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{Hello Monday} even though it is really Tuesday

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

So I didn’t get around to doing a Hello Monday post yesterday.

I was busy grocery shopping, cooking and enjoying the day off.

Happy Memorial Day!

Hello to a short week! Hooray for Monday holidays!

Hello to 11 days of school left for Madie and Kels, 10 for Macaine. I am so ready for Summer!!

Hello to checking things off our Summer Bucket List… 2 things done this weekend.

The Scotsfest at the OC Fairgrounds… an annual tradition.

And a Dodger game with Grandma Judy.:)

Hello to listening to the new Vampire Weekend album. Love it!

Hello to some little projects to do around the house.

Painting, planting, purging, organizing.

Hello to trying to “fix” the entire load of laundry I ruined. Everything has a nice blue tint to it. How it happened I don’t know? There wasn’t anything in the load that should have done that? The only thing I can figure out is that my new grey tank top somehow bled all over everything. So for now I have it all soaking in some hydrogen peroxide and baking soda. If that doesn’t work I will have to figure something else out. I am so sad. A few of my favorite sweaters were in there and also a bunch of my cute undies are now totally blue.:( This never happens to me, I am really careful about separating things and making sure I wash stuff correctly. Hopefully I can salvage it.

Hello to my celebrating my Mom’s Birthday this coming weekend. Happy Birthday Mom! Love you!

Well that is enough for now. Time to get back to work.

What are you saying Hello to this week?

Linking up with Lisa Leonard.

Happy Monday Tuesday!

 

 

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Clan Crawford 2013 Summer Bucket List

Friday, May 24, 2013

I’m finally done with our Happy Family Movement Summer Bucket List. I kept going back and forth trying to figure out the best way to display our bucket list, not liking how things were turning out with the cards. I will still use those in my Project Life album. I finally just grabbed my turquoise chalkboard and wrote everything down. I like the simplicity of it and that we can check things off as we do them…simplicity totally works for me!

Here is our 2013 Summer Bucket List…

Visit a museum

Go on a picnic

Pool

Watch the Sunset

Photo Scavenger Hunt

OC Fair

Visit a new beach

Movie on the Lawn

Shave Ice

Bonfire @ Bolsa Chica

Scotsfest

Paddle Boarding

Make Friendship Bracelets

Write a letter to someone special

Camping in the Sequoias

Ice Cream Sundaes

Crystal Cove Tide Pools

Late Night Donut Run

Nature Center

Take Tobias to the Dog Beach

Ice Cream from the Ice Cream Truck

Great Park Balloon

Backyard Bonfire & S’mores

Baseball Game

Make ‘Slime’

Spread some LOVE by doing a Service Project

Make your own Pizza Night

Meals on Wheels with Grandma

4th of July BBQ & Fireworks

Spelunking

I am excited to get going on our Summer Bucket List!

Did you make your own Summer Bucket List? I’d love to see it. Feel free to leave a link to yours in the comments.

Here is to an AWESOME Summer!;)

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{Hello Monday}

Monday, May 20, 2013

Hello Monday…you snuck up on me this week!

This weekend went by so incredibly fast… I guess when we have lots of things going on that tends to happen!

Friday, right after school we had Macaine’s School Carnival… an annual tradition around here. I think this was the 17th or 18th year in a row that I’ve gone. I used to take my niece before I had kids of my own, back when I was working at the school. All three of my kids have gone through this school and we only have one year of Elementary school left. I can’t believe it! Next year will be our last School Carnival which makes me sad, my kids are all growing up too fast!

Hello to delicious, fresh produce this week!

Friday we also picked up our first CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) Box from Tanaka Farms. Love them! We have been buying produce from them for many years. I can remember shopping at their produce stand in Los Alamitos in the 80s with my mom. We have also enjoyed visiting the farm with scout troops and as a family over the years for tractor rides, strawberry picking, the pumpkin patch and buying christmas trees. I have been wanting to do the CSA box for a while, last week I finally signed up. We got all sorts of delicious things in our box. I am looking forward to making some yummy things to eat this week.

My husband’s family came in for the weekend from Arizona for my great niece Briana’s 2nd Birthday. We spent some time on Saturday and Sunday with them.

Hello to another busy week ahead.

Hello gardening projects.

Hello cleaning up the yard for Summer and planting some new things.

I am thinking I am going to plant the entire planter under our bedroom window with Succulents. Besides loving them, they are great drought resistant plants for Southern California.

I have a couple of other Succulent projects going on this week. I am planning to blog about them when I am done.

Hello Happy Family Movement Summer Bucket List Project kicking off today.

We still have 3 and a half weeks of school left, but I think we will join in on the fun a little early. Go sign up if you haven’t yet.

Hello School concert.

Still quite a few school avtivities going on in the last 17 days of school! It is going to be a crazy few weeks!!

Hello to a Dodger game later this week.

Hello to our annual trip to the ScotFest!

Good looking Scotsmen in kilts tossing Cabers…hey, what’s not to like?;)

Hello looong weekend!

Super excited for the unofficial start of Summer! Can’t wait for it to begin!

What are you saying Hello to this week?

 

Linking up with Lisa Leonard for Hello Monday this week. 

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Summer Bucket List 2013 | The Happy Family Movement

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

The countdown to Summer has begun in our house… I think we have 27 days of school left. As excited as I know my kids are for Summer to get here, I think I might be even more excited to just get on with it. After Spring Break I totally get the itch for it all to be over for the year. I love Summer! I love having my kids home. I love a loose schedule. I love going to the beach and staying late into the evening to watch the sunset. I love staying in our PJs all day and watching movies. Just doing what ever catches our fancy that day. At the end of Summer there are always those things we just haven’t gotten to that we wished we had. This is the main reason I love The Happy Family Movement’s Summer Bucket List Challenge so much. It is a way to make sure you get around to all the fun things you dream of accomplishing by the end of the Summer. I realize that our list is looking a little different than it may have in the past now that the kids are getting older. I have two teenagers and a soon to be tween. Maybe their idea of fun isn’t “hangin’ out” with the family, I know they would rather spend time with their friends, sleeping in late, watching TV or messing around on their iPads… it wasn’t that long ago that I was a teenager, I get it. I figure it will help if we have a stretigic plan to work with, so that when we are together doing “family stuff” we will already have fun things to do, that they helped choose.  The kids are wanting to do more “grown up” activities, understanibly. Certain activities that would have entertained them a few years ago were dropped from the list and new ones were added with their help. I was looking for things that were local, easy to do, maybe didn’t take a ton of planning and weren’t too expensive.  We have put together a pretty good list of things
to occupy us this Summer. I can’t wait to get started!
I transferred our list of activities on cards (designed by Liz Tamanaha, love her!) and am still working on getting them hung up, which I will probably do tomorrow. I will post a pic when I get it all worked out. I will also include our full list of activities.

Jenny Solar from The Happy Family Movement was recently on their local news sharing about The Summer Bucket List Challenge. She is adorable and did an awesome job! You can watch the piece below.

 

You need to go sign up right now if you haven’t yet. Seriously. Go. Now.

It will make Summer just that much more awesome, trust me!

I’ll be back posting pics of all the fun stuff we are up to.

Here’s to an AWESOME Summer!!

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