Update on getting fun things done!

Things we want to do this summer...the kids and I came up with this list.  We will add to it as we figure out more fun we want to have!!

We thought it would be fun to keep track on the blog!  Maybe we will see how much we accomplish and make it through the whole list!!  Here goes...

go to South Padre

  -Schlitterbahn in Padre

  -turtle rescue

  -Pirate Ship Cruise  (it rained the last 2 days we were there and so we didn't get to do this)

Schlitterbahn in Galveston

Natural History Museum

Astros Game...one  two  three

Drive-In Movies

send Kailee to Girls Camp

paint the Laundry Room

get the boys beds painted

get vinyl finished for Ty & Kyler's room

Pirate's Bay in Baytown

get Kailee into and through Driver's Ed....which also means I have to add

get Kailee her driver's permit

see all the movies on our list

  Transformers 3

  Mr. Popper's Penguins

  Cars 2

  Zookeeper

  Monte Carlo

  Kung Fu Panda 2

  Harry Potter

  Pirates of the Caribbean

  Soul Surfer

  Captain America

  The Smurfs

  X-Men First Class

send Austin on High Adventure

Shawn to take the boys camping or canoeing

Ty & Kyler going to OLC Camp

Kailee and Austin going to EFY

go to the Car Races

go to Ritter's

take the kids up to the temple grounds and have a picnic lunch

clean out and organize the closet under the stairs (if nothing else happens but this I will consider it a successful summer)

get Austin's wisdom teeth pulled  (in the process of)

get Austin's braces on

everyone needs their teeth cleaned  (appts made!)

have a read in

go to a concert

lots and lots of swimming  (we are doing great with this one!)

Miller Outdoor Theater
zoo

go boating at Lake Conroe

Finally Friends!!!!!

Miss Abigail (check out that awesome red gatorade 'stache) and Shawners and Miss Madaloonie

They kept bringing him book after book

Playing games on the recliner....the girls loved it!!

Leah came over one night while the big kids were all at a fireside.  We hung out and chatted and Shawners kept these two cuties entertained for quite some time!  Shawn has been trying for a while to get these 2 sweet girls to be his friend!  I think he has turned the corner....he made friends for life!  His goal now is to get them to call him Brother Awesome!  :o) 

EFY

 Kailee and Sarah Dailey

 Austin and Josh Lund

Leah and I drove the kids to EFY on the 4th of July.  It's in San Antonio at Trinity University.  The kids were very excited!  I have heard from them a few times already and they are having a fantastic time!!!!  Leah and I got to hang out, chat, have lunch...it truly was "Independence" Day for us!  It was so fun to spend the day with a great friend!

NKOTBSB (round 2)

 Jordan Knight...he was my biggest crush!  (still pretty cute)

 Joey McIntyre

We had a moment...he looked at me for about 5 seconds at the end of a song while he was holding his pose...after he broke pose he smiled at me!

Brian was a ham!  He was the most fun with the audience!  He posed for a picture for me (it didn't turn out) and smiled and waved alot!

AJ

Donnie Wahlberg always takes his shirt off!  He sang Cover Girl and then threw his tank into the audience!

Jordan and I did indeed have a moment!!!  He blew a kiss at me and smiled!  I melted...all my teenage girl dreams came true!  I can die now and be completely happy and content!!!  :o)

Danny Wood....man that guy has HUGE arms!

Jon Knight

Nick Carter

Howie...he reached out and touched my hand!!!!

 So I did something a little crazy and super impulsive!!  I bought a FRONT row ticket to the NKOTBSB concert in San Antonio 3 1/2 hours before the concert was set to start!  There was one seat not taken and it was FRONT row!  How could I pass that up??!!!  I don't know if I would've done it if Kailee hasn't have helped talk me into it!  She was telling me, "Mom you will never forgive yourself...What if you and Jordan have a moment...You have to go....It will be awesome!"  She is such a good girl...what would I do without her!  :o)  So I jumped into the car at 5:00pm...drove to the AT&T Center watched the best concert ever for the second time (I had gone 3 days before here in Houston) and then drove straight home when it was over.  I got home at 2:07AM.  I didn't even yawn till I hit Brookshire! I was on a high from the show and rockin' out to music the whole way home!

Goodbye Vacation...

 What a fun and super relaxing vacation we had!!!  I am missing the "doing nothing without feeling guilty feeling" already!  Can't wait till we can go back and do it all over again!  :o)

South Padre 2011

 Fun at the pool on our first night there

 baby sea turtles being released

 making sure the beach umbrella will be secure

 poor Kyler...the crabs just love his toes!  this is the second time at the beach that a little crab has pinched on to his toes and Shawn had to pry it off!

 coming to tell mom about it!

 they LOVE to dig in the sand!!!!!!

 Kyler, Austin and Kailee really liked boogie boarding!  Kyler rode the waves in a handful of times!

 We took lessons on how to build sandcastles!  I have to say we are all experts now!!  It was so much fun!!!  It was 3 of the 4 kids most favorite thing we did on vacation!  David was our instructor/teacher!  He was awesome...so much fun!!!!  Shawn is our Sand Castle Master...he is quite talented!!!

 David was super impressed with Shawn's...he couldn't believe that Shawn got it so tall on his first try without it falling over! 

Tara's finished castle

Austin's castle...not quite finished

 Ty's castle/village....the people watching said it looked like houses from the Flinstones!

 Shawn's masterpiece

 dinner at the Big Donkey...some of the best Mexican food ever!

 hangin' out getting ready to watch fireworks!

 the view from the balcony

 looking down to the pool from the balcony

 we spent one day at Schilitterbahn!  It was soooooo fun!  It was dead so we basically had the park to ourselves, it was awesome!!!

 sunrise

oops, he put his suit on backwards!

storm rolling in