2011 Summer Bucket List

I got this idea from another blog, however, I have been thinking of documenting such thing for days---but this is much cuter!  :-)  Here they are in random order:  (although I am sure I will be adding as I remember)

1. Go to Las Vegas!  (date set! :-)
2. Organize my craft room
3.  Plant a small herb/flower garden to hang off my deck
4. Take the kids to the beach for the day
5. Take the kids to the Children's Museum (Lauren had been begging for a year!)
6. Partake in the "free movie days" at the local theater
7. Lose, at least, 20 lbs
8. Spend 1 full week at my Mom's Lake House with kids
9. Secure a new babysitter and make a regularly-planned date nights with my husband
10. Let my kids grow their hair out, even if the long-shaggy look bugs the crud out of me
11. Organize the garage for my husband, so he can do his beloved wood working
12. Learn how to use my sewing machine in above stated "newly organized" craft room
13. Go to the zoo with the kids and not be annoyed because I do not like the zoo
14. Pay off all of our credit card debt (which should be done by July!! :-))
15. Obstain from buying my kids anymore summer clothes--and instead just do more laundry
16. Teach my older kids to ride bikes
17. Sign them up for at least 2 extra curricular activities this summer
18. Go one full week without any drive thru/fast food
19. Talk my husband into allowing the kids to have a trampoline
20. Enjoy a weird/special show or fair  (one time we went to a tractor show.. it was fun!)
21. Go Berry picking and make our seasonal jam
22. Get my husband a new grill so he can cook at least 3 nights a week ;-)
23. Make a dream board to hang in my bathroom to view everyday
24. Go on a bug hunt with my kids
25. Get our deck painted (our house if I feel ambitious!)
26. Family day to the Amusement Park that is not too far from us
27. Take my loud kids to the library
28. Completely break my baby of watching Barney! :-)
29. Get my kids an amphibean (frog/lizard/etc)
30. One day without TV/phone/computer/Facebook/Blogging/Email.......
31. Organize and use my label maker to clean out and label my kitchen cabinets