Summer Fun
June 25, 2012
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Well, my amazing husband is going to school full time and working part time, so we will be taking our 3 kids to the dinosaur museum, farm country, the zoo and swimming through the summer. He will have about 2 weeks at the end of the summer term before fall starts and we are hoping to make it to Bryce Canyon. Thank You Traveling Soul-Mate!! Love you guys and your products!!
Hello all! Well my first trip of the summer season is going to be a tour of Atlantic Canada. We’re starting in Halifax, Nova Scotia and then ending in Belleisle Creek, New Brunswick! As the temperatures in Texas are presently in the 100s, I’m looking forward to the cooler weather!
I LOVE your products and how easy it is to record my memories. This summer we will be traveling to western PA to visit family we haven’t seen in almost 20 years! I am excited to be making new memories with them!
I’m going to visit my grandparents again. We already went once, last week, with them to visit family cemeteries and I did some genealogical research. Next time I’m going to video them, collect stories from them and visit some other cousins in the area. Looking forward to spending time with them and recording their memories for my daughter!
We stay around home in the summer. We live on a island in the middle of northern michigan. My kids and I walk to the beach many times a week. We save our vacation time for the cold winters!
Next week the entire family is taking a trip to Kure Beach, NC for a great week in the surf and sand. It will be my son’s first time at the beach. He is 15 months, and we are so excited to see him toddle around in the sand and get his feet wet in the ocean.
This summer we’re fulfilling my husband’s life-long dream of watching his favorite Major League team play live! On the way there, we’ll also be stopping to see his grandmother who is 92, and we’ll introduce her to her first granddaughter. Then we’ll sprinkle my son’s ashes in the city my husband was born in! Summer full of remembering what’s truly important–family!
We are going down south for our annual beach camping trip! my kids love the beach and my hubby loves the surf- it’s always a relaxing time we look forward to every year!
I just moved back to Wisconsin after several years in Texas and Utah. I’m busy unpacking and finding things for my kids to do; that and trying to not be eaten alive by Mosquitos and enjoying being home!
Well this summer we will be having baby number 7 (within a couple of weeks), so we will be having a stay-cation and visit things around our home including the water parks, the mountains, and family!
We’ve been working on putting in a yard. Next step is the top soil. Can’t wait to see the green grass sprouting!! And next month off to a wedding. It will be nice to see family again!!
We will be celebrating my daughter’s first birthday in August! Plan to take lots of pictures!
I am starting my weight loss journey to finally get the body I’ve always wanted. I will also spend my first summer with my amazing boyfriend, his 4 year old son and my 5 year old daughter. I hope we’ll get to do a bunch of amazing day trips. <3
I realized i worded that wrong. What i should’ve said was “my 5 year old daughter and i will be spending our first summer with my amazing boyfriend and his 4 year old son”
We will be traveling all over with our newborn and 2 year old sons. We will be hitting up many state parks, hiking and swimming, spending time at our family lake house, and maybe even checking our North Dakota. But we are most excited for the boys to fly out to Michigan to meet/visit their great grandparents on the beautiful shores of Lake Michigan.
I am running this summer…..Running races, running to work, and running to keep up with my two little wild boys. Fun but crazy summer.
Learning Japanese before our 10 year old boy gets here fore the summer exchange program!!!
It’s our summer tradition to create a Summer To-Do List. Our three girls generate all the ideas for the list. We post it on the frig, crossing things off as they’re accomplished. Except this summer, we’re trying to cross the items off with reckless abandon…..as they baby sister will make her arrival here in just a few short weeks! Hoping this is a summer they definitely remember!
I love your photo boxes. made one last year for my parents. This summer we will be spending alot of time at the lakes by our house with our family.
My twins (7yrs) have girls scout camp, bowling camp, reading camp, and speech. We are also involved in our local library events/reading club. So this summer I will be “mom’s taxi service” oh plus a lot of swimming, free roller skating and movies. I am tired just thinking about it all!
Our summer plans had to be altered due to the fact that I had to have major surgery less than 2 weeks ago. So, we are having a stay-cation this summer. My plan is to spend quality time with my boys reading, coloring, watching movies, helping with the garden, and baking. We have moved our vacation to fall break and we are taking the boys to DisneyWorld!!! They don’t know yet, and we are planning on surprising them when we get to the airport.
Even though the plans for our summer are not what we thought they would be, we are making the best of it! We have our health and we have our family……what more could we ask for!!
