Friday Night Activity-Enjoying the Last Days of Summer

On our Bucket List, we had listed that we wanted to play soccer and Frisbee as a family. We decided to do it last Friday night. The weather was perfect and I just wanted to soak in all that I could of this perfect summer evening.

I can feel the last bits of the freedom of summer draining as school, warm sweaters and hot chocolate loom on the horizon. I am excited for it, autumn is one of my favorite seasons. But with it comes the kids being gone all day and coming home with lots to do. There isn't too much freedom in the hectic schedule school brings with it. It's okay though, I like a schedule, but I was just figuring out life in the non-schedule. Today begins the last week of summer vacation for us. I have a feeling that I am going to be ditching a lot of my "responsibilities" (I may make a vow that I won't do any laundry other than swimming suits and towels for the whole week. So tempting) this week. I feel an urgency to cram summer into it! To only eat watermelon, corn on the cob and Popsicles for the next 7 days. I just may do it...
I have loved the perfect summer evenings this year with my whole heart. Every time I take my camera out I just sit and click away and then afterward while looking at the pictures I always wonder why all of the fairy dust and glitter seems to have disappeared when the summer air had seemed thick with it.

We went and grabbed a $5 pizza (oh I love you $5 pizza, not that you are anything that great to eat, more the fact that you are $5)
McKay had a ball running around eating his pizza. I think he may have swirled it in the dirt a few times, but hey that is what boys and summer are all about right?
The boys loved playing Frisbee with Josh.
he had them all line up and he would throw them each their own Frisbee as fast as he could. The boys loved scrambling to get them.
McKay insisted on being part of the action. He would laugh every time Josh ran.


McKay threw the Frisbee a couple of times as well.

Then we played a family soccer game. The teams were Hunter and Josh against Palmer and Lincoln.
They all did pretty well.
Hunter was a little fireball and got the ball past both Palmer and Lincoln a few times.
Giving "5" after Hunter scored a goal. I am sure the game ended in a tie :) They usually do (especially since I am the one that keeps score).


Somehow I got roped into playing the second game. Palmer and I were on a team against Lincoln and Hunter. I really am not a good soccer player. I am a soccer mom though...so I was sort of hoping that watching all of those games might have rubbed off on me. I don't think they did. At one point Palmer told me to "stop being so easy on Lincoln and Hunter." I really wasn't trying to be easy.
After the game (which ended in a tie) we played on the toys for a bit.
It was good times, as park toys usually are.
McKay found a slide he could do himself. I found a set of the metal bars I used to try and do tricks on when I was in grade school. I could do quite a few tricks on them as I was a gymnast back in the day. Well, I thought I would show the kids a few of my tricks (and Josh, because boys really like girls that have skills...attempt at a Napolean Dynamite quote). There are pictures, but I would DIE before posting them on here as they are horrible. I look ridiculous. Why is it that I never feel like I am any older. I did a trick and completed it...what the boys didn't know is that I nearly ripped my arms out of the sockets doing it. Wow, my body is a lot heavier than it was...I am sure the boys (and Josh) are really impressed though and that is all that matters (actually they didn't say ANYTHING about it and I went through all that pain for absolutely nothing).
After the fun at the park we headed to get snow cones. Okay what are they called now because I don't think they are called Snow Cones, especially since they are NOTHING like a Snow Cone. Oh my goodness, I was expecting a bunch of ice rocks with a little syrup on them and what I got was sheer heaven. How in the world have I not ever had one of these?
Palmer and I got "Tiger's Blood" My little sister loves that one, so I had to try it. Josh got grape, Lincoln got watermelon and Hunter got wild cherry. They were all so good!
McKay shared with us all. He thought they were pretty great too. Josh and I got the "snow capped" version and I thought I had died and gone to heaven. They put all sorts of things in them the only one of which I remember is sweet and condensed milk. Honestly, it was so good.
We got home so late, but it was such a fun night. I really think it will be good for us all to get back to our routine, but I have sure loved summer and everything that has come with it this year.