Bike Ride

Daddy thought he should show Emery how to ride his bike....

Walker Johnston Park

The weather was perfect tonight to hit a park after dinner!

  

The boys loved the dried leaves

This park has a story written around a pond if you stop and read each one.  The boys really enjoyed taking turns reading in their "scary" voices for this Halloween book.

Swimming Birthday Party

This year for Aiden's birthday, we decided to rent the pool out and invite lots of families to come swimming with us!  It was so much fun and everyone wants to do it again!

 

  

 

Afterwards, we headed home and let Aiden open his presents.

This year he had an ice cream cake, yum!

Family Photos

 

Aiden - almost 9

  

Parker - 7

  

Emery - 5

 

 

 

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!

Lake Elmo

We walked to a park in the neighborhood and found a Ga Ga ball pit.  We had no idea what it was, so we googled it and started playing.  We had a ton of fun!

Little frogs!

Audrey's game of choice - Duck, Duck, Goose!

Aiden playing with Mable.

He adores this little girl.

We also got to play in their new pool!  The whole thing isn't quite ready, but we made do...

Aiden and Parker trying to help Joe make pancakes.  It was a great trip to Lake Elmo, as usual!