We live on the gorgeous Chesapeake Bay – we will be enjoying a staycation this summer. But we have lots to get into and make memories with!
We have a busy, busy summer ahead of us! We’re installing a sprinkler system and sod at our house, as well as other various projects. We have a trip planned next month to go see family, plus mine and my husband’s birthdays (on the 3rd and 5th of July…yep, 3 day celebration for us!). AND we’re planning our little boy’s first birthday party for the beginning of August, and I’d sure love to win that giftcard…I’m ordering some of your products for the special event! Either way, your products are amazing! Love them!
Unfortunately, we don’t get to go anywhere this summer (because my husband is working too much), but I still want to have fun around home. I had a lot of fun things planned, but some of those plans had to be put on hold because my 3 year old daughter just broke her leg a few days ago. As soon as she is feeling better, we will get back to seeing what our town has to offer!
We are going to Rosemary Beach, Florida for a huge family vacation!
Having a baby! Looking forward to summer maternity leave for weekends at the lake, events in the park, and long lazy days with my kiddos!
Main goal of the summer is to make sure my 8 year old has the best summer ever
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We are heading to Tennessee with 30 middle schoolers to do some mission work and white water rafting. Should be interesting but a lot of fun!
My husband is gone for the summer with the Marine Corps, so my son and I are visiting Grandma for the summer and have lots of fun day trips planned! We are going to see the King Tut exhibit (last stop in America!), going to Chihuly’s museum of glass, and lotsmore!
I have just discovered your site recently and we gave Dad the “All About Dad” book – what a hit! This summer we just returned from an annual Destin beach trip… and we will be headed to Cali over July 4th to meet our new nephew (we are a first time aunt and uncle!) Late July we head off to Saxtons River, VT to drop the kids and take a dream trip to Italy. We are so excited! How awesome to be able to document this cherished time using your memory books, so we can best record some of the greatest & blessed moments of life!
Thank-you! Emily – Plano TX
We are taking a roadtrip from Virginia to Montana with stops along the way to visit family and state parks and any and all strange roadside sights we can find. The kids are excited to see what neat things we can come across.
We are anxiously awaiting the arrival of our son in August. My daughter is involved in alot of fun summer activities such as bible school and college for kids. She also enjoys playing in the sprinkler in the backyard with the neighborhood kids. We have a trip to visit a family friend coming up before the little one arrives and then I’m sure we will be very busy!
Oh my! Good question. I’m moving from Europe back to the USA. My significant other and I are starting a brand new life in a state we’re never been to NC! We’re going to be road tripping it there from Miami, looking for apartments and looking forward to him starting his masters at a new school. We’ve also been discussing taking our relationship to the next level. A lot of changes are coming! I’d love to document it all!
We are spending the summer at home and the swimming pool with our 3 1/2 and 1 year old kids!
We spend our summers going from bike race to bike race cheering on my hubby, but we’re also looking forward to a family vacation up north in August – a cabin on a lake and plenty of fishing and swimming with our little ones before our littlest one arrives in October.
Family road trip to Indiana, big family reunion. Fun!
we went on a family cruise earlier in the summer and we are heading out to see more family next week!
we are headed to a cabin in the woods with the grandparents…then Atlantic City and NYC in August! Can.not.wait.for.that.!!!!!!
Our first trip of the summer will be to Salem, Rockport and Gloucester on the north shore of Massachusetts. We’ll be taking in the sights and eating good seafood,
Not too many plans this summer. Kids are busy with activities, so we will try to get to the beach and other local places for a lot of day trips.
This summer I will be spending every precious moment with my mom and dad who were both diagnosed with cancer within two months of one another. My vacation will be sitting with them looking at old family albums and remembering all the wonderful times we have had together and make new memories to record!!
We are spending most of our time this summer watching our youngest grandson play baseball..
We are doing two summer camps, plus visiting family. My husband’s parents are moving to Guam, so we will definitely be making some books and sending them, too!!
We just got back from two weeks in India with our three preschoolers. We may spend the rest of the summer in recovery (and documenting our memories!!!)!!
My garden keeps me quite busy during the summer months. We live on a 30 acre farm in NC, enjoy a little homesteading raising cows, horses, sheep, goats & chicken. But my favorite pastime and hobby is doing digital on-line scrapbooking! Started out doing one gift for a friend which evolved into inquiries & requests from others for me to consider this as a new part-time business
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I’m looking forward to my first trip to DC. This will be a great opportunity to visit the White House and Capitol Hill during an election year as well as visit scores of museums (Smithsonian anyone?) and memorials. To visit a place of such historical significance and enjoy some (hopefully) good food to boot? I can’t wait!
