Hey all! It’s been quite a while since my last post, but I’ve been super busy making the most of these wonderful summer days with my kiddos! Once we finish our school year and get back from our family vacation, we like to run wild and do all sorts of things together as well as with our friends.
This year, my older kids are all working hard, so, my youngest three and I made a summer bucket list of all the things we should do during our months of doing anything and everything we want! These last two weeks they’ve been attending their favorite summer camp, so I finally have a chance to sit down and share with you what our summer looks like so far this year.
We checked off the first item on our list with a visit to the boathouse to see my parents where we kayaked and played in the Choptank River. We’ll be going back a few times this summer for sure, since we all have a ton of fun there!
Next, we decided to visit a sunflower maze. It was incredibly hot, but it was really awesome walking through nearly 6 acres of sunflowers towering over our heads. Since the maze was over 2 hours from home, we decided to have a little fun at lunchtime and visit a 50’s diner!
Going to the beach with our friends is always a favorite! We like to go to Towers Beach near Rehoboth, Delaware. They have a great bathhouse complete with showers and changing rooms. We moms sit on the beach for hours and hours while all our kids ride waves, build castles, dig for sand crabs and get sunburned! We pack up around 5 p.m. and then head to the boardwalk in Rehoboth before heading home.
Everyone in my family is a huge Marvel fan, so when we heard that the new Spider-Man movie was coming out this summer, we knew that that absolutely had to be on our bucket list! Marvel didn’t disappoint, and we all had a great time at the theater together. A plus for this activity was that my daughter, Amanda, was able to join us!
The 4th of July is always a blast for us. We get to be a part of a float in the annual parade in Kingsville. We help to represent the Beachmont Corn Maze. The only down side of the parade, is that it’s usually about a million degrees out and we all get REALLY hot wearing costumes and standing out in the hot sun waiting for the parade to start. Once the parade starts, though, we all get to march down the middle of the road waving and smiling and handing out candy and brochures telling people about this year’s upcoming maze.
Our picnic on the 4th always ends in tons of home made ice cream. I posted the recipe last year if you want to check it out. I made a new flavor this year that was amazing! Raspberry Chocolate Truffle. Yummy! Unfortunately, the schedule that week was so crowded that I was on my own making the ice cream this year, BUT everyone definitely got to eat it!
During the week of the 4th, my daughter came up to visit from Florida with some of her friends. We chose this time to check off having crabs for lunch! If you’ve not eaten Maryland crabs, you’ve not eaten crabs. Am I right??? The friends were impressed and we all had a great time picking crabs and hanging out together. I do love me some crabs!
We got to check two thing off of our list last week that has been an annual tradition for a really long time. The first one is dressing up like cows for Chick-Fil-A’s Cow Appreciation Day. We pick up all our kids from camp, slap on some white t-shirts, black spots and pile in our vans to take over the nearest Chick-Fil-A. There are A LOT of us, so when I say take over, I mean literally. Tons of people from Beachmont camp go, and the line is usually out the door!
The second item we check off is going to multiple 7-Elevens on July 11, for free slurpees. This year was especially memorable since we drove through blinding sheets of rain in the middle of a massive thunder storm just to get a free slurpee! What can I say? Traditions and free food were worth it!
The next thing on our list is working at the Harford County Farm Fair next week. We’ll be at the Beachmont Corn Maze booth all week, so if you’re at the fair, stop by and see us!
We still have lots of items to check off of our list. I want our summers to be filled with lots of good times and making wonderful memories together. I only have so much time with my kids, and I want to make the most of every moment. We’re only half way through summer, so we still have many many days to run wild and crazy and to check those items off of our summer bucket list!
