With all the talk of Labor Day being the “official end to summer” and the weather certainly feeling like summer is behind us, I thought it would be fitting to recap our awesome summer. It was amazing! We didn’t go anywhere super fancy… just a few trips to Dallas (one family trip that included Rainforest Cafe and Legoland Discovery Center and another girls’ trip where we shopped, ate, and had pedicures!). We mostly just stayed close to home and enjoyed exploring around OKC and Edmond, spending tons of time with family and staying cool at the pool (as you can see in the video below!).
A friend of mine from college posted her family’s “Summer Bucket List” at the beginning of the summer on her Facebook page and it inspired me. We made our own version titled “Lees Love Summer” and a new tradition was born! The boys had a blast checking things off the list one at a time. I thought it would be good to document our list here so we can come back and look at it when we’re making our list for next summer. Here are all of the things that we checked off this summer in no particular order:
- VBS
- Library Summer Reading Program
- Farmer’s Market
- Braum’s Tour
- Slip ‘n Slide
- Swimming Lessons
- Trip to the zoo
- Playcation! (A week of fun for the boys with their grandparents and a week of quiet dinners and free time for us!)
- Cars 2
- T-ball/Coach Pitch
- Miniature Golf
- Sno Cone Stand
- See Dinosaur Bones (Sam Noble Museum)
- Omniplex
- Visit all Edmond Parks (I think we still lack just a few of these… it was awfully hot this summer for parks!)
- Backyard Campout
- Sprinkler/Water Balloons (Not sure I could count how many times we did this!) but check the to see for yourself
- Bowling
- Watch Fireworks
- Pelican Bay
- Fishing
- Late Night Sonic Run
- Lunch at Pops
- Snoopy Sno Cone Machine
- Redhawks Game
- History Museum (We made it to two!)
- Legoland Discovery Center
- Day at the pool with Layla (This also happened more than once!)
- Blue Bell Ice Cream Festival
- Splash Pad
- Laser Quest
- Explore Bricktown
Whew! No wonder our summer went by so fast! We managed classic car insurance to pack a lot into it. 🙂