Summer time! It’s our vacatioin! What time is it? Party time! School’s out! Scream & shout!

Just a little diddy from High School Musical 2.

I promised the kids I’d pick them up from school yesterday for the last day of school. Brooklyn was stressin’ big time that she’d have to ride the bus with a giant garbage bag full of stuff and since she’s not big on being the center of attention I said I’d pick them up.

As I sat in the carpool lane I got all emotional. I’ve mentioned before I’ve never been one to cry when the kids went off the kindergarden or anything like that. But I was so sad that the school year was over. Yea, partly because I’m thinkin’ what the heck am I going to do to occupy 3 kids for the next 12 weeks….but more so because my kids have had the most amazing teachers this year. Seriously, they rocked. So I was just totally bummed to be saying goodbye to them. I know, sappy.

Anyway, to snap myself out of the sappy funk I decided to key up the iPod to blast that catchy lil’ pop song …Track 1 on the H.S. Musical CD. Yes, my iPod is loaded with that, Miley Cyrus, Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers for pain-free travel with kids.

As I began pulling through the carpool lane and I got about 20 feet from the kids I hit Play and rocked out. I thought Brooklyn would crawl into her backpack….but she surprised me and was jumping up and down and singing as she came up to the car.  They were both stoked to officially begin their summer! As we pulled off…I realized I was too.

Mark was out of town but we decided we wanted to go out to dinner to celebrate the beginning of summer and the end of an awesome school year. The kids wanted to eat at Johnny Carino’s. Aftewards we ran through Target to grab some stuff for ice cream sundaes. We got home, got P-diddy to bed and then made our sundae’s and rented Agent Cody Banks on On Demand and chilled for the night.

This a.m. we headed out for a couple errands then hit Starbucks real quick and then headed over to a newly constructed park to play a while. I love finding little gem parks nearby. This one was great since it had an area for Parker Man to play and a place for the older two to wander around.  There was a rockwall and plenty of running space.  It was a perfect morning since the wind was blowing and it was overcast. But then it started to RAIN…HARD! Just out of nowhere. We got a good 1.5 in though so it wasn’t too bad.

We’re heading to the pool around 5 to meet some friends from the neighborhood and Hudson’s little girlfriend from his class. (they are so stinkin’ cute) he totally wants to marry her. We’re going to get a few pizza’s and let the kids swim a bit up there.

So, it’s summer time! I’m embracing it….and all it’s humidity!

Happy summer people!