Summer is a-coming in

Yesterday the kids, my mom and I went to a park and ate cupcakes and ran around a little bit. Fun times! There's a picture at the bottom...

Anyway, so I've seen these "summer bucket lists" floating around pinterest and the blogosphere but most of them are between 50 and 100 items long. Ummm... No. But I thought it would be fun to sort of use that idea and ask the kids: What three things do you want to do this summer? So here they are.

Nathan's 3 Things
1. Go to Seven Peaks
2. Go to the mountains and have a picnic
3. Sleep in the tent in the backyard

Rylie's 3 Things
1. Go back to the park we went to yesterday and eat ice cream from the creamery
2. Go to Grandma and Grandpa Prince's house
3. Go to Barnes and Noble and buy a book and a treat. (her first choice was to eat at a restaurant but I asked her to pick something we didn't do every month or so anyway...)

Anyway. I guess mine are to go to our family reunion near Mount Shasta, hike to this small waterfall with a freezing pool, and make stuff with the kids. If they can show me they'll leave stuff alone, that is... If not then I guess I just want us to go swimming a lot.

Also Nathan has been cleaning a lot of his own volition and just suggested to me that another summer activity could be for him to help me clean the whole house. Jared said that maybe he's been switched for a double like in Community, if you watch that show.

For my sister

Happy birthday, Shannon. I love you. :D

We three

There's a version of this picture on instagram but just for kicks, here's another. If you want to follow my instagram pictures but don't have an iPhone, you can go here: http://statigr.am/mswin

As you will see, I love me some filters.

Random things

Hello again. Here are some things starting with "I", cause I'm selfish like that.

I'm trying to decide if I should buy the blogsy app... It's five bucks, and for someone who usually only downloads apps when they're free, that's kind of expensive. I'm also very wishy-washy and indecisive. If I had a few hours I could try and come up with a Shakespearean monologue of my thought process but yeah... I have other priorities.

I keep having dreams about people I haven't seen in forever. Last night I had a dream that an old friend was angry with me and told me I was a hypocrite. I can't shake the feeling it gave me now, even though I know it wasn't real.

I wish I had time to paint. I mean, finish a painting. That's what I mean. I have two that I want to finish before I can start on this other watercolor I have in mind. Also I started a couple of silly poems today, but I'm not sure if I'll finish them.

I ate strawberries on the back porch last night.

I am jealous of people in Scotland right now.

I hope my sister has a nice birthday.

I seriously need to do some serious laundry today. In the serious moonlight.

I wish my bedroom would clean itself and that the frames would hang themselves so all I would have to do is put art or pictures in them.

I want to buy new couches and a new coffee table because it looks like mine has bubos.

See?