Summer crafts and dancing waters

So sometimes I feel that summer is all about friends, which I am all for, but sometimes I feel like family time is lost and I don't want all my kids childhood memories to be of just friends. I also felt like TV was  overtaking our lives. If the girls didn't have a friend over or the tv on they complained to me all day that they didn't know what to do and that they were bored. They wanted me to tell them how to play and to entertain them. UMMM kids should not have to be entertained all day and they need to know how to entertain themselves and use their imaginations. I want my kids to like to play together and become friends themselves. So we turned off the TV completely for 1 week (haven't watched much since that week was up either) and we started doing crafts everyday together. We made marshmallow structures, sock puppets, paper castles, etc. I limited friend and guess what....? My kids are playing together and being happy and not whining and fighting nearly as much! It's been great. I have LOVED watching the three of them play together and getting along.

Going to dancing waters was on the summer to do list and so we did. We took the orange boat that TJ used to play with in the irrigation canals at his grandmas house growing up.