All the outdoor things you can’t do in the colder weather. BBQ, hike, swim, sit on the deck and enjoy the weather and best of all visit family!

We really love to camp and take long walks in the evenings together in the summer time. And we also love all the family get-togethers we have in the summer! Love it!

Every 4th of July we, and as many friends and family as are able to join in, go canoing on the St. Croix River, borders Minnesota and Wisconsin. It’s truly the best day of the year, warm, sunny, relaxing, just wonderful. We stop along the way on a sand bar for a picnic and to swim, play water games, talk. We also always go to Music in Plymouth, the Minnesota Symphony plays music, we take a picnic, sit out on the grass and enjoy friends and family. The fireworks at the end are by far the best I’ve ever seen, thank you thank you Target!!

I love to just be outside and go for long walks.

Well, for just myself I love to work in the garden. but even better is spending time with my daughter doing all manner of little girl activities: hopscotch, jump rope, sidewalk chalk, bicycling, running thru the sprinkler!!!

To be outside watching the kid’s play.
Nights on the deck visiting with the neighbors.

Enjoying our grandchildren and sunny days at the beach…

Going to the beach

Mostly now it is going to the mountains and just relaxing.

Taking the kids swimming in our 115 heat! And to the Lake! I would say sleeping in, but my kids get up even earlier in the summer!

Doing “Grandma Camp” with the seven precious grandchildren.

Watching the monsoon storms roll into the central valley
of arizona.

My would be to have friends over for a family fun filled evening of a family bar-b Que and a dip in the pool.