Brower Summer Bucket List

We are back at it again this year with the summer bucket list.  We really enjoyed making the lists and completing most of them last year.  I hope this will always be a family tradition our boys look forward to even during those teenage years.  

We tried to each do one adventure that costs money and another that is free.  It is still hard with Brody, so he had some help.  

So without further ado, here is The Brower Summer Bucket List for 2015:

John

  1. Fishing

  2. TN safari

Crissy: 

  1. Collierville Thursday night on the square

  2. New Bass Pro shop at the Pyramid 

Mason:   

  1. Putt Putt  (he had fun doing this last year with his Daddy by himself)

  2. Movies

  3. Water Park

***Obviously, Mason just couldn't pick two...which is fine.  You are only young once.***

Brody: 

  1. Jerry's Sno Cone (I mean he does love ice cream.  I feel sure he will enjoy this one!)

Summer has begun and we started completed our first adventure this past Saturday.  We are pretty busy this summer and if we wanted to go to the waterpark, last weekend was it.

We researched all the parks around us and none are close.  Hot Springs looked to be our best bet.  They have Magic and Crystal Springs, an amusement park and water park.  It is also seemed to have the most rides for little kids.  It was 3.5 hours away but an easy drive.  John is really busy with work and wanted to make the drive in one day.  I was very leery of how tired we would be but it ended up being easy and a fun day.


Family selfie stick pic before we took off.  You can see how excited the boys were.  Brody had been talking about going to the water park for a week.  He didn't even know what water park was but he knew he wanted to go.

Mason was pretty excited when he found out we were going to a different state.  Also, we passed the Greyhound Park in West Memphis and he wanted to know what it was.  We explained it was a race track for dogs.  He then went on to say next time we go there, we can bring Emma to see how she does.  

He literally never stopped taking the entire way.  

One state over and they have all new fast food restaurants.  Mason liked Taco Bueno. 

We made it. 

Brody is our more apprehensive child.  His favorite thing to do was just walk around in the water.  Didn't want you to touch him though, "he do it himself". 

Mason on the other hand was all about the slides.  This slide here was pretty small and in the kids' section.  He slid down it at least 50 times.  He may have even done a somersault down it once...didn't try that again though seeing that slide is rock solid.  

So happy. 

John and Mason rode this a couple of times.  I kinda thought maybe he would get scared when he got to the top.  John assured me he never once got scared and just couldn't wait to get up there.  John told the lady working it to push Mason first so he would win.  All he talked about was how he beat his daddy.  

While they rode big kid rides, me and this guy enjoyed Dip n Dots. 

After a few hours, we changed clothes and hit up the amusement park area.  We had a couple of tired boys (and parents) so we just went to the kiddie area and never ventured into the bigger rides.  I really don't think Brody would ride any of these rides is he didn't have a crazy big brother he wanted to be like.  This whole ride he said , "Mommy I scared".  But at the end, he told his Bubba how much fun it was.  

Ferris Wheel 

Brody is thinking, "What have I gotten myself into?!"

But even with those terrified, big eyes....he put his hands up in the air after his brother did.  

Hydrating after a looong day.  

Thankful this guy drove us home.  

It was a much quieter ride home. 

Best part of the trip for Mason?!  He gets to tell all his teachers and friends about his battle wound on his nose.
"I went to the water park and was swimming in the pool.  I dove down to the bottom and scraped my nose.  It was fun"

We had a blast on our first summer adventure.  Now onto the rest of the list...