July 23, 2011

summer vacation

 Each year I feel like we get a little bit jipped as far as summer vacation goes.  Year round school has it benefits, or so they say.  I personally don't believe it because it doesn't work well for my kids and it is hard being off track at weird times and not getting a "real" summer vacation from school.  This year, we got out of school on July 1st and we go back to school on July 26th.  My kiddos get 3 weeks for their vacation.  So we have tried to cram a bit of fun into a very short amount of time. 

Here are some of the things we managed to do:


7-11 Free slurpee day!   Only by the time we got there, we had to pay....


donuts for grades at Krispy Kreme!  We came home with 17 donuts!  Yay for good grades, kids!

we did some craftin'...

even the big girls had fun!


slept out on the trampoline!
jumped on the tramp with the sprinkler!

went camping with gramma and grampa and all the rest of the Cole family!

Glitter toes for the girls!

Ute Stampede parade in Nephi, Utah
we saw Cars 2!

and Thor!

we watched old episodes of the Smurfs
we also had water fights, made paper dolls, baked banana bread, read books, and played with friends!

What a fun 3 weeks!!

2 comments:

kathee said...

You are an AWESOME mom, that is a whole lotta fun to pack into 3 weeks!!!

Lisa said...

You totally put me to shame, and I had nearly two months. I hang my head and bow to the master of time management and mothering. :)