Summer Happenings

I started this entry back in June and just realized that I never published it.

I totally suck at writing my blog, how hard can it be to write what I am thinking.  There have been so many things that I wanted to write about, but I have talked myself out of them.  Why, I have no idea why.  Now summer vacation is here and the boys are home from school for the next three months.  I should have lots to write about, at least I think so.

Here is what's happening this summer for us.  Last week I spent 5 days chaperoning my sons Cub Scout Pack at their local day camp.  These were fun days but very long (about eight hours each day).  Each day the boys did something new and exciting.  The favorite part of the week were the days they got to shoot BB Guns, Sling Shots, and Bow and Arrows.  Every morning when the boys would arrive they would ask if we were shooting something.  I am glad that our pack had these last on the schedule each day so the boys had something to look forward to.

This week my oldest MJ is away at Boy Scout Camp.  We dropped him off on Sunday morning and left him and three other boys setting up their tent and cots for the week.  I hope that they all survive the week in one tent.  I know that MJ was looking forward to camp this year.  He will be working on Rifle Shooting, Fishing, and Canoeing.  Lets hope that he stays safe and dry.

While MJ is off having great fun with the Boy Scouts, AD and I started off the week by going to a FREE movie at the local movie theater.  Apparently Rave Cinemas does free movies for  nine weeks during the summer.  Each week there is a different movie, we plan to keep doing this each week.  AD is also participating in a Wrestling Camp this week in the evenings.  He has been having so much fun learning new moves and meeting other wrestlers.

The rest of the summer should be low key with a couple of fun weeks planned.  There will be lots of swimming at the pool and the local "Beach" at a state park. 

UPDATE: This summer that boys and I ended up doing a "Jar Of Fun".  I read about this in a magazine, and it was a lot of fun to put together and use.  I got a plastic jar and used stickers to put the words "Jar Of Fun" on it and then let the boys put stickers on the jar.  I then had the boys tell me some things that they wanted to do over the summer.  We typed all their ideas in to the computer and then printed and cut them out.  Each morning the boys got to take turns pulling a piece of paper out of the jar.  Whatever that paper had on it was what we were going to do that day.  The boys had so much fun taking turns and seeing what we were going to be doing that day.  There were never any complaints about what we had planned.  It made for a very relaxing summer.

Jar Of Fun

This year for summer vacation we decided to take a long weekend trip instead of a big week long vacation.  This year we went to Bloomington, Indiana and camped at a "Jellystone" campground.  Both MJ and AD were so excited to be staying there.  On the way down to Jellystone we stopped in Indianapolis and visited the Indiana State Museum (we used our Boonshoft Museum membership and got in for free).  We had fun looking at all the interesting exhibits.  On our way home we went to the Wonderlab,The musuem of Science, Health and Technology (again thanks to our Boonshoft Membership).  This was a fun museum with lots of hands on science experiments for the boys to do. 

Home Sweet Home

Boo Boo and the boys

Yogi and the boys

Summer came to a close for us with AD's very first trip to King's Island.

 I would say that we had a wonderful summer and are sad to see it come to a close.  Both MJ and AD have asked if we can continue to use the "Jar Of Fun" during all of their breaks from school.