The Start of Summer Day 1 and 2 - MOVING IN and Singing to country music

Well we have officially moved into the house. The two sides of the duplex, while not complete look pretty nice. We have been having a lot of fun hopping between the houses. We have cooked several group meals including spaghetti and chicken tacos. We have a full house for first two days but it will calm down soon with everyone going to various corners of the world. Kate leaves for Italy tomorrow and Jessica leaves on Wednesday for Nicaragua. Rachel leaves on Wednesday to go home to Chicago before leaving to go to Pittsburgh. Kevin is also leaving on Wednesday to go home to Des Moines. We completed our first activity number 93 HEARING KYLE SING!!! He was around fixing furniture and we turned on the radio. Turns out he sings to country music. First activity DONE!!!!

More Recipes and Move In

So it's been a while since I blogged about this summer but since the end of the semester is a week and a half away I figured it was about time that I concentrated on completing the lists before the end of summer. We have some recipes to add to the list. We also have to figure out our first activity off the adventure list to do. We will try to do the first activity during move in when some of us are moving into our NEW HOUSE!!!! Be excited. Very excited! So here are the new recipes. If you have an idea for what our first activity should be comment!

18. Ableskiver
19. Carmel Apple Pork Chops
20. Raspberry-Glazed Rosemary Chicken
21. Cherry Cookies
22. Easy Ice Cream Sandwiches
23. Honey Mustard Grilled Chicken
24.Cheese Ball I
25. Very Easy Fruit Salad
26. A pie
27. Raspberry cheesecake
28. Grilled Chicken Tostadas
29.Desert Nachos
30.Ice Cream Cookie Sandwiches
31. Homemade Pasta
32.Banana flambe
33.Grilled Everything Salad With Pesto Vinaigrette
34.Lemonade with Berry Ice Cubes
35. Italian Chicken Salad

Share your thoughts and your recipe ideas!

100 recipes of Summer

Well it looks like we have plenty of possible activities of things to do this summer. But we are not going to just be doing activities all summer long. We also are going to be living fully on our own, with a KITCHEN (which some of us have not had the joy of experiencing). So what is better than trying out all the new recipes that you don't have time while in school to try. Maybe we will even find some recipes that we can use easily while school is in session. THE MISSION: (if you choose to accept it)is to try 100 new recipes this summer. They can be anything from a drink mix to a full course meal. We will then post the results of our cooking attempts and let you know which recipes are our favorites. We have a list of food items to try and I have been taking my recipe ides from allrecipes.com . We are getting a lot of good ideas from it and it will probably be a really good resource for us this summer. Here are our food items that we plan on making so far.

1.Beef Shish Kabobs
2. Soufflé
3. Risotto
4. Homemade Bagels
5.Basil, Tomato and Mozzarella Sandwich
6.Orange Rosemary Chicken
7. Simple Baked Apples
8. homemade ice cream
9. cheesecake
10. pizza wieners
11. chocolate cherry cake
12. Greek Penne and Chicken
13. Honey mustard grilled chicken
14. Fresh Tomato Salsa
15. Raspberry Margaritas
16. Summer Smoothie
17. Healthier slow cooker chicken

So there is our illustrious list. Comment if you have a recipe you would like for us to try this summer.

More ideas for THE LIST!!

Well we had a productive night at church tonight and with the help of a couple people, we managed to add to our list. It is now OVER 100 items but no worries we can shorten it later. Just talking about possible things to do made me get really excited. I really thing that trying new things is good for the soul and we are going to do A LOT of new things this summer. Hopefully it will help us to become even closer than we are now. Even if you are not going to be in Cedar Falls this summer I hope you do some of the items on the list and then tell us about them.

81. Wear a goofy hat all day long
82. Go spunking
83. Learn how to shot a gun
84. Walk down railroad tracks
85. Drive to another state and buy fireworks
86. Go four wheeling or mudding
87. puddle jumping
88. learn how to play harmonica
89. Walmarting - (go to walmart pick out items in 2 groups then have other groups put items back)
90. Fantasy Fast-food
91. Eat everything with chopsticks (no Chinese food)
92. Make an article of clothing out of duck tape
93. Hear Kyle sing
94. Disney Princess party
95. Get Michelle to buy and wear a dress.
96. Tea Party
97. Spray on Crazy hair dye
98. Spike Kevin's hair
99. Tye -dye t-shirts
100. Watch a sport live
101. Go ice skating
102. Hairwraps/braid hair all in tiny tiny braids
103 Learn sign language
104.Have Henna party
105. Make Kevin crossdress
106. Make a movie
107. Mud fight
108. Muddy slip and slide
109. Fake proposals at tourist attractions

I hope this continued list makes you smile, sit up and take notice and think, wow I've never done that before....oh the possibilities

The List Continued

So so far we have managed to come up with quite a few more possibilities for the list of 100 things to do this summer. We have also started the recipe list. I can tell that we are going to have a really awesome time this summer doing some of these activities!

The List continued:
41. Go to a bonfire
42. Go to a concert
43. Sleep in a tent
44. Eat something I've never eaten
45. See mountains
46. Go on a roller coaster
47. Influence someone's life
48. Make a new friend
49. Play video games
50. Visit top 10 tourist attractions in Iowa (museums, etc.)
51. go fishing
52. take a walk through the woods
53. graffetti something
54. carve initials into a tree
55. make a journal/scrap book
56. have a caffine high
57. stay up all night
58. try on something I would never buy
59. buy something to decorate the duplex
60. spend time with family
61. Watch a sunset.
62. Watch a sunset.
63. Pull and all nighter
64. Climb a tree.
65. Make a fort out of furniture
66. Fingerpaint.
67. Walk barefoot over grass.
68. Make cookie dough....and eat just the dough.
69. Go to a casino
70. Build a sand castle
71. Watch fire works
72. Learn how to make a margarita/ martini
73. Eat a lobster.
74. Dance in the rain
75. Send a message in a bottle.
76. Learn to juggle.
77. Spend a day traveling using only public transportation
78. Go tubing.

Leave your suggestions for more activities on the blog. The first week of May we will chose the best 100 activities and make THE FINAL LIST (dun dun da). It should be pretty spectacular!

The LIST so far

So summer is almost upon us and I came up with this idea. Let's create a list of 100 things we want to do this summer, accomplish them and then blog about it. Here is the list that we have created so far

1. Go to a water park.
2. Go rollerskating
3. Have a picnic in a park
4. Go to an outdoor movie
5. Go on a bike ride
6. Take a yoga/ other kind of new exercise class
7. Take road trip out of state.
8. Go Skinny dipping
9. Have a BBQ
10. Go to a play
11. Waterballoon fight
12. Attend a music festival/ art festival
13. Learn to knit
14. Make a pottery piece
15. Fly a kite
16. Go stargazing
17. Attend a graduation (not your own)/ graduation party
18. Visit a museum.
19. Try a new restaurant
20. Have a parent's weekend
21. Take a train ride
22. Rent an RV
23. Rent a houseboat
24. Take a roadtrip with no destination
25. Go to county fair
26. Volunteer someplace.
27. Create/join a book club
28. Build something
29. Learn how to change oil in car
30. Learn to weld
31. Go to garage sale
32. Plant something.
33. Take a random cooking/craft class
34. Get in contact with old friend.
35. Invite a high school friend to visit.
36. Take a bath with candles and soothing music
37. Go ballroom/ salsa/ some kind of dancing
38. Go canoeing
39. Do karaoke
40. Go to a carnival.

This is not a final list by any means. Some things will probably be removed or replaced. Just post whatever you come up with and we will come up with a final list together. Number your entries just so we know how many ideas we still need.