Oh Summer, Summer

Hallie and Devin enjoying some Seven Peaks time

I finally feel like summer is in full swing around here! It is my favorite time of the year and it seems like this year it has been a long time in coming since the weather has been playing tricks with our minds.

Today, Hallie, Jace and I took a walk to the library and back (about a 4 mile journey- it took about an hour) and it was nice to just bask in the sun. Don't ask about my sunburned skin. That's just a staple of summer for me.

We stopped on the way home to get some slurpees, which (along with sno-cones) are also a big must for summer. Hallie didn't quite get what it was...but that was basically my fault because I told her that we would get something like ice cream after the library. After she finished her slurpee, she said "Where is my ice cream?" and then when I put her down for Quiet Time, she said, "And I will get my ice cream when I wake up from quiet time??" Haha, poor thing.

We also have season passes to Seven Peaks, a local water park. We have decided that we will go every Tuesday evening. We have been the last two from about 6:30 pm until 8 when they close and that has been perfect. The crowds die down by that point and its not boiling hot anymore. Hals is a super dare devil in the water, which scares me a bit, but hey, she has fun! She was going down a slide tube with Devin and then decided she wanted to go on her own. Yikes. She did fine, but I about had a heart attack when she got shot out and went under the water for a bit. I'm just a paranoid mom, what can I say?

Swimming, Slurpees, long walks in the sun. Oh summer. It's about time!

What are your favorite things about summer?