#26 Tell Stories around a fire

This was the last one we did because it gave us the opportunity to sit around and tell all the stories of our adventures. We loved getting together with family and friends to show all our pictures and projects!

#31 go mini golfing or to the batting cages

Mini golfing with grammie and auntie's made it even better than when they just go with mommy.

I took Caleb his own golf club from home since it was just plastic and he couldn't hurt anyone and still have fun with us

 

















auntie Amanda spent lots of time helping Madison learn to golf the right way

Grammie tried to teach caleb to golf the right way! Tried is the operative word

Auntie kelly tried too...tried

#82 participate in a talent show extra point for hosting one

for family night one night we did a talent show. we invited my grandparents and my family over to watch the kids and anthony do their talent and I hosted the show.

caleb sang: eieio

Anthony told jokes

Madison did the two magic trick anthony taught her earlier in the summer

#54 Collect and recycle cans, bottles, etc

we collected cans and bottles on our walks at night and after a month we headed to the recycle center with grammie. The loud noise freaked Madison out from all the machines. However we make $7.80 so after we got done at the recycling center I took the kids to the toy store and let them pick out some new crayons and coloring books. they were pretty excited to get some new "toys".

#99 Celebrate national zucchini day

I thought a million times about what to do for national zucchini day and came to the conclusion that we needed to make a trip out of it so we walked down to a local diner and had fried zucchini for snack one day. The kids thought that I was the best mom ever when they thought they were getting french fries for snack and devoured them like the good little overly healthy children that they are.

#57 Do some yard work or chore for your home teacher

We LOVE our home teachers! first off they are the sweetest people we could ask for. second they are super consistent which helps with Madison and her being so nervous around new people. for our chore our home teacher had Madison and Caleb go around his back yard and pick up all the fallen avocado's from his avocado tree. they even fed us ice cream and played with the kids for over an hour. we are truly blessed.

#81 Spell out words, or draw pictures on the beach using seaweed

Probably one of the best days of the summer was to go to the beach with my mom and sisters. we needed to draw with seaweed on the beach so me and the kids made a whole day of it.

we had a picnic on the grass before we headed out to play in the sand.

the whole day was tons of fun and we love being with grammie and the aunties.

#1 Pick up a grocery bag worth of trash at the park or beach

Caleb helped me pick up a bag of trash at the park which makes the scavenger hunt even better since he can actually participate this year! After we picked up our bag of trash we stayed and had dinner and played at the park it was a perfect family evening!

 His giant smile makes going to the park and all the dirt worth it.

#72 Make a wind chime

we had sooo much fun painting the windchime. It was the first time I actually saw Caleb use his fine motor skills very appropriately.

 here's a pretty good picture of him actually attempting to paint it...which he did a pretty good job of.

here's the finished product...we stashed it away to save for great grandma's birthday in november

#8 Sew or corchet something

My mom helped us crochet some pot holders for our scavenger hunt. they came out pretty good.

#97 Make your own cheese

We decided to try and make our own cheese. We went for mozzarella hoping it would come out and we could use it for pizza.

 

 The cheese didn't come out perfect in fact it was a little oddly textured buuuutt it still tasted like mozzarella cheese.

#95 play with chinese jump rope

it was fun for the kids to get their Chinese jump rope in the mail. They played with that silly piece of string for several hours together. It was the first time I saw them play together and not fight.

**caleb has learned to remove his pants and takes them off whenever he wants...sorry for the 1/2 naked child**

#19 Attend a fair

The OC fair has a once a week drive for different things for example if you bring 5 pieces of clothing then you get in free or if you bring 5 used books you get in free. so we packed up the kids and headed to the fair with alot of books to donate.

 Ready for the fair

 Watching the pig races with auntie kelly

checking out the kids building and looking at all the cool art projects

 He loved the little kid play area

 a ride on the carousel with auntie and daddy

probably her favorite was the bumble bee ride!

we had a little ice cream before we left and then headed home.

#64 Have a bake sale or lemonade stand

Our lemonade stand AND bake sale turned out amazing. we advertised alot with flyers at church, to neighbors, on facebook and instagram. and even though it was in the middle of the day we made $67 to help buy toys to donate to the children's hospital. I learned tons of things for next year like to do it a little later in the day so we can make a little more and the people were super supportive since we decided not to keep the money but to donate it to the children's hospital.