Last Days of Summer

The last few weeks of summer where lots of fun and lots going on.  here are just a few of the things we did.

Ella's best friend moved away in them middle of august.  We were so sad to say good-bye.  These two girls spent a lot of time together and were the best of friends.  Ella always tells me "mom, i am going to Elle's birthday party!"  It isn't a question it is a proclamation!  No doubt about it in her mind.  Too bad Elle now lives 2 states away.

To say good bye to her best friend, we did a craft where the girls put there fingerprints on clay and we baked them and made them into these cute necklaces.  So, each girl got to keep the fingerprint necklace of each other, so they could remember each other.

I got the instructions for the necklaces here.

Then to get ready for school, I made these cute pencil packs for the preschool teachers.  I bought my usual Rocky Mountain Caramel Apples for the elementary kids. But thought these goodies would be fun for Jake's teachers.

I got the idea for the pencil packs here (with their cute tag freebie) and here is what I do every year for the elementary teachers.

This is just a fraction of the beautiful creations my girls made this summer.  Every day they would spend an hour or two making Perler Bead creations.  I loved it!  It kept them busy, creative and look at the fun designs we have.  They would give a lot of them away as gifts to loved ones and friends.  The perfect summer project for my girls!

Then we had to get school supplies.  Hannah needed a binder, so I thought it would be fun to dress it up a bit and make it uniquely hers.  

We had a couple of outdoor neighborhood movie nights this summer.  And we had our last one, the weekend before school started.  I love doing this, because it reminds me of what neighborhoods are supposed to be.  All hanging out together, enjoying the outdoors and each other.  The kids love it and it is so easy and so much fun!

We have started a new tradition, the weekend before school starts, the girls and I go and get our nails done.  The girls love picking out sparkly purple and teals colors for their toes and traditional red and pink for their hands.  They love it and so do I!  Such a fun mommy and daughter tradition! 

Then to help get life organized, I spent three days and 4 containers getting all our Lego Friends organized and categorized.  It was quite the project, but now the girls can find everything, so they will play with them more.  And I feel like I accomplished something great :-)

There you have it, the end of our summer.  Now on to schedules, being in the car all the time, practices and lunches and homework and running around like crazy!  Gotta love school.  Not only if it would stop being 100 degrees!  I am ready for fall!