Bike

Emery loves riding his bike to and from school every day!

Maybe a little too much....time for a new bike!

Happy 95th Birthday, Great Grandma!

We are blessed to be able to celebrate this young lady's 95th birthday!  We decided to take her to the Amana Colonies for the day.

The boys checking out the swing.

My favorite niece

We saw lots of pretty flowers today.

 

We really liked the chocolate.

We headed over to a park for a little cousin bonding time.

Emery was king of the playground!

Great Grandma loved watching the kids run around and play.

Uncle Mike getting a free ride from Leah.

 

Cade was all smiles!

We ended the afternoon with some cupcakes.  Can't wait to celebrate Great Grandma's next birthday!

First Day of School

Aiden is already for 3rd grade with Mrs. Paup.

Parker is ready to start 2nd grade with Mrs. Sorenson.

Very happy to start this school year!

Aiden waiting for his bus to pick him up and take him to school.

Parker is ready for his bike ride to school.

Emery and Parker outside of school.

Parker is ready to get the day started.

Now that Parker and Aiden are at school, this boy is ready to play!

Water Fight

End of the summer water fight.  Do we have enough water balloons?

After the water fight, we headed over to the Quandts house for lunch.  We are not ready for school to start tomorrow....

Oh My, Oh My, Oh Butterfly!

We headed up to Reiman Gardens this morning to show Carter around!

 

We turned into ants!

     

The butterflies were very active today and kept landing on all of us!

The usual photo with Cy!

Cam and the Iowa State Fair

Mom headed to the fair with some friends.  Of course, they saw the butter cow.

Mostly, they were there to watch Cam!

Happy 40th Anniversary

 

 

Papa and GG decided to celebrate their 40th anniversary in Dubuque with ALL of us!  We are quite the crowd, who wouldn't want to celebrate with us!

 

We saw dinosaurs alive!

 

There were lots of things to check out at the Mississippi River Museum.

We headed to Balltown for dinner and enjoyed the scenery!

We spent Monday morning walking along the river.

We checked out the funicular.

It was a hit.

 

It took two cars for all of us to get to the top.

Even Mom and Dad enjoyed the view at the top!