We are headed to Virginia Beach. It’s my niece’s first time to the ocean and I can’t wait to see her reaction. I hope she likes it!
Some moms dread summer and having to entertain their kiddies, but I love it!! We are swimming, picnic-ing and playing around!! Sometimes it’s the little things that make the summer amazing!!
we just got back from a family trip to Phoenix, AZ and Scottsdale area with our 2 kids- stayed for a week and a half and I have so many pics I want to document it with! it was wonderful!
So excited to leave hot Texas for some time in California this summer. Can’t wait to visit the Redwood Forests, cross the Golden Gate, and then head south for some beach time and a trip to Disney. I love your products, just got my first book in the mail a few weeks ago.
We’ll be taking short trips all over New England this summer to both the beach and the mountains.
We are visiting the sweetest place on Earth…Hershey, PA!
We are going camping and hiking in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
Love the designs of your memory books and I’ve used them to capture my vacation photos (most recently, Rome and Prague). This summer, we have two family vacations planned: one to Hershey Park (‘the sweetest place on earth’) and another to the Bahamas. Amusement park craziness to relaxing on the beach
Two of my childhood girlfriends and I drove a motorhome from Oklahoma to Utah, where we met another childhood girlffriend. We went to Bryce Canyon National Park, Zion National Park, Cedar Breaks National Monument, Kodachrome Basin State Park, the Grand Canyon, and Canyon de Chelly National Monument. Oh. I forgot to mention that we’re all Grannys turning 60 this year and we had a ball!!
The budget’s pretty strapped lately and we’re having to tighten our belt, BUT that’s not stopping us from having an awesome summer! We gathered our little girls ’round and made a giant “Summer Bucket List.” From popsicle party to a homemade drive-in, we’re trying to work our way through the whole list before school starts in August. It’s not a typical vacation, but our girls are pretty stoked about it. I couldn’t believe how happy little things like bubbles and hopscotch made them. It really is the little things in life.
Beach time to explore, hopefully some hiking tossed in, too. Berry picking, parade watching and bikeriding!!
We are enjoying our summer with our 2 year old and his new baby sister! Trying to keep cool as much as possible!!
No traveling this year! Just an entire renovation on our kitchen! WOO HOO! But oh, the documenting I have to do for that project!
I drove down to California with my kids to stay with grandma and grandpa! We’re going to Disneyland in a couple of weeks with them and my brother too.
This summer I’m planning a trip to explore more of my home state. I’m traveling to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to explore the natural beauty!! Looking forward to taking lots of beautiful pictures to frame!
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We are driving down to California to visit our cousins, aunts & granny!
Swimming lessons, visits to Grandma’s, trips to the beach, and park days are going to be a part of our summer!
NATIONAL PARKS! We bought an annual pass to all of them, and we’ve started with Teton National and Yellowstone! The 2012 bucket list on our fridge already has a hike to upper palisades lake and jackson hole crossed off and we’ll be crossing off the Redwood Forest, Golden Gate national Park, Yosemite, rafting the Hoback and lots of biking during the month of July! I’m needing a memory box to stash tickets, pics, receipts maps and brochures! HAPPY SUMMER!
Were going on an Alaskan Cruise this August! Super excited to spend a couple days in Seattle before heading out to see whales, glaciers, and enjoy some yummy food! Cant wait to photograph and document it all!
We’re going to see if we can get through the WHOLE summer using only one blow-up swimming pool… in 13 years, it’s never happened yet so it’s a serious endeavor.
road trip from middle America to NYC!!
Hello Traveling Soul-Mate, My husband and I will be celebrating our time together this summer with a backpacking trip through the Grand Tetons together, we will also have some day trips to Messa Falls, Yellowstone National Park and even Jackson Hole. What im most excited about is our trip out to California, we will be with his family and mine, we lost his grandmother this past year and we will be scattering her ashes up in the mountains where the families cabin is located, it will be a sad time but also a wonderful time to reflect on our love for her and all of the good times we’ve shared and create new memories. Its been two years since we’ve been able to go, we will find the tree where my husband carved our initials, go fishing, share stories, I cant wait!
Road trip from Miami Florida to California!!
