Trip to Six Flags Chicago

Our friends Kyle and Wendi Smith invited us to go to Six Flags with them this past weekend. Kyle works for Bank and America and was able to get discounted tickets for us. As you can see the kids had a great time! They were able to ride all of the rides they wanted without having to wait more than five or ten minutes. By the time we were ready to leave the lines were much longer, but it worked out perfectly for us. The guys did go on one roller coaster, but had to wait an hour for that. A good time was had by all! :)

We are heading out to Southern Indiana tomorrow evening. Dave's parents live in Jasper and we will be hanging out with them for a few days. We have lots of day trips planned while we are there. I will be sure to have lots of fun pictures to post!

I found out this past week that I will be teaching first grade again! YEAH!!! I am super excited to be going back to my old stomping grounds and teaching with my awesome partner again. I love working with Kim (yes, everyone calls us Kim squared) and look forward to a great year. This will also give me the opportunity to teach the kids I had last year again (well at least some of them, I promised Kim I would share :) I loved that class, so it will be lots of fun! I can't believe we are 2 1/2 weeks away from the start of school.. YIKES!!! I have a lot of work to do to get ready.

Hope you are all having a great summer!

Cute video!

From the waters of beautiful Michigan!

As you can see we had a grand time visiting my Dad and step-mom Lois in Michigan this past weekend. Anna caught her first fish, feed ducks for the first time and drove a boat. :) She was very exciting to try new things and explore Papa and Grandma's house.

Thanks for all of the fun Papa and Grandma! :)

Trip to the mountains of NC

We have returned from the great Smoky Mountains! My mom and step-dad recently moved from Maine to NC and are currently building a beautiful home up on one of those mountains. My sister Kris and her son Keegan were able to join us as well. The kids had lots of fun getting reacquainted with each other. Anna hasn't seen any of them since this time last year. We had a lot of catching up to do. Dave was able to take a couple of bike rides while he was there. He was a little disappointed that he didn't get to do the big ride he had planned due to lots of loose dogs chasing him.

We took a road trip up the mountain where my mom and Dave are building their new house and saw some beautiful waterfalls. The kids really like seeing the big falls and touching some of the water.

They have a place in their town called the Fun Factory that we had to go and check out. The kids had a blast (I guess we did too! :) They had lots of activities for younger children as well as adults. We had so much fun we went their twice during our trip. :)

Overall a nice trip. We enjoyed seeing everyone and loved watching Anna play with Keegan.