• starting a care bear club with the neighborhood kids
• turning the animal pens in our backyard into forts (jen was in the chicken coops because she had to collect club dues)
• visits to lake mead (with stops at KFC to pick up lunch)
• playing lawn darts at Grandma’s and living to tell about it
• making whirlpools in the doughboy (until our dad brought home catfish and decided they needed to live in there)
• trips to disneyland and knott’s berry farm (using a paper map and getting lost a time or two)
• water balloon volleyball in our backyard
• dance classes and musical comedies like grease and annie
• bike riding around the neighborhood until the street lights came on
• enjoying suicide slurpees from the 7-11
• making chocolate chip cookies with grandma dee (and stealing stale marshmallows out of her baking drawer)
• cooking mud pies on the playhouse roof
• spending saturday’s at the park watching the adults in our family play some serious softball
summer, summer summertime
let’s take a little trip down memory lane today shall we?
jen, jodie + jamie
summers growing up in the 1825 house looked a little like this…
what were your favorite things to do during the summer as a child?
today we just want to encourage you to get out and have some fun
Carol says
I wish today's children would do more of those kinds of things. It's what I grew up doing (a gazillion years ago) & my children did most of the same things; but so many kiddos today (including some of my grands) spend too much time in front of the tv or playing video games.
Angela says
such a fun post! makes me think of what i'd write on this list 🙂 definitely slurpees.
Moore Minutes says
I just LOVE this post! I had a lot of clubs too when I was a girl.
Bernadett Rauski says
My fav' was eating watermelon on the bench…:)
Mique says
Look at those cute blonde girls!! During summer when I was little, we made up routines to Whitney Houston and Tiffany. Later learned the "Roger Rabbit" to Bobby Brown. We played alllllll day outside. Good times.