We had a baby in December and I became a stay at home mom so we are trying to find fun and frugal ways to spend time together! We will make a trip to the zoo, a trip to a local orchard to pick fruit, walk around at a local farmers market, dinner and game nights with friends at our home, and then my parents are taking us on a vacation on August! It’s going to be fun and that $100 gift card sure would be a blessing
I am getting to go visit some dear friends in Egypt for the month of July & am so excited! I levee in 6 days!!!
We are hoping to go camping this summer. We are also taking a late summer road trip vacation to Park City for a week–should be fun!
I went on a 7 day cruise earlier this summer. However, in a few weeks we’re going to San Antonio, TX! It’s one of my favorite places to go within driving distance. I love the Riverwalk, the Mariachi bands, the Mexican market, Sea World……and a visit to San Antonio is not complete until you visit the Alamo! I love history….especially Texas history! I can’t wait!
With a little extra time this summer, we have been fixing up and cleaning out! Getting organized is a great way to boost at home moral. Plus, we have been kicking up our exercising to get not only healthier, but happier as well. Thanks to my husband for being such a hard worker, I’ve definitely been inspired.
We’ve got our first trip to Disney, and we’re taking our 7, 5, and almost 2-year-old boys! The boys are super excited about the trip, but it’s actually just one of several things we’ve got on our summer bucket list! So far, we’ve gone to the carnival, gone berry picking, and rode Thomas the Train… here’s to a great summer!
BTW, love the coil-bound Disney book in the picture… couldn’t find it on the site, though? Which book should I be looking for?
After 11 years and marriage and 5 kids I’m going alone to visit friends in California for a long girls only weekend!
Love your products! I have the memory boxes and have given them as gifts which are always well received.
This summer my hubby and I are making a southwest trip … Phoenix to Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon, Vegas, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico. No “set” plans just a lot of flexibility and see as much as possible. Quite the adventure for us.
We’re headed to North Dakota for a few days for some hotels with waterslides (for the 6 year old) and shopping for me, and some sightseeing for my husband. Then later in the summer, my son and I are headed out to Vancouver Island to visit my family for 10 days and to enjoy some time dipping our toes in the ocean.
We have/will be traveling to different parts of the state we live in. So far we’ve gone to Dinosaur Land!
I love summer! Home with kids, camping, fair, the beach and camps for basketball, football, @and soccer. I can’t wait!!!
Our summer travel plans are a Mid-West Road Trip. Bentonville, AR to Kansas City, MO to Indianapolis, MO to Chicago, IL to St Louis MO back to Bentonville, AR. ROAD TRIP anyone?
I already started our summer trips! We went to NY to received the solstice of summer at Times Square, way to experience welcoming summer!!! By mid July we are going to beautiful Los Cabos in Mexico waiting to relax at Mar de Cortes and why not? do some xtreme sports as sand boarding or dunas carts…And then in August back at home enjoying the Cincinnati Master’s Tennis Open. I bet we will have tons of memories to document with your products!
I just got back from a trip to Costa Rica to visit one of my best friends!! I have never traveled internationally before and now I am hooked! In a few weeks my hubby, kiddos and I will be heading to Montana – Big Sky Country- to visit relatives! Can’t wait to take lots of photos!
Most likely a staycation for us. My hubby is getting laid off and job shopping, so we’re not sure what schedules will look like. I’m daydreaming about New York in the fall.
We’re beach bound!
This summer I’ll be in NM, going to the Las Cruces Farmers and Crafts Market wed. & sat.
going to the pool every night and drinking lots of cold water!
We have quite the summer of travel planned. We are headed to Yosemite for a week on Friday, we love spending the 4th of July there. Later in July I am taking our 15month old dd to Vermont to visit her great-grandparents and then we will meet up with dh in NYC for a week. Then in September we are off to Ireland and Wales! I can’t wait to put together memory boxes and books for the trips. I just got the memory box I ordered for dd’s first birthday and I love how much it holds! It was the perfect thing for all her cards.
We just got back from our trip to Hawaii that would have been perfect. We have some camping trips and other summer activities planned. Would live to have this to capture those memories for my sons.
We are going on our first cruise! Neither of us have ever been on a cruise so we booked one for next month to celebrate our 5th wedding anniversary this year.
I will be playing with my 2 and 1 year olds and just enjoying every day I have with them in case I decide to go back to work this fall.
We are going on a camping trip in Sequoia!
I sadly do not have the money to travel this summer, so I’m having a long stay-cation, lol. I plan on to swim, get together with family and friends, enjoy the weather, craft/crochet on the rainy days, and get outside more. Maybe even resolve to exercise like I should..
