Summer bucket list

I imagined what it would be like. This last summer before Kindergarten. Before "real" school starts up and we're ball-and-chained to the calendar. Where my #1 will be gone all day long and the evenings will be a blur of homework, boy scouts, sports, clubs, dinner and bedtime routine rushes.
Now it is here and I'm not real sure how that happened. It's painfully, awfully, cliche-fully (is that a word? it should definitely be a word..) true when they say "the days are long, but the years are short".
So like most moms in this age of blogging and Pinterest, I've constructed a mental bucketlist to accomplish this summer before all our time isn't ours anymore. Unfortunately since school starts suuuuuper early for this county, our summer is halfway over already. I have to figure out some balance between forcing fun and making the most of it.
We've checked a few off our list already:

Picking berries with friends at the local farm.

The heat was a little too much by the end...

We followed up with Monsters University at the movie theater (Poppy's first!).

We've painted and muddied up in the backyard.

We've picnicked and built sandcastles at the beach, visited with family and friends, been to the pool, had ice cream playdates, played and had a nature scavenger hunt at the park.

We've visited the library and downtown Savannah. Planted our own veggies and fruits.

Read stories, sang silly songs, practiced our abc's and counting and writing.

We've built with legos and watched hours upon hours of Transformers.

We've roasted s'mores, flown the kite, and had watergun fights.

Still to do:

see a movie at the drive-in 

go to the farmer's market

find another whole sandollar

watch the fireworks

"camp out" in the backyard

go to the Jacksonville Zoo

take a day trip/weekend to Charleston, Hilton Head or Jeckyll Island

go to storytime at the library

catch lightening bugs

 go fishing

try alligator (our shrimp shack sells it 10.99/lb!

throw an ice cream sundae party

go bowling

visit the art museum

 put the boys in swim lessons

make giant bubbles

go to a fair

visit a lighthouse

put up a clothesline

have a waterballoon fight

put the boys in VBS

harvest from our mini-garden

watch the sunrise, maybe on the beach?

feed the ducks

go canoeing/kayaking

visit a civil war battlefield

go hiking

maybe horseback riding?

 do one-on-one parent/child dates (like my mother's day date with James a year ago)

paint a chalkboard wall and build a lego table for the playroom

and my own personal two:

finish 5 books

run 8 miles again. Maybe 10!