SUMMER

The word conjures up so many wonderful memories! There isn’t one magical summer that is my favorite, rather there are snippets, myriads of snippets.

• sparklers on Independence Day
• watching the Days of ’47 parade with cousins, aunts, and uncles
• dressing as a pioneer and marching in our own Primary neighborhood parade
• practicing the “Dead Man’s Fall” on the monkey bars
• swimming lessons
• bike rides to Tropical park
• running through sprinklers
• Disney World
• Epcot
• kickball in the front yard
• my mom’s summer schedule – field trips, library days, fun days, etc.
• Miami heat and humidity
• homemade mango ice cream
• catching lizards to make their tails fall off



• gathering chicken eggs with Guelito
• going to the beach
• Georgia peaches, ripe and juicy
• the Peach Festival complete with the world’s largest peach cobbler
• volleyball
• softball
• go-cart races 
• reading all day with a big bag of peanut M&Ms in hand while it rained outside
• squishy red Georgia clay between my toes
• exploring the woods around our house
• snakes
• shoveling fresh manure on our garden
• vacations to Nauvoo, Washington D.C., Gettysburg, Hershey, Pennsylvania, Palmyra, NY
• learning to swath and rake hay
• driving a hay hauling truck while pregnant with my first and barely able to shift gears because of the belly 
• fire trucks and sheriff cars complete with sirens coming to put out the fire that got out of hand while Mr. Ferrero Rocher burned weeds along a ditch
• eating watermelon grown by our neighbors
• family BBQs
• traveling back and forth to Sierra Valley, California for custom farming
• Frenchman Lake
• roads red with dead Mormon crickets
• Chilcoot Frosty double swirl ice cream cones
• the smoke alarms going off in the middle of the night while I am home alone with the children



• pinatas
• breaking down with all five children in the suburban and the closest help over an hour away
• painting rooms in a brand new home
• canning apple pie filling
• the book mobile
• the sound of laughter as my children climb trees in the orchard
• weeding the garden with Fudge – she talks the whole time!
• smell of fresh cut alfalfa hay
• toasting marshmallows to the perfect brown over a smoldering campfire

Other memories we are hoping to make this summer:

• a Mexican fiesta to celebrate my aunt’s wedding
• Ganache’s first birthday {the rest of our birthdays are in the autumn or winter}



• fixing up this 1951 Chevy Truck {well watching Mr. FR fix it up}
• playing flour tag

Join us for Wordfull Wednesday! Write about a favorite summer memory and come back and link up.