The Summer List

Hello Hello, everyone! Sam here!

It is a tradition every year when summer rolls around for my mom, my sisters, and I to make a list of all the things we want to do during our three months off. Then at the end of summer we go through our lists and figure out all of the things we did and check them off. We've been doing this since I was young and in keeping with my one list a week challenge I thought that today would be the perfect day to write my list for summer since it's my first official week of freedom. The lists we write each year consist of all kinds of things; things we want to accomplish, places we want to go, things we want to do or see, and lots of other fun summer musts. So here is my list for Summer 2013! Hopefully sharing it with all of you will be the motivation I need to be able to check EVERYTHING off at the end of Summer this year. And hopefully it'll help give you all the motivation you need to write your own Summer Lists! Happy listing!

Sam's Summer List 2013

• Get outside! Go hiking, biking, exploring, swimming
• Spend more time with friends, catch up
• Get a part-time job
• Read as much as possible
• Write as much as possible
• Take pictures of everything
• Blog more!
• Spend less time watching TV and more time doing something productive
• Take a road trip with friends!
• Go canoeing and kayaking on the river
• Take a trip to some place new
• Summer Love
• Live in the moment
• Have a bonfire and roast marshmallows
• Catch lightning bugs
• Exercise more and eat healthier
• Go to the zoo
• Play wiffle ball with the cousins...and maybe Ghost in the Graveyard
• Go on lots of adventures!
• Get lost somewhere beautiful
• Have a water balloon fight
• Do a Color Run
• Make memories
• Go to the beach
• Spend more time with family
• Get out of my comfort zone, try something new
• Get rid of all the things I no longer need
• Go to concerts, or just listen to live music outside in the open air
• Have a picnic
• Make lots of art
• Go to Elephant Rocks and Johnson Shut-Ins
• Drive with the windows down and music up without any destination in mind
• Camp out under the stars
• Dance in the rain
• Reorganize my room
• Laugh as much as possible
• Have as much fun as possible with the people I love
• Make it a summer to remember!

So there you have it! My summer list. It's long one, but I'm feeling optimistic here which is rare, so I'm just gonna roll with it. Here's to having one heck of an AMAZING summer! And I hope you all do everything you want this year!

Love & Chaos,
Sam