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My favorite childhood memories are with my grandparents. I would help them in their giant garden for hours on end. Play in the creek that ran beside their house and eat tons of homemade ice cream....those were the days. My only regret is that there are hardly any pictures to scrapbook from those days.

One of my most favorite childhood memories from summer time is going for an evening swim in our pool with my father. He'd come home from working as a construction worker tired and sweaty. Even though he probably just wanted to cool off, he always took the time to teach us swim strokes and diving techniques. We stayed in the pool until dark or until my mom insisted we come in and get ready for bed!

I love her stuff...I use it all the time on my layouts....would love some summer goodies...
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kim bolyard

Summer meant swimming. We lived in the desert, so we were in the pool from sun up until sun down. We only got out for meals!

In the summers my sisters and I would spend a couple weeks with our grandparents. We would always be excited to hear the sound of the ice cream truck. Grandma always had change available so we could buy our favorite ice cream.

I live in Minnesota {and always have} where it is often cold and we love when it finally gets warm. The rule at my house growing up was that you couldn't wear shorts until it was at least 70 degrees. Something about wearing shorts . . . I loved it! Anyway, I remember calling the time & temp number {you called this number -- which I've since forgotten -- and they told you the correct time and the current local temp} over and over until they said it was 70 degrees. I'm not sure they have phone numbers to call for that sort of thing these days . . . probably not since it's so much quicker to just check online. Now that I'm a mom, I can just imagine the kick my mom got out of us calling and re-calling until they told us it was 70. Then my brother and I would run to our rooms and change into our shorts. Funny, huh?
Thanks for the giveaway!
Blessings,
Shana

Going to the beach for 2 weeks with family and friends.

spending time in our vacation house in Santa Cruz, CA. The waves, the food, the wharf and family. We now take our own children there.

My favorite summer memory is each summer I would go to my grandparents in AZ for a couple of weeks...I would swim all day and at night sleep outside under the stars. Also I would have a grown-up night out, we all dressed up and go to a fancy dinner. Now I look back at it as a Miss Manners class, but it was fun all the same.

The total free dowm of being a kid in the 1960s-70s. There was lots going on in the world yet none of it seemed very close to my neighborhood. In fact, my mom didn't want us hanging around the house so we played morning till night with breaks for lunch and supper. Kickball, softball bike riding, swimming when someone would drive us, all great summer fun.

My favorite memory is playing outside after supper was over until it was just about dark.

The longer I think about it, the more that come to mind, but the first summer memory I thought of was running through the sprinkler. It was such a contrast to the cold longer winters!

My favorite summer memory is playing baseball with the kids in our neighborhood. We had great games and played all summer long.

Family volleyball and badminton games at our annual reunion. Great bonding times with our extended family.
~Kasey

Playing at the three parks near my house. Eating popsicles. Rollerskating and bike riding. All the fun stuff that existed just outside my front door each day.

playing wild games outside with friends untill I was tired and covered in mud ;-)

Playing in the huge trees of my Grandmothers house.

My favorite childhood memory is going to my Grandparents house on the lake. My cousins would often be there too and we would swim, fish and hang out.

My favorite summer memory from my childhood is of rainy days when we would play board games on the screened in porch. We would put out blankets on the floor and play for hours, we would even have lunch out there:)

My favorite summer time memory is making up fun mystery games with my brother. We would do clue searches and make mystery movies. One could say that our mother let us watch entirely too much Alfred Hitchcock, but we had a blast!