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!

Carving Pumpkins

Papa and GG are here to help us carve our pumpkins!

GG let us spray paint our pumpkins different colors.

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!

Yellow River

It has been so incredibly hot, that Papa and GG thought the boys needed to head over to yellow river to play.  Aiden worked on his cub scout fishing belt loop, and everyone had a great time enjoying the cold water.  I took a lot of pictures and videos to remember how much fun we had!

 

 

 

 

   

Brandon's cousin Matt taught Aiden and Parker how to fish.

GG

 

Sometimes you just need to snuggle and read with your GG.

Reading

 

Like Father like son (and like dog brother.....)

Flowers

  

Trimming up Aunt Diane's flowers is a lot of fun!

Waterville Fun

 

Brandon and I took the kids up to the school to play some baseball.

Papa joined us

We had a great time playing!

Tyler joined us at the park afterwards.

Emery playing games with some of his girls.

 

Sandra made sopapillas.  Emery shaped his into questionable shapes....

Adam relaxing with vinegar on his legs trying to take the bite out of this horrible sun burn.

Emery found some more girls to pay attention to him!