A Summer Recap

  The family and Papa Jim had a lot of fun in July at Austin's Boyscout Fishing Derby. It is held at a private lake (big pond) that used to be a sand quary. So Bailey had a lot of fun playing on the sand 'beach' while the boys fished. No one but Todd had much luck catching antyhing but it was still a good time. Of course, part of the bad luck could have been from the 2 little imps that insisted on throwing things in the water and were sitting on a fallen log in the water. Boys will be boys.

    

We had Bailey's 3rd birthday party at our house, I love summer birthdays. All the kids had a good time playing in the bouncy house and being crazy kids. Mom and I had quite the adventure the night before making Bailey's cake. I came up with the great idea of making a 48 cupcake pull apart cake. It turned out okay but never again will I try a pull apart cake.

It was a very busy and fun few weeks for us. We finished off the summer with a trip to the Natural history museum at UNL and then a day trip to Mahone State Park. The kids had so much fun at both. The museum has many cool dinosaur exhibits with life size skeletons.

At Mahone we rented paddle boats, Bailey and I won our race. It was a little nerve wrecking at times because Bailey kept wanting to just get up and walk out of the boat. She didn't understand that she would sink in the water.



Austin (laying down) and Cole (climbing up) were 'hiding' from the water

 



After the paddle boats we headed over to the waterpark. It was so much fun. They have a large wave pool, a kiddie jungle gym in water, and large water slides. It was very crazy in the wave pool-where the kids wanted to be the whole time. I was afraid to let them go too far out because everyone was bumping into each other. It was chaotic but fun.





Austin shoting water out of one of the water guns