Welcome back to the blog, it's been a few days! You haven't been missing much. The dog days of summer, thats for sure. I'm counting the days to football season and fall weather. While that won't hit until October for us, at least in September we'll get super light crowds at all our favorite places, and that will be awesome!
Speaking of football, I know I told you all about making our last payment on our season tickets- well, they arrived this week. We got a fancy-shamcy shipped super fast package in the mail the other day, and I knew it was from the Bucs when I saw Asa's excitement.
There they all, all five of them! They only sent us two lanyards, but we let our Season Pass Liaison, Sierra know, and she's so awesome she apologized a whole bunch and said not to worry, three more were on the way. We also have two members only events/perks coming up next week. Yay! We're down to five more Sundays without real football, one of those weekends we get College football, one is my birthday and two we'll be on vacation. Goodbye boring- who knows what to do with themselves- Sundays, hello tailgating, baking at the stadium, and setting up some Pita, Nacho, and Hot Dog bars at home!
Meanwhile, we've been spending our mornings doing school work, and the afternoons checking some things off our summer bucket list, and going to the pool. We got Asa some earplugs, so hopefully that solves the water in his ears problems. We also got some housework done, lots of laundry- you know, the boring stuff.
But, the summer bucket list is coming along. I don't remember all we've done. My camera was a bit on the missing side the last few days. (I hate when I put things down and then can't find them anywhere!) But, I do have a few things to share. We made some orange julius which is a family favorite.
We spent a lot of Sunday putting together a puzzle. I got out the Where's Waldo puzzle that had been sitting all packaged up for probably about a year now, and Hayden was very eager to help. We got the edge all put together just the two of us.
Then Asa started helping us.
Before I knew it, Calib and Peyton were in on it too.
In no time at all our 550 piece Where's Waldo puzzle was put together. The boys let me put the last piece in since I was the only one who worked on it from start to finish.
But, nobody was happier than Dipper. He really wanted to sleep in the puzzle box.
We also went outside and braved the heat (and the hot driveway) to play some chalk squares.
I made a grid on the driveway, and the boys each start in a corner and move to an adjoining space, X-ing off where they've been. The most X's at the end wins.
At one point they all met in the middle.
Then they dispersed again.
Peyton came out victorious. He had about 6 more X's in his color than Calib, and about 3 more than Peyton.
Doing the puzzle has also peaked Hayden's interest in them. He put together a couple of 26 piece ones, and then a 60 piece USA one, all on his own!
We had a downpour today, for about 5 minutes. It was the first time in awhile it rained for a little bit without thunder or lightning, so as soon as it started I called for the boys to come play in it. Hayden ran out in it right away. Calib dawdled and missed the whole thing. Peyton was a little more timid, but did go out in it when it slowed down, and after I ran out there and convinced him to go too.
It didn't rain for very long (see it was almost sunny out when the downpour occurred, silly Florida weather!)
But then we just got to play in the puddles!
Another item off our summer bucket list, and the door is getting emptier. Our goal is to finish them up by Labor Day (the unofficial end of summer).
Today is also Justin's birthday!
So we had him over for dinner and cheesecake, and then we all went to the pool. Happy Birthday, Justin!
That's it from here for the last few days, I'll probably get to another update Thursday or Friday.
Next Up: We've got some craft projects on tap, and some Bucs things to head to, that should keep us busy.
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