We will be moving into our new home we are building next month!
We are going to the Grand Canyon in two weeks (all the way from Kentucky)! We are so excited!!
I will be taking the kids (3 under age 4!) on a day-long road trip to Grandma and Grandpa’s and from there we’ll take a two-day road trip to see my sister’s family for a week. Lots of fun in the car!
Yes, I love to travel!!
I’m currently in MD for a week volunteering at a small-town church teaching Vacation Bible School. Teaching kiddos and traveling are a good combination… at least in my book. Especially with my camera in hand.
This summer we will be spending every moment enjoying the newest addition to our family…our third (and last) precious baby boy. So we will be staying close to home…enjoying small day trips, walks, and bike rides with our boys.
My amazing summer started with going to Vegas with friends and being away from my 3 year old for the first time since he was born now that his daddy is back from a couple tours in Iraq! We are excited to spend some weekend getaways with our friends at Great wolf lodge and document and photograph more days in the park, even with the little sunshine in WA that we have had
This summer will be all about experimentation as a family…so who knows what else may happen! All I can say is that after almost celebrating 10 years of marriage this summer…there are always more adventures to be had!
We’re going to try to stay cool and get in as much family time as possible!
We’re spending a week up at my parent’s cabin. Otherwise, we have a full list of fun activities including museums, park, swimming and crafts. Hopefully a backyard carnival too!
We are spending two weeks at our favorite lake house and going to our favorite family beach on Lake Michigan each morning.
We’re doing a big New England road trip with a 3 year old. Wish us luck!
My son recently turned one and I am so excited that he is starting to understand how to play with other kids! It is so cute when they try to play with him and he just kind of looks at them, then hands them whatever toy he is playing with. Our goal this summer is lots of having lots of fun playing with good friends!!
Oh so love your products – they are amazing. We have been in our house for just about a year now and this summer will be spent enjoying the newly fixed up yard and blow up water slide for the kiddies. Saving to go to Disnelyland next summer, so backyard vacation it is this year.
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this is the FIRST year my husband & I can plan a summer vacation, as we’re both officially retired (he from banking & me from nursing) we’re spending our time touring our lovely province of New Brunswick, CAN……there’s so much to offer in *our outdoors*
Oh, the summer bug got us again! We have plans to visit the Olympic National Park, some farms in Oregon, the urban scene in Portland and anywhere we can find to camp and fly fish around our home town of Boise, ID (which isn’t hard : ) Paper Coterie gives me a way to enhance my photos through their endless options of hip yet timeless products. I look forward to capturing all of the big moments, small details and everything in between! It is going to be a great summer!
We are going to Yellowstone this summer! I have always wanted to go but have never been there. I am so excited! We are also going camping at least once and my husband and I will be spending a couple of nights away on Orcas Island, WA for our anniversary!
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With a 3 year old and 5 year old, our summer HAS to be filled with fun to hold off the unwanted whine of “Mom, I’m bored!” We made a list (inspired by pinterest) of 100 fun things to do this summer. Some of the things are as simple as build a fort, make Popsicles, and visit a new park. Others more in depth things include go road trip, sleep in a tent, tour a fire station and research a country. And if this isn’t enough to keep us busy, we’ve planned a trip to Sleeping Bear dunes and our local amusement park. There’s no question as to what our favorite season is – hands down, it’s summer!!
We are spending our vacation in Fryeburg, Maine, in a cute little cottage on a lake. Can’t wait!
Love your page! I just picked up some of those Simple Stories pepras myself and moved them around on a page a dozen times or so with no real layout in mind, so thanks for the wonderful inspiration! Our family hopes to get to Ottawa as well this summer to visit friends- enjoy your trip!
We spent a week at Disneyland to kick off the summer and have several day trips planned and a mini beach getaway to look forward too!
This summer we decided to take our kids on a good old fashioned roap trip! We live in california so we are starting off at the CA big trees! Maginificent creations so beautiful. As a family we love hiking, so we are planning lots of hikes into our short stays al
ong the way. We also love food networks, ” Dinners drive ins & dives” so we are doing our own version of food searching along the route of CA to the Grand Canyon! We are all looking forward to it and stumbling upon hidden gems that we have yet to discover. I am secertly hoping to find some antique shops along the way too, those are vacation mementos to me! Lots of pictures yet to come, lots of journaling at night so i can easily go back after developing the photos, and viola our “family 2012 summer vacation” album is complete. My daughter & I have fun doing it at night in our hotel,ramonising of the days events, we also enjoy collecting memorbella from that day like a candy wrapper that is different, a napkin from a frosty shop, etc. We just glue them in along with our journaling and have a blast doing it. This way once home,add photos and we can share our memories with family & friends of our fun family vacation!!!That is why I love Paper coterie,your journals, and scrapbooks make it a delight! Thank-you for helping me keep our family memories re orded for our children and some years from now my grandchildern.
