Summer Time

Ah, summer time.  We enjoyed a full summer this year.  Grady dropped his nap in June and we really appreciated being able to stretch out our daily activities.  For seven years, I have been racing home to fit that afternoon nap into the day.  It felt great to be off of a nap schedule!  We are also lucky ducks and we have Ryan home for a month during the summer. 

Below is a small snippet of how we filled our days.

 

Fishing.  Ryan and the kids started fishing this summer.  They did not catch very many fish, but they were sure excited when they did!

 

 

 

Water.  We swam and swam and swam this summer.  We used our pool passes, hit splash parks, swam in the backyard and visited lots of other community pools.  

 

 

Ryan's birthday.   We had a great time at Miller Park for a baseball game on his birthday.  The park is great for kids and our seats were amazing thanks to my Aunt Joan's friend!  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another big birthday!  We celebrated Liam turning F-I-V-E!!

 

 

 

 

Go, go, go.  Many adventures with family and friends!

 

 

 

 

 

Animals.  Layla enjoyed another read with a dog at the library and socializing the many kittens at the shelter.  Grady has been helping me walk Howie more often during the days. 

 

 

Movies.  Our first drive-in movie!  We cannot wait to try it again next summer.

 

 

  This little stand was our summer favorite. 

We discovered we could bike to this sno cone shop and it easily became our favorite!

Here are Ryan and the kids on closing night.  

 

 

 And now onto apple orchards, leaves and pumpkins!!