Summer Bucket List

I'm all into Pinterest lately, but I really USE it. It's not a time waster for me, it's an organizer of ideas. I don't like clutter so it's the perfect way to have a pin board without it being in my house getting on my nerves. I've done most of the recipes I pin, and working on the other boards as well.
This spring I decided we needed a summer bucket list so that we don't get to the end and realize we wasted our summer watching movies. No, unacceptable in this household this summer.
So, I started a pinning. And pinning, and I'm STILL pinning.
But then I decided "you know what Momma" because I talk to myself, and answer myself as well "what?", "Well how are the kids going to know about all these cool projects and help keep your lazy butt accountable for trying to stay off the TV"? Yes, I insult myself in my head too. Too often, but that's another story.
The answer was to create an actual bucket list. In a bucket. With Popsicle sticks for them to draw. How cute is that idea? --saw it on pinterest--SEE! It's nifty I tells ya.
We began painting sticks, because who doesn't love THAT mess in their dining room?! Eh, it's just preparing me for yet another boy summer.

(Boy summers are messier than normal summers or summers that involve girls by the way. They attract dirt like moths to a flame, just yesterday they were turning a swimming pool into the worlds largest mud pie. I don't know why, they just FEEL the NEED). 

Hobby Lobby had the perfect bucket at 40% off and we used paint we've had for a while.

And I wrote the goals on them. Some big huge goals that we most likely will not be able to do (like swim with dolphins), and some small that we'll do way more than just once (like make homemade lemonade). But the point is, they are tangible goals now.

Our summer bucket list, because I'm striving to be a good mom. (not that all good moms have bucket lists, I'm sure most of you that are better at it than me don't need them, you just automatically do cool things every day with your kiddos and my kiddos would be jealous).

2012 Summer

Go to the Tulsa Air and Space Museum

Make a treasure map and go on a hunt (me previously burying something cool)

Make mini personal pizzas for lunch

Make mud pies after a rain -DONE

Family Bike ride (providing scott and I get bikes)

Play Hide and Seek

Play Hopscotch

Paint the sidewalk 

Do Family Game night

Watch a Parade

Play in the sprinklers

Make homemade lawn games

Have a water balloon fight

Catch lightening bugs

Go fishing (and actually catch fish)

Watch fireworks

Play Frisbee

Spend the night at the Aquarium (for my guys)

Watch a sunset

Nature scavenger hunt

Weekend getaway with my husband. Alone. 

Go to the Heritage museum in Tahlequah

Go to a drive in movie

Spend a day floating on a huge float on the lake

Make firework messages

Tie Dye Shirts for boys

Make soda bottle ecosystems

Make coke floats

Go on a roadtrip

Make straw airplanes

Make a mentos diet coke geyser

Begin Visual Therapy and see progress

Go to a concert in the park

Have a water gun fight

Make homemade lemonade

Go to Blue Hole park in Salina

Write and perform a play with boys for Daddy

Go Camping

Plant a tomato bush

Roast wienies and marshmallows on the firepit

Do library summer reading program

Go bowling often

Watch for shooting stars

Go to the dollar movie

Go hiking

Have a whipped cream fight

Go on a picnic

Lay out and look at cloud shapes

Hang out at the lake

Paint

Go pick berrys at the local berry farm

Spend a day at the OKC Zoo

Bubble Painting

Make a hovercraft

Make glitter timers for the fall

Make homemade butter

Go to the Farmers Market for our veggies--been doing

Go to the Splash Pad

Get a Fish Tank and deck it out with some gnarly fish

When we do something on the list, I've painted the bottoms blue so we turn them over in the bucket to show the blue part. BOOM! Space-saving AND a cool way to see what you've done. 

I'm adding to it all the time but it looks to be a fun summer! I think I'll add our projects as posts here. Why not, it's my blog and I'll blog what I wanna! ;)

Oh, btw...we did one of em already....
TADDAAAAA

I'd like you to meet "Blackfin Catfish, Blackfin Catfish, Star, Star, Fire, Fire, & Zebra"
---I KNOW--Where DO we get such original names?! I have no clue where this kind of great imagination comes from I really don't...        <:0/