Vacation Day 2

The day after we went to the zoo we went whit water rafting as a family.
We were very much looking forward to this adventure, and boy was it.
Josh and I and Merci paddled our hearts out for 11.5 miles.
There were tears, there were many times we gave up and there was fun in between.
We needed a bit more man power and bigger rapids, I cannot wait to go with some adults to bigger rapids!


Our little look out.
E was not help paddling, since the paddle was twice as big as him, so he sat on the front of the raft to watch for rocks=)

After lots of screaming and crying we finally got E to get off the raft into the water-we went on the family float and the rapids were nothing to fear, so much of the trip was calm water, so we swam a lot.
(60 degrees...brrr, but it was mid 90's so it felt really good!)

=)

My love.
My heart flutters just to look at him.
I am forever grateful for this man.

The scenery was beautiful all around.
It was so peaceful amidst all the hard work of paddling for 11 miles.
My arm sure did ache for days.

Vacation Day 1

The weekend before school started (Aug 15-17) we were finally able to go on a mini vacation.
We left on Saturday and went to the Pittsburgh zoo.
It was nice to visit a different zoo (and for free with our zoo membership!!)


Look at his lip they are hilarious!
I caught him in mid chew...lol

They had a underwater tunnel where at the polar bear exhibit, and we were fortunate enough to see one swimming around!

Kind of a blurry yet cool picture of Mr Polar bear!

Piranhas at the really nice aquarium.

I miss having penguins at our zoo, they are so cute!

We paid big buck to have this picture taken and we also got to pet her, it was so neat though, and E loves elephants.

Look at the elephants trunk...Merci must have smelled good=)

We are back

I didn't publicize too much that we were leaving for vacation.
But we are back now! July 5-12 we went to Michigan where I have been going on vacation since I was a wee little one.
Nothing special, tiny little cabin, bugs, bugs, lake and more bugs.
it has meaning to us and holds many dear memories so that is what keeps us coming back.

As you know we bought a jet ski this year, so it was great to be able to jump on that whenever we wanted, and actually we bought a 2nd one which I never mentioned, so it was double the fun=)

Here are a few pictures I really liked!
I will post more this week.



Me and my babes!



We enjoy Superman ice cream since
we can't find it much around here.


Some scenery of the lake.



Up close and personal with the dragonfly's



E LOVES the jet ski, "Let's do tricks" is all he said!



My kids turned into fish tis week and wouldn't leave the water!