i {heart} summer

i {heart} summer…so much!

we are completely enjoying our lazy summer days.

so today i thought that i’d show you some snippets of summer life around our house.

this is seriously the life. here’s our driveway set-up, to endure these smokin’ hot summer days! we literally sit out here for hours in the morning and afternoon, enjoying our pools:

and our homemade water slide:
we even whip out the slip n slide, the water snake:
and the water hopscotch, which the bug works hard at mastering:
we’ve been enjoying outside summer picnic lunches:

complete with yummy popsicles for dessert:

when we finally go inside, we have been reading lots of books:

and drawing some pictures:

while mommy works on gifts for the many weddings we’ve had the privilege of attending lately. here’s a variation of the glass etching…a cookie jar! i think i’m going to make one of these for myself to hold our granola:
we’ve also been enjoying going to our local movie theater with fun friends, to enjoy the free kids movies that they play 3 days a week at 10:00 am:

but this is what i get when trying to capture our summer happenings!

i keep telling myself that someday they’ll appreciate all the photos and memories, but for now, i’m trying to figure out what i’m gonna have to do to convince (bribe) them to cooperate during the photo shoots that i have planned so i can keep practicing with my new lens! maybe more pool time?? any ideas for me???

anyway…hope you all are enjoying your summer as much as we are enjoying our’s!

i have an update to a previous recipe (Tortilla Pie) that i’ll share soon, so check back!