Top 10 Photos from May

Can you believe it’s June already? Our summer is just around the corner with only two weeks left of MM’s first school year – I feel like I say this a lot, but the month really flew by. My pictures lately have been largely cell phone snapshots due partly to laziness and partly to my recent infatuation with instagram (for better or worse). Here are 10 of my favorite shots from the month of May.

extra: on the inside, looking out... on 365 Project

an Instagram pic of the little miss peeking out the window of our local Target Starbucks. She loves the giant circle windows and considers them a far superior seat to the actualy chairs. Wouldn’t it be cool to have windows like that in your home?

more: My boy. on 365 Project

My dapper little boy is obsessed with his sweater vest. Sometimes he’ll pair it with a cute button up like this and be absolutely adorable but other times he wants to wear it with running pants and a t-shirt in 90 degree weather and it’s not so cute. But here in this shot? So cute.

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) on 365 Project

MM made this for me at school for Mothers Day. I may have swooned a little a lot.

Beauty. on 365 Project

I took this snapshot of BB with my cell phone while we were sitting at the park watching boats in the water. It’s a little washed out, but so stunning. I love this picture.

Signs of a fun day. on 365 Project

My cheeky little monkey after a morning at his school’s fun fair. Green hair, a puppy painted on his face and belly full of cotton candy. I’m pretty sure life doesn’t get better than that. And I narrowly escaped coming home with a goldfish, so I was pretty happy, too!

That gorgeous girl of mine. on 365 Project

Seriously.

more: nature walk. on 365 Project

A collage of pretty flower pics taken at our local botanical gardens. I couldn’t choose just one shot, so a collage was clearly in order.

Here comes the sun. on 365 Project

One of the pictures showcased on it’s own later when I needed a filler shot. Pretty, no?

My girl. on 365 Project

Another stunning shot of Little BB – a quick snapshot while I was taking pictures of my new flowers. Per usual, she was prettier than the flowers.

extra: a pop of color on 365 Project

The flowers in question. Which one do you think the camera favored? ;O)

Here were my Top Photos from JanuaryFebruary, March and April.

Our 2012 Summer Bucket List!

our summer bucket list

Last week I told you about the  Happy Family Movement’s 2012 Summer Bucket List Challenge where you can make a bucket list with your family and then link up with the Happy Family Movement to find great ideas for a fun and memorable summer and even win prizes in weekly drawings.

Happy Family Movement's Summer Bucket List ChallengeI sat down with Dan and the kids and we made a list of all the things we wanted to do this summer, writing down our ideas on colorful index cards in warm, summer colors. Then I found a large piece of cardboard (an old frozen pizza box actually – reduce, reuse, right?) and taped each card to the box and pinned it on our family bulletin board where we put calendars, lunch menus and school projects during the school year. Now each morning while we eat breakfast we can look at our list and decide what we’d like to do that day.

Our list includes ideas like:

breaking out the sprinkler, slip and slide or pool on a hot day ; going to a Mallards game, camping or flying a kite ; fishing, visiting family in MA (yay!) and going to the splash pad (a playground with sprinklers) ; getting ice cream from the ice cream truck, going to the playground, watching the sunset (or sunrise?) ; catch lightning bugs, go berry picking, have a lemonade stand ; make s’mores, watch fireworks, go to the beach ; go to the zoo, have a water gun fight and complete the Summer Reading Challenge again at our local library.

I tried to keep it simple with a lot of things I know we’ll do and would want to do on any given summer day, but threw in a few fun things that we haven’t done yet like going to a Mallards game together or catching lightning bugs and having a lemonade stand. I even put my money where my mouth was and bought tickets for a Mallards game so that we have no excuse not to go!

My son still has two weeks left of school, but thanks to our bucket list and the warm weather, we’re all looking forward to a funtastic summer together! What are your plans for this summer?