My 7 year old son and I are taking a history tour of the Eastern US; Williamsburg, Philadelphia, New York. It’s great to have the summers off to really dive into learning in an experiential way. We keep journals when we travel and the memories we record are priceless. I’m looking forward to fill a few this summer.
Well, we took an early spring vacation to Williamsburg, VA. We homeschool and just studied American History so it was great to see everything there. Now we’ll spend the rest of the summer at the pool and working on our summer bucket list.
Summer is our special time to celebrate family! We fill our days with enjoying each other’s company, reading, being creative, spending time outside, learning about new things, relaxing, and having new experiences! We have made a list of what we want to do together as a family and so far, we have enjoyed every moment!
I’ll be going back to visit some family (in two different states!) and then off to my first year of university! Exciting.
We are spending our summer doing a bunch of local trips to places we always saw we should go to but never do . . . museums, state parks, hiking trails, water parks, and anything else we can find. And have a big (meaing all my husbands siblings and their families) camping trip coming up next week!
We are going down our summer manifesto list and checking things off! We are having a ton of fun. I cannot wait to get to the point to where I can print my summer manifesto photo book out!
We are doing an “Old Florida Trip”. Taking the kids on a road trip to see all the sites there are to see from some of the older odd and unusual spots to some of the newer tourist draws. Can’t wait for the kids to see some of the things I remember from my childhood that won’t be there for long!
We will be escaping to Lake Geneva, WI whenever the opportunity arises. It’s a short drive but gets us completely out of our everyday routine (and the bickering and whining that kids often do). Even a day trip feels like a week away, so we can go back home feeling exhausted but refreshed.
We are playing on taking our son to Great Wolf Lodge for his 4th birthday. He loves the water and loves to have fun! We also love to go to the zoo on a weekly basis since we have a membership.
So far I’ve been it the Smoky Mountains with my husband for a conference, he went to Seattle with me for one, then I spent 10 days in South Korea visiting my soldier daughter where I took about eight hundred pictures. I think I’m home to stay, unless I can sneak in a quick beach trip!
We are renting a house up by Traverse City in Northern MI with my parents and spending a week exploring the little cities around the lakes and going to Mackinac Island.
We are taking a trip over the July 4th holiday to Okaboji Iowa to enjoy the lake and sun! We will be tenting it though so praying for awesome weather
But even if we don’t get that answered no doubt it will still be fun. Happy summer all!!
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We are going to Long Beach’s annual sand castle festival, on Washington’s Penninsula. With professional sand castle displays and rainbow kites flying in the wind, that will produce some award winning memories!!!!
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We are going to be spending our vacation in Santa Cruz, CA, enjoying both the beach and the redwoods.
we discovered a few years ago that the best place to vacation with young kids is at the grandparents’ house. Ohio may not sound like a glamorous getaway, but it has free babysitting. and, we do get to enjoy an anniversary overnight trip to ride the world’s best roller coasters
summers are always exciting for our family. So far, we have taken our 3 year old daughters on their first camping trip, celebrated their turning 3 and have a trip to DE and MI planned as well as 4 Family Fun Fridays (as we like to call them) at various museums, events and attractions in our area of Southern California. We have taken TONS of pictures already, but would LOVE to have someplace neat to document it all as a family.
We are having our FABULOUS honeymoon this summer! Our itinerary is out of this world–stopping for a day in Amsterdam, then continuing on to Nairobi and the Masaai Mara for safari, then Paris oh la la on the way back. What a grand adventure we will have!
We have to stay home this year because my youngest is still very little , but hopefully next year we are off to the beach!
On Saturday, we are heading to North Carolina to spend a week on Lake Toxaway with my husband’s family. 2 of his brothers live in Ohio and one of his brother’s family has never met my 1-year-old Bekkett, so I can’t wait for them to meet our little guy! We will most definitely be documenting these moments. My mom has a saying in her house that says, “Grandma’s is where cousins go to become best friends.” Well, since we all can’t gather at Grandma’s house, we will say, “Lake Toxaway is where cousins go to become best friends.” I can’t wait for this moment.
