Saturday June 6th

What a day we had.. We didn’t tell the kids anything until it happened, so the kids were both up by 6am. Josh made breakfast. Afterwards we all got dress and packed to go. We wanted to make it a fun family day…and that we did.

First up was the zoo! The kids had so much. We let them take turns picking where we went and what we did. We played on the playground, train and carousel. Well max did the Carousel. We are pretty sure it was his first time, as Bella always boycotted it at the zoo and he was sleeping at Disney. We got see the Polar Bears a lot! We also had a snack at the new Glacier Grill. IT was just a great time at the zoo.

Next up was a trip around Madison to go to Ella’s Deli for lunch. The kids weren’t sure what to make of the place other then they too had a carousel. Max was cranky because he was tired, but he managed to make it though.

 

Next up was a stop at a friends house to pick up some books. Which worked as a good distraction for Bella until we made it to our next stop, Cabela's . We finally made it to the new one where Josh picked out his father’s day gift. Bella got new bobbers, Max a paint your own John Deere Tractor and cinnamon pecans for me. I”ll admit it’s not as impressive as the one in Richfield and I think has less stuff then the Prairie du Chien one, but it’s the closest for us now. I do like they have a café in it. 

On the way home Max fell asleep, so we let him sleep once we got home. Poor Josh was in pain with his pain so he tried to ice and heat that before he headed off to church. He went tonight because I sing tomorrow and he had a big house project to get done Sunday.  Bella and I just relaxed until Josh got back home.

We had a “whatever you can find” supper. Seemed to work well for the kids. Then Josh suggested doing a bonfire. The kids loved that idea. So we all went down to do chores and get a bonfire going.  The kids had fun looking for sticks to for the fire. Then they would go off and play with toys. We roasted marshmallows and made smores. Max preferred plain marshmallows.  Once it go darker Bella asked for sparklers.. so we said sure! The kids had a blast with that. But we figured out why we had them left from last year..they smoked like crazy!

 

I also got a video of Max talking about our day

Lazy weekend?

This was the first weekend in more then a month that we didn’t head east for the weekend. Which was probably a good thing. With my mood still not the greatest and the weather has sticky and rainy, staying home was a good choice.  I decided at 8am on Saturday morning I wanted to set up a pool for the kids. Slight problem, all of ours are in Watertown or the lodge. I also didn’t want to run to Platteville as we had just been there a few days earlier. So we called up Grandpa to see if he was coming to visit and if he would pick up a pool for us. Lucky for us he and Grandma Judy were planning to come early afternoon because Hershey was being picked up.  With selling the farm, we won’t be able to keep Hershey with us anymore, so Judy found her a new home with family in Watertown.  Since Tony and Lou were coming from Watertown, I got my mom to take some totes that she picked up for me to their house for them to bring down for me.  I need the totes to do some more packing.

Tony and Lou arrived first so we had a nice visit with them before grandpa and grandma Judy arrived. Bella got to hang out with grandma Judy and Hershey one more time. Max slept though most of the visit. But we got the pool set up right away and the kids had to test it out. It was a lot of fun for them. But note to self, Next house had a hot water faucet on the outside.

We also hit up church Saturday night, so we could take Sunday to do something fun as a family.

Sunday we got up and going, and heading to Dubuque. It’s a good thing too, as bad weather moved in. Blah! But we hit up target, which was sold out of most of the stuff I wanted, but then went to lunch at HyVee. That was yummy. then it was on to Jumping Jane’s. It wasn’t as big of a hit as it was the first time. Max was a bit more scared, which meant an adult had to go with him. even Bella didn’t care to climb up as much, but maybe she was just tired as it was warm in there.  We left there to beat the storm home and had two kids pass out in the car. We mange to beat the storm, thank goodness.