson throws a tantrum.
Best butt wedge ever in one of those pictures!
I’m a momma runner too! I ran before kids and now I enjoy it even more. The one thing I used to hate about running was how quiet it was without headphones…now that’s the thing I LOVE the most about it! It makes me a better mom and keeps my butthigh in shape:)
oh my gosh. what a great blog! i’m so happy i stumbled upon it! you are so inspirational! if you get the chance to check out my blog i would LOVE your opinons on it. 🙂
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fireworks
campout with random children from neighborhood
beach?
Hmmm…my three things for the summer.
1. Start exercising (any form)
2. Try one new recipe a week
3. Spend as much time outside as I can!
Love all the photos…the more the merrier is almost always true! You have a great village.
My summer to do list:
1) Have a gathering at my home.
2) Enjoy some water (even if only for a day) and at a lake or water park.
3) Eat lots of yummy frozen yogurt or ice cream in the Arizona sun! 🙂
I’ve been so busy working this week that I got behind on your blog. It’s kind of thrilling to have more than one entry to read:)
I laughed so much about that summer girls song. I’d forgotten all about it! I love how he keeps biting his lower lip in the video, trying to be all coy and cute. You know we thought it was back then, but it’s so silly and corny now:)
1. I MUST VISIT THE ISLE OF CAPRI!!
2. I will relax more. Work less
3. Take more photos!
Thanks for the inspiration 🙂
Amy
First of all, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers was my absolute favorite movie growing up! Secondly, I love the pigtails 🙂 And for my three things this summer – I would have to say a trip through wine country, a trip to the beach and a day in the city (we’re moving at the end of the summer so I’m trying to get a taste of all the things we’re leaving behind 😉 )
Is it awful to STILL love LFO! Haha! Whenever I hear them on the radio, which is extremely rare, a giddy smile takes over! Good memories! Wish we had beach in LV…we just get the desert heat! Soak it up! I’m jeal!
Last picture of Nella smiling…..absolute money! Made my day! 🙂
Perhaps it’s because famous people from MI are few and far between this post made me giggle. Yep, you’re famous in my book. And the thought of you possibly being at Courtland Center at the exact same time as I might have been there? NUTS. My mom works at the Old Country Buffet thats STILL there. Hell, she might have been there the day you stopped by the mall 🙂 I haven’t been able to read your blog for weeks because we are FINALLY moving from this fine state to NC! And once my husband gives his notice, and we are finally moved, I can not wait to post about it 🙂
Must start yoga back up, must make time to hang out with each of my children individually and must drink more margaritas. If so, then this summer will be “fly” (stealing a word from your 12-year-ago-self, I presume 😉
Paint my kitchen table, play more with the kids,start runing again.
Have seriously had that LFO song stuck in my head since I read the post days and days ago, finally said I have enough and loaded up a new pandora station based of LFO’s Summer Girls. Thanks for the memories.
That last shot of Nella is my absolute f.a.v.o.r.i.t.e.