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Hi Ali---My favorite summertime memory has got to be just being outside from first thing in the morning until the street lights came on at night, the sun on my shoulders, no worries, just my friends, our bikes and the outdoors. Those were the days :)

My favorite summertime memory is climbing out to the roof of my grandma's home, picking mangoes from the tree that was within reach, eating them and just exchanging stories with my cousin.

My favorite childhood summer memory is camping at the beach with my family - now I'm trying to create the same memories for my daughter. And Elle's Studios rocks - I love the stuff!

Definitely the lake with my parents when I was young...and now being able to share and create memories with my children.

My favorite childhood memory? Sadly I don't remember much....however I do remember a bent old tree that I thought was magical...I thought fairies lived in it. I built a fairy house. One night I put some food in the fairy house and the next day it was gone! I was so positive that there were fairies there. Still do think they exist. :)

My favorite summer memory is being at family get together's and making homemade ice cream! I love the smell of the ice & rock salt.....the creamy taste of homemade vanilla is out-of-this-world!! Happy Summer!!

So many summer memories - playing with my favorite cousin, trying 2 of my favorite foods (fried squash and chocolate chip pancakes) for the first time, exploring in my grandparents' attics, catching lightning bugs, climbing trees, going to the country club, working jigsaw puzzles with my great-grandmother, trips to Opryland in Nashville, ... Read MoreLibertyland in Memphis, Navarre Beach, FL. What these memories all had in common were my annual summer trips from Alabama to visit my 2 sets of grandparents in Tennessee. I was lucky enough to usually spend a month with them. I lost both of my grandfathers while I was in college, and both of my grandmothers passed away at the beginning of this year, 13 days apart. What I would give to relive one day of my childhood summers with them!

My favorite childhood memory is getting the big firecracker ice pops with my Grandmother.
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It's gotta be playing in the sprinkler with my brothers. It gets REALLY HOT in Houston and even the water in the sprinkler was hot, but we didn't care ... it was just the shrieking and running back and forth through the water that was a treat. Do they still make those sprinklers that turn in circles? Those were the best!

My favorite summer time memory is our family vacation to visit my uncle and aunt in Minnesota when i was in sixth grade. I remember sketching the whole way out. When we got there we met our baby cousin, i learned how to ride a horse, feed st. bernards, and hold a baby.

Favorite summertime memory when I was a kid? Playing with the neighbor kids & my brothers, collecting pollywogs in the irrigation ditch nearby & then watching them grow into frogs & letting them go afterwards :).

my favortie memory is the summers @ the fmaily lake cabin--which we named South Fork-like dallas! :) we still have it and are all there each and every summer enjoying the lake, family, friends and bonfires with smores!!!

Making homemade ice cream with strawberries and bananas on the front porch with my family is a telltale sign that summer is officially here.

my favorite memory has to be the warm nights in our neighborhhod and playing hide and go seek with all the neighborhood kids at night ,waiting for the red white and blue ice cream truck. To be a kid again :)

My favorite summer time memory is going to Broken Bow Oklahoma with family and friends. We still do it every summer actually - 28 years and still going!

Running around the neighborhood, playing with my friends; only going inside if I were hungry, or when the street lights came on (curfew).

Summer for my family was always about swimming. Lessons were from 9-12 5 days a week. Sometimes we'd eat lunch in the snack bar and stay to swim some more. Other times we'd go home for lumch and naps and then go back later in the afternoon, eat dinner in the snack bar and swim till the pool closed. As my siblings and I got too old to take lessons we started teaching and lifeguarding. I really miss those days!

My favorite childhood summertime memory is from the summer I grew flowers (OK so they might have actually been flowering weeds) from seed. I watered and checked on them daily and was so happy to see them grow.

i remember play outside a lot! I had a best friend Andy, and he and I played all the time. We loved to swing, and run through the sprinkler, and play kickball in the street with all the neighbor kids.
I also enjoyed going up to the lake to my aunt and uncle's cabin. We would swim, play in inner-tubes, go fishing, all good memories there. Also, we got measured on "the post" every summer and it was fun to see how much we had grown.

Camping with my family at the lake.