Treinen Farm

Scott, Avery, Laura, Tony and I had a blast going to The Treinen Family Farm today. This farm has WI biggest corn maze, a pumpkin patch, farm animals, and a playground. The corn maze was fun because you are given a blank map and you have to find the puzzle pieces within the maze. Each piece has another part of the puzzle. Once you find the whole map, you can decide to continue on and find 8 more secret locations. Only about 2% of the people find all 8 locations. We only found 7 and were bummed! We had so much fun and I would recommend this maze to anyone!





This a 20 x 10 box full of corn. When I stood Avery up it was past his knees.


Avery liked playing in the giant sandbox until he spotted the chicken. After that, he just wanted to chase the chicken.

Finger Painting.....

or in Avery's case I think it is called body painting.

Raising money for a cure, 1 mile at a time....

On Saturday Scott, Avery, and I joined Grandpa and a few other family members to take part in the Alzheimer's walk. We wanted to walk in honor of Grandma, who had Alzheimer's, and to help raise money. It was a beautiful day and in total, all teams there raised over $42,ooo. Thanks to those of you who joined in one way or another.

A visit with Grandma and Grandpa Davis

At the end of the summer we took a trip up to Washburn to visit with Grandma and Grandpa. We all had a great time- I know it's going to be one of Avery's favorite places.

We enjoyed a hike in Bayfield.


You can tell he just woke up!




We enjoyed ice cream in Bayfield, Avery enjoyed the cone.


He loves sand. He played in his own sand pool for hours.


We took the boat out and had an island to ourselves for the day.


This picture was funny because he looks so small. He would have kept going by himself if someone wouldn't have gone to get him.


Life is perfect if you have a stick!

It's done!

Scott and I have been working on making a new coffee table for the last month. We were really excited when we found the perfect piece of wood last fall at a saw mill. We envisioned a coffee table with a stream and I'm happy to say that it's finally done!


It started out looking like this. The board was cheap because there was a crack in the middle. However, that is what we loved about it! That crack makes the perfect stream.


The stream is made from blue epoxy.

Just some pictures

He was so proud of himself when he saw his picture on the computer.


Who taught him that sign?


If only this could still be cool in another 10 years!


Superman meets Barbie. He found my grandma's pink scarf in my drawer and was running around with it. I made it into a cape and he instantly ran with his arms back to make it fly.

The Great Outdoors

Last week the four of us set out on a five day camping trip. At least five days was the plan. We were supposed to go to Door county and camp at Newport state park this year but the 9 solid days of rain and flooding here made us decide against going there. Instead we went to the Porcupine Mountains in Michigan- one of our favorite places to enjoy nature. Avery loved camping especially the getting dirty part of it. He always seemed to find piles of dirt and mud puddles. I put him in play clothes and watched him explore. The first few days there the weather was pleasant there weren't any bugs. We enjoyed a few waterfall hikes and played in the river near our campsite. We would have played in Lake Superior if the water hadn't been in the lower 40's. You couldn't even stand in it. By day three, biting black flies decided to join our camping party. There weren't all that many on day three and we were able to shoo them away. However, by day four there were thousands of them and we couldn't leave our screen area. We left our car open when we were packing and you couldn't even see the dash because there were so many flies on it. It took us days to get them out. On Monday night there was a really bad storm. The lightning and thunder looked more like a strobe light at a concert and there was three inches of rain in our tent. Scott, Avery and I rode out the storm on our air mat. We would have gone to our car like all of the other tent campers there, but our car was packed full of things and there was no room for us. The lightning struck three trees in the site next to us. I've never heard lightning strike anything- it's really loud. The funniest part- Avery slept through the whole storm and Venus was so scared she wouldn't move. She was laying on her soaking wet bed next to the door, getting dripped on and she wouldn't move. After the storm, we decided to pack up and leave. The flies had gotten worse and there wasn't anything left dry. Despite all of this, we still had fun and look forward to another camping trip next year.



This hike was near the waterfalls



We had this beach to ourselves


Getting dirty. If the picture were better, you could see the dirt all over his face.


He loves water!


His face sums up what we all thought of those black flies.


Avery discovered a juice box.