Here are some highlights from our very busy so far.
This is basically a photo bomb...just so you have been properly warned.
This little girl of mine turned 5 and celebrated with ice cream sundaes instead of cake.
The day after her birthday, we left to go to Utah.
Here's some fun at the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point.
Then there is always a lot of fun with the cousins.
Here we were waiting for the guys who were doing a 20 mile hike (Scouting merit badge requirement for Jakob) along the Jordan River.
A view of Utah Valley from Camp Williamson (I think that's what it's called).
Then there is the trip to the 'Y'...
this time to the Wilkinson Center...
to go bowling.
On the way home we stopped at the St. Louis Zoo. We made it just in time to pet the sting rays
and the goats.
My favorite was the butterfly house though.
Then we were home for 2 weeks in which the girls swam with the rec center swim team. That was kind of fun to be introduced to the world of swimming. By the end Clara had improved her time for free and back by 15 seconds and Sophia was able to swim the 100 IM.
Then it was up to PA, just in time for the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.
There we had all sorts of fun.
Here are the girls playing in the stream at Caledonia St Park. We were waiting for the men folk (Jakob, my uncle Adam and his son-in-law Rob) to finish up a 10++++ mile long hike on the Appalachian trail, which cuts through the park. They had a good story to go with the hike and Rob, who is from England and doesn't really hang around kids that much got to know Jakob rather well.
Then there was the battlefield...
and Pickett's charge.
Fun with sparklers and fireworks on the 4th of July.
And there was swimming lessons.
And a small town carnival with turtle races,
and rides.
A quick visit to Devil's Den on the very crowded battlefield.
Jakob and I also did a 10 mile hike around the battlefield early one morning. That was one of the highlights of the trip for me (besides getting to see family). The battlefield is rather quiet early in the morning and it was fun to have Jakob as an exclusive 'captive' audience/companion for almost 4 hours.
There you have our summer so far.
