This is Josh’s original poster creation for our summer theme. He had it blown up and printed and it is hanging in our family room!
Josh has been needing a break for … a long time. It is seriously hard to deal with a 3rd trimester wife followed by a newborn and a postpartum wife, and all the older kids, and work! And when Josh needs a break, he starts planning for a break. And the longer he goes without getting the break he is planning, the more he plans. And the more he plans, the larger his plans become. So here’s what we got!
Fay’s last day of school was the designated day (for over a month) for Josh’s surprise “Summer Kickoff Party.” He made all his planning secret–even for me! So, while I went to Fay’s kindergarten awards that morning, he was setting everything up.
Here is Fay and her teacher on her last day. Fay’s award for her class was “Awesome Artist.” We are so proud of how much she has learned this year!
We arrived home to this party.
LED balloons, fancy moving lights everywhere, and our official summer soundtrack playing on surround sound!
So we partied for a while, then there was a treasure hunt!
Fay reading the map to the key to the treasure chest Josh built for the occasion
But all of this was just to introduce us to our summer theme “Summer of Adventure.” Josh made us each a summer passport in which we put custom stickers for each adventure we go on. We do little adventures each week, and then a big adventure each month of summer. The kickoff party counted as the first little adventure, and we all put stickers in our passports for it!
This past week’s little adventure was water-gun painting in the back yard!
Us with our masterpieces!
Our big adventure for June is coming this week! We are having an epic staycation!
But if you think the only adventures going on around here are our official ones for the passports, then you are mistaken. (Remember that thing I said about not being good at sitting still…)
This is what happened while I was vacuuming the other day: homemade water slide!
And I also took the kids up the canyon the other day to do one of my favorite hikes.
Oh, also, this happened yesterday.
Josh with his mom and baby brother
Josh said he wanted to do something cool before he turns 30. (He likes to say “I’m 29 with nothing to show for it.” After which, we list off all the higher education degrees, the full-time mission, cross-country moves, children, and that fabulous wife he has to show for those years. It is amusing, at least for us.) Anyway, he decided the Dirty Dash was something cool, so he did it! It was cool!
And I know that his birthday isn’t for another week, but I feel like we’re all getting the picture here: Josh is cool. There isn’t a day that goes by that I’m not amazed by what this man can do, and even more, who and what he is. I’m definitely excited about our Summer of Adventure, but the life of adventure I have with Josh is really the best thing of all! (Yes, yes, it’s all very corny; but it’s the truth.)
I like how you are holding Helen in the picture with the caption “Us with our masterpieces!” She is definitely a masterpiece 🙂 Also, when did Jayden get so grown up?! I’m pretty sure he was just barely 12, like last week.
Josh is amazing! I am so impressed by your planning. Sounds like your summer is going to be amazing! Seriously…poster, treasure box, light up balloons?? So great!! I’m inspired to do something similar (adventure themed) over here…