Kentucky

This last weekend Scott, Avery, and I and Amanda's family took a road trip to Kentucky to visit our siblings. It was a little over an 8 hour drive that we broke up into 2 days. Avery did a fantastic job in the car. I think I was a little more impatient at times than he was.

We started out the weekend geocaching because we had to drop off the jeep bug we picked up in WI.


We all played a great game of kickball.


Avery loves his aunt Amy and aunt Nicki. He hung out with them the whole time. I don't think I spent much time with him!

The gang- Daniel age 19, Nicki age 17, and Amy age 15.


The little boy in the picture is their brother Jacob.


Trying to get all of us on this statute took quite awhile.




We all enjoyed a bonfire on Saturday night.

Happy 29th Scott!

To an amazing husband and daddy- we love you. To honor you on your birthday: things we love about you.
1. Hardworking- worked on our current home, remodeling the whole thing it in only 2 weekends so Avery and I could move into a nice home.
2. Fantastic woodworker- makes beautiful furniture out of fallen down logs.
3. Makes AMAZING homemade food- my favorite are his desserts and made up recipes like his artichoke dip.
4. Has a great sense of humor and can always make us laugh.
5. Creative- came up with a restaurant with sign and all to take me out to a nice restaurant.
6. Loves trying out new things- decided to buy rock climbing equipment when we were married even though neither of us had tried it. We both love it now!
7. Loves an adventure- will jump at the chance to go on a fun hike or backpacking trip.
8. Loves Avery and I and spoils us- always putting us before himself.
9. Is smart and loves learning- currently in school to learn another profession.
10. Willing to help out anyone in need.
11. Gives a great foot massage.
12. Cuts my hair- He learned to do this by watching the hairstylist on our honeymoon.
13. Loves to exercise and stay healthy- can do more pull-ups than I can, but I'm catching up!
14. Makes up fun games- my favorite so far was the spit wad contest!
15. It great with our finances and loves helping others to do theirs so they spend their money wisely.
16. Is trustworthy.
17. Plans fun surprises for Avery and I. This year he made me a scavenger hunt and had prizes hid at each clue.
18. He's so much fun to be around.
19. He's forgiving- some days he's forgiven me several times in a day!
20. Takes time out to enjoy the little things in life.

Along came a ferret....

It's finally Geocaching Season

We spent a great weekend finding some fantastic cache's. If you don't remember what geocaching is, look here.On one adventure we went to Token Creek and found a travel bug. The hike there was beautiful. We saw a really big tree in the woods that we never would have seen had we not been looking for this cache. The travel bug we found ended up being a jeep. It was a bug that was actually sponsored by Jeep. If we had found it last year, we could have entered a contest to win a real one! The second geocache adventure was at Devil's Lake. Avery loved this cache because he got to take a