Summer Fun List~ Eat outside for the entire day

We decided yesterday morning we were going to take advantage of our 99 degree weather and eat all our meals outside all day! Hey at least it wasn't 105.:) We can do this 90's thing. It wasn't that hot before lunch though. I can't find my pictures of dinner though...:( I took them on my cell phone and since my kiddos always play games on it maybe they were accidently erased. Oh well, I do have pics of the other meals.

We started with our breakfast outside....ok so since it was last minute I was trying to plan our picnic lunch inside. Resulting in CEREAL for breakfast. The boys actually requested this because they just got new Spiderman cereal. :)

So happy to eat their cereal outside. It's so funny with kids...change up their schedule just a little bit and it's the best day ever for them!

Then shortly after we headed off to one of our favorite parks. My mom met us there to enjoy the picnic with us. She came equipped with LOTS of fresh fruits and veggies. The boys and our sweet girl (our friend who stays with us each week) gobbled it right up!

Ian and Nana

Addison and Isaac swinging!

Isaiah met some new friends.:)

He also found "treasures". More than likely I'll find these awesome treasures in the washing machine later tonight.:)

My sweet baby Ian relaxing on the table. He loves watching the wind blow the leaves on trees. That alone could keep him busy for a while.

This is Isaac's new half smile. lol...Its sort of like the "Ok I'll smile just enough to make her happy so she will move along with this photography stuff".

The three amigos having fun on the slide!

Isaiah sure does love his Nana.

See...my mom came equipped with LOTS. She also had cantaloupe in another bowl. I love my mom, always thinking ahead!

Yes I just had to post a pic of my lunch. It was that good! (And for the record...I normally don't drink sodas but this was calling my name at the store last night.lol...and I only drank half) In case you cared!:)

Isaac waiting patiently for his sandwich.

Now come on Fall weather, we need some cooler days so we can have more picnics outside!!!

Christmas In July Party~

Yes your read it right, we got together with my sister and her kids and my mom(Nana) to throw a Christmas in July party. It turned out great and the kids were so pumped ALL day!
 JUST A WARNING...this post has SOOO many pictures. We had a busy day and I just couldn't pass up posting all the cute pics. lol...sorry!
We started our fun out with a Christmas themed lunch.

Snowman and Santa sandwiches, fruit tree, snowman donuts, and chips.

Lots of cheesy ooey goodness...a chicken wreath. Mainly for the adults.:)

Isaiah enjoying the grub!

Can you guess what he ate first?? yep thats right...all the chocolate chips.

My niece Marianna and Isaac.

My mom aka Nana preparing lunch.

My sister Krissy!

After lunch we did a little gift exchange. The previous day, each of the kids got to go to the dollar tree and buy a gift for the name they drew. Mine had so much fun picking something out, hard part was only picking one item.

Ian got cute little bowls with a baby spoon to carry his baby food in.

Isaiah got a wrestling man!lol

Isaac got a pull back race car. He loves this thing.:)

Then we set the kiddos up to watch Flinstone's Christmas Carol. They all snuggled up and pretended it wasn't 103 degrees outside.;)

During the movie the kids were served Christmas "Trash". (our homemade christmas mix we make every year.)

Grinch Punch! I found this recipe online at tasteofhome.com. It was delicious. Instead of vanilla ice cream we used lime sherbet.

After the movie we moved on the next event...REINDEER GAMES. We needed something to get all their wiggles out.

First up....THE REINDEER SCOOT.

Each one wore a rudolph nose and were supposed to race one another down to the finish line pushing a christmas ornament, using ONLY their nose. It seemed like such a great idea but most of thier cute little noses were much too small to keep the rudolph nose on. So they just ended up pushing the ornament without the red nose on and using their own.:)

 Next game.... Minute to Win It- Snowball Toss. Each kiddo were to throw as many snowballs through the wreath they could within one minute. My boys loved this one. Anytime they are allowed to chunk something inside a house they are all for! We used oversized marshmellows for our snowballs.

Isaiah kept wanting to eat the "snowball" instead of throwing them.:)

Max was our winner of this one with 29 snowballs through the wreath. All those all star games with baseball must of given him an unfare advantage. lol

My little Isaac LOVED this game. It surprised me at how well he caught on and wanted to partcipate in all the games.

Our NEXT big event was a game called...THE NUTSTACKER. ;) Get it? Nutcracker...Nutstacker? Just in case you didn't get it. ;) Again they each had one minute to get all the nuts stacked using only one hand. They all did surprisingly great with the stacking.

This game was intense. lol

Our last game was...Minute to Win It- STACK THE CHRISTMAS TREE.

The older two insisted on a tie breaker, so this is the Christmas playoffs.lol

A little photo prop session!

After all the excitement from the games we did what any right minded adults would do, Fed the kids more SUGAR!

Christmas candy cane hot cocoa!

AND goody bags from Nana!

Merry Christmas in July Y'all!!!;)