We are flying (for the first time!) with our 18 month old twin boys to visit family this summer. It will be wonderful for our family to spend time with them and for some of our family to meet our boys for the first time.
We did a big vacation back in January, so we’re staying close to home and exploring our home city. Still super fun!
This summer I will be dreaming of our trip to Northern India this winter. I can’t wait to experience all the colors and people. I love your products and I recommend all my photography clients visit your site.
Well, we started the summer with an anniversary 4 day trip along the northern coast of Turkey (along the Black Sea.) We got to enjoy quiet beaches and private canyons! It was awesome!! In 2 weeks we will leave Istanbul to conduct an English course in Senegal, West Africa with high school students and their teachers. After that, we will make the crazy US rounds of PA to visit my family and hit the Outer Banks with them, then SC for a business meeting, Denver to visit my husband’s family, and then roadtrip back from Denver to PA so we can visit friends and my brother’s family in OH before leaving our car with my parents and coming back home to Istanbul.
At the end of the summer, my kids and I will be welcoming home my husband Jack from a year long deployment to the middle east. We plan to take them on a Disney Cruise in October to reward them for being such great kiddos while he was gone!
Our summer vacation was spent in Tokyo, Japan. Traveling international with a two year old is no pice of cake but needles to say the trip was amazing. Next stop Baja California Mexico to swim with whale sharks, along with countless trips to the zoo and sea world. We’re ready for fun summer nights!
I am traveling to Germany with a friend to meet our daughters who are on study abroad there. We are then going to Florence, Italy for 5 days of exploring bliss! I have dreamed of going to Italy for over 20 years…I look forward to using your products to help document my memories! Thank you!
We live at a camp and will mostly be here- there is so much to do we have to pace ourselves. The pool has just been redone so we are spending quite a bit of time there this summer. Look forward to documenting these fun times!
We spent a week in Newport, CA with some friends, and just lounged on the beach and really enjoyed our relaxing vacation. It was perfect weather, perfect company, and just an all-around perfect trip. I wish we could go again next week!
we plan on making many family memories in the mountains. we love to camp and seem to plan our next one even before we are home from the current one!
We are camping all summer long in our tent trailer!
Well….on the weekends for sure. With a few week-long roadtrips thrown in for good measure. Bring on the s’mores and campfires! 
We will be heading to the mountains to camp and then a condo on the beach!
We have not traveled yet. We are planning a trip to the Grand Canyon and my first purchase from Paper Coterie was a journal — on the front I put a picture of our daughter, my husband and me, along with the year and where we are headed. It turned out great and I can hardly wait to fill it up with our trip comments.
Our family of four is doing a super road trip from San Diego CA to Yosemite! Can’t wait to spend 2 weeks with my family with no work, no school, no chores and just each other
We are vacationing “up north” and visiting family. Door County for the 4th of July!
Drove to Six-Flags Discovery Kingdom. Had a blast.
We’re just relaxing and enjoying not getting up at 6am. A few short trips and work, of course, but nothing too exciting planned. Okay by me!
We are planning on spending the summer playing in the sprinklers, going to the zoo, traveling to Jackson Hole to enjoy cooler weather, and spending time together as a family! It’s going to be loads of fun!!!
We’re visiting the west coast, then looking forward to welcoming our first grandchild in August. Can’t wait!!
We are driving from Cincinnati to Seattle and back in a truck with our three kids. You name the national park we are hitting it either on the way there or on the way back. There will be a few hotels involved but mostly a tent in the parks. What were we thinking???
We just arrived home from our summer road trip to Rocky Mountain National Park! Can’t wait to create a vacation memory book with our photos I just uploaded
This summer, I will be visiting San Antonio, TX for the first time. I’m so proud to say that my youngest son, Alex, will be graduating Air Force Basic Training on July 6th. I will have my husband, oldest son (Josh), my BFF and two of Alex’s best friends with me for this trip. We are going a couple days early to do some sight seeing but I know my mind will be on my son!!!! I cannot wait to create some memories of this trip. Thanks so much.
We will be spending our summer vacation by the swimming pool until our fingers and toes turn into prunes. And then we will drive to the beach for days spent by the NC ocean building sand castles, swimming in the ocean and playing in the tide pools. My girls turn into fish during the summer and the one year old baby just tries to keep up with the rest.
This summer we kicked off with a trip to the beach! It had been two years since we had been and was the first time for our 16 month old. He warmed up to it and his older brothers had a blast! For the rest of the summer we are trying to stay cool at the local splash pad and riding around in my parents’ boat.
