our summer in pictures: making crayons

our latest summer activity was making rainbow crayons.  unfortunately i didn't catch on to the fact that in order to melt the crayons you would need to take the paper off.  so sadly i didn't have that prepped in advance.  the only one of the kids that lasted through all of it was ethan.  taking paper off crayons is harder than i remembered!  they were both excited when they were in the oven and when they were completed.  and it was a perfect thing to take to their show and tells the next day.

our summer in pictures: dallas childrens museum

last week the boys, mimi and i made the trek down to dallas to visit the children's museum at fair park.  i had been there when ethan was 2 and miles was just 5 months and while we had a nice time, ethan wasn't quite old enough to enjoy everything.  this trip was perfect!!  was nice too to have another adult so we could each do one on one time with the boys.  they really enjoyed the museum.  the science museum, which houses the children's museum, was having a dinosaur exhibit of some sort and it had these huge robotic dinosaurs right as you walked in.  ethan especially went crazy about them!!  makes me think that we need to make a trip to the natural history museum up in norman soon.

big hits were the silly mirrors, the fire truck, the water area and the farm.  

and this is quite possibly my favorite picture of the day.  LOVE that ethan face!

we will definitely visit the children's museum again!  well worth the trip.

our summer in pictures: 1 & 17

our summer fun list is still going well...i haven't done as much as i would have liked by this point, but hopefully will catch up in the next few weeks.  there is still some summer left even if ethan starts school next week.  it is taking me a while to get my layouts done, but this week was able to finish two of them.

{1: making homemade ice cream}

{17: treasure hunt}

our summer in pictures: 18

18 * make lemonade

our summer in pictures

this is my latest photo project.  

i am having so much fun with my 52 weeks project and i love the idea that it can easily become a book, so i've decided to use that same idea over the summer for something new.  thanks to pinterest (my latest obsession) i found this great idea for a summer activity list.  i decided to get back into digital scrapbooking (it has been a long time, definitely before mollie and possibly before miles, since i've done a layout) and create a scrapbook of our summer in pictures.


i made up our list and filled it with some bigger items (visit a children's museum, visit with cousins) but it is mostly small items that i think i'll actually be able to do.  needed to keep it easy and close to home.  i want this to be something i can actually finish.  our list has 24 items, 8 items for each month of summer.

i can't wait to see how this comes together!


i started a bit early.  so far we've accomplished item 9 on our list: make popsicles.  i know we'll do more popsicles throughout the summer, but it was a special treat to do this with ethan this past weekend.  i like to get one on one time with the kids every now and then and this was a nice way to spend it.

*all of the scrapbooking items used in these layouts are from the lilypad.