October 2024 Fall Break Trip: South Dakota Carol found a cabin to rent in Canton, South Dakota, so we took a kayak and headed north for Fall Break. Luckily the weather was pretty good and the property was right next … Continue reading →
July 2024 RV Trip: Colorado Springs (Continued) The RV trip that we took to Colorado Springs started in June and continued into early July. The kids really enjoyed visiting Garden of the Gods and climbing all over the rock structures. … Continue reading →
January 2023 RV Purchase?!? Nate had signed up for an account on RV Trader and saved a search with very specific criteria for price, mileage, length, etc. He hadn’t been paying real close attention to it because most of the … Continue reading →
October 2021 School Pictures Since Grant (8th grade) and Jenna (2nd grade) did school remotely this year, due to Covid, we took our own school pictures. We also took a picture of Jenna’s primary teacher, Mrs. Dungan. Meeting Baby Cousin … Continue reading →
July 2021 Independence Day It was nice to celebrate the 4th of July with Nate’s parents. Fishing We were able to do some fishing at a nearby lake with Gramma and Pa. Grant had the best luck, catching three fish. … Continue reading →
February 2020 Carol’s Trip Bloomington, IN Carol was able to get away for a long weekend to see her niece Alyssa in Bloomington, Indiana. They enjoyed their time together, touring Bloomington and going to the art museum on campus. I … Continue reading →
Note to Readers: It has been brought to my attention that I have not posted anything in the blog in many, many months. So….here is what we’ve been up to for the last 6 months. It will be mostly pictures … Continue reading →
I was able to get some time off from work this summer to travel back to the Midwest to see family. We divided our trip this year into three parts; Nana’s House, Grandma Bonnie and Grandpa Bob’s House, and Gramma … Continue reading →
The kid’s Spring Break fell closer to the end of March this year. We headed down Florida’s Turnpike for what has become our annual Spring Break trip to “Nana’s Florida House”. We left on the Saturday before the start of … Continue reading →
Every year we try to take a weekend trip to someplace fun before school starts. This year we decided to travel down to Tampa, FL. We checked into the same Embassy Suites that we stayed in a few years ago, … Continue reading →
We decided to take a long weekend and go to St. Augustine before school started. We had a lot of fun at the beach and touring the lighthouse. We also enjoyed our time at the pool at our hotel. Beach: … Continue reading →
On Sunday after breakfast, we drove over to St. Augustine and went through the Alligator Farm Zoological Park. It was quite a nice display of alligators and crocodiles from all over the world. They also had other kinds of reptiles … Continue reading →
We’ve established a bit of a Labor Day weekend tradition, which I really quite enjoy and I hope we can keep it going. Over Labor Day weekend we take a trip to someplace in Florida for the weekend and spend … Continue reading →
From July 15-19 we spent some time in Beatrice, Nebraska for my Dad’s 60th Birthday party. We got to see some family that we hadn’t seen in a while and some that Grant had never met. We enjoyed time at … Continue reading →
The three of us traveled down to Long Key, FL to see Nana and Uncle Charlie, Aunt Laura, Alyssa and Mason. It was nice that we could all be there for a few days together during the time that CLAM … Continue reading →
Today we went on a day trip to Silver Springs, about 45 miles south of Gainesville. They have a little amusement park located on the Silver river where you can take a glass bottom boat ride, see some animals, and … Continue reading →