10 Years

In July, Ryan and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary. 

We celebrated in Lake Geneva for the day with the kids. 

We had a great day and love going back to one of our favorite places!  

 

 

 

10 years later

 

About a week later, Ryan and I headed to South Haven, Michigan for a couple nights away.  Thank you to my parents for watching the kids while we were gone! 

We had a wonderful time and found another place in Michigan that we love.

 

 

Here's to the next 10 years!!

The 4th

We enjoyed a fun few days for the 4th this year.  We were able to see friends, family and Ryan and I even got to watch a concert to kick off the weekend.  We ended our festive few days with fireworks.  

 

Many pictures are below.  I love, love the 4th!

 

 

 

Cute shirts from Grandma Barb!

 

Parade time

 

Party with family.  The kids jumped and jumped. 

 

 

Layla with Lexie and Lizzie. 

Grady was bummed that Layla had on fancy dress and he did not get anything fancy to wear so he wore Captain America from the dress-up bin for the fireworks!  The costume worked out really well with the mass amount of mosquitos!! 

Our Trip 2015

We had a great vacation with my family.  

Here are some of our highlights from the week in Branson:

 

Stormy Point Village

Silver Dollar City

Lambert's (Home of the Throwed Roll)

Dogwood Canyon

Ridemakerz (Similar to Build-A-Bear but with cars!)

Branson Landing Fountains

 

Our resort had many fun things to do for the kids.  They had fun at super hero day!

 

 

Layla won a hula hoop contest at one of the resort parties! 

 

Papa and the big kids before a magic show on the Branson strip.

 

A common sight!  Lots of silliness and some eating took place in our little cottage!

Many late nights with cousins!

 

Popsicles by the pool!

Grandma our braiding queen!

Dinner by the pool!

Our adorable cottage for the week (photobomb by Ryan!)

 

 

 

Lambert's Cafe!  Fun place for dinner.  A lot of rolls were thrown!

Optimus Prime

Fountains!

Kids were at a movie with grandma and papa so we hit a winery and cafe!

McQueen and Mater on the Branson strip

Fishing!  Between the six of them, one blue gill was caught!

 

Dogwood Canyon.  Standing in two places at once, Missouri and Arkansas.  We loved this beautiful park.

 

 

 

 

Fun water activities

 

Layla learned how to swim underwater!

These two were very sweet together all week. 

They entertained themselves very easily in the pool and in the cottage.

 

 

 

We were sad to see our trip come to an end.  Branson 2015.  It was a success!