Me and my family will be working more during the summer months due our family business is more seasonal. We will enjoy most of our family time in the back yard around the pool. We plan to take a couple of days to visit Holiday World & Splashin Safari Theme Park in Indiana. Then we will be taking a cruise the first week of October to the Carribean for my parents 50th Wedding Anniversary Celebration with the entire family.
my summer pretty much goes like this. work. cape. work. lake. work. beach. work. maine. work. school starts. work. count the days until summer. can’t wait to fill the memory boxes will all the fun stuff in between work and play.
I am traveling to Thailand tomorrow with AFS Intercultural Programs and spending the month of July visiting my 4 Thai daughters. I will also meet, I hope, the parents of my Thai daughter who will be arriving in August. I am so excited!
My boyfriend and I take our dogs to Cape Cod every summer. We all get to unwind. We even managed to find dog-friendly beaches that allow the dogs off leash. I can’t wait for vacation to start and to record our memories when we get back!
I’m driving my three kids (4, 8, &10) on a 5-week tour up the East Coast with stops in Williamsburg, Annapolis, DC, Baltimore, Cape May, Philadelphia, and Boston to visit friends, family, and colonial history sites. We’re reading lots of historical books and going to see the places they’ve read about and studied in school: Colonial Williamsburg, Mount Vernon, the Naval Academy, Plimouth Plantation, Lexington and Concord, Orchard House, Boston Harbor, etc. We’re two weeks in and having a wonderful time. We’ll need a big scrapbook to remember it all!
This summer I am working at a summer school as a teacher’s assistant and substitute teacher. I just graduated so … off to find a semi-permanent job while studying for my GRE’s and applying to grad school. No vacation for awhile >>
We are taking it easy at home this summer, enjoying some day trips and camps for the kids. It’s nice to just relax and enjoy the longer days with the family, making lots of memories!
I am SO excited about my vacation to the Outerbanks with my husband and kids. We are also going with friends and their kids. It is going to be fun because our husbands are farmers and we haven’t gotten to go on vacation together! This vacation is meant to be because the first house we booked with a realty company waited until a month later to call and say they no longer have our house available (still don’t know the truth of why we could no longer have it after we signed the contract), long story short, we were so upset and thought we wouldn’t get to go…and our husbands FINALLY wanted a break from it all…..we found a private house owner and we couldn’t be happier! We can’t wait to take our kids to the beach and relax!!! Coming in August:)
Spending a week on Kentucky Lake! Gorgeous there!
This summer we are road-tripping across the country from Kansas to Oregon with our 4-year old and 23-month old children. Should be quite an adventure!
We started the summer out with a Memorial Day week trip to sunny southern California! We went to the beach and San Diego and Santa Monica Pier. We are heading this week to San Antonio where we will probably spend most of our days indoors (hot hot hot!) but sight see in the mornings and evenings. We also have plans to go camping, hike the 2nd tallest mountain in our state, and some other local visits to places. Since my hubby is still in school, summer is truly our only opportunity to take vacations/travel. The $100 gift card would sure help us out with some gas!
We have a lot of weddings keeping us very busy! We make sure to stay a few extra days everywhere we go so that we can get to know the cities these events are hosted in, small and large!
We farm with two small kiddos, so we are doing another “stay-cation” close to home again this year. Making memories happens–no matter how close or far we are from home, so I am excited about documenting them. Thanks for such a great giveaway!
We’re headed to Lake Michigan & the Sleeping Bear Dunes. Lake Michigan is a real treasure – this will be our second time there, this time further north.
My hubby is in the military, so we’re currently stationed overseas. This summer, we’re taking a North America tour with stops in California, Nevada, Mexico, Utah, DC & Maryland. It will be so nice to have a reunion with our family and friends across the country!
Oh I just got back from visiting family for a month, it was awesome since they all live on the other end of the country. The rest of the summer we will be enjoying the warm sun and playing outside before it gets all snowy again
I have spent the summer with my precious 16 month old building block towers, tossing balls around, exploring with crayons, and watching us some Disney Junior! I have made 2 books a couple of days ago that ducuments are time from June til now.
We’ve already taken our summer trips. But we went to Kure Beach with the entire family. Grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. It was my son’s first trip to the beach. He is 16 months old.
We have been busy with summer camp, lots of play dates and swimming. Our boy loves the water!! Looking forward actually for cooler weather, it’s been pretty hot and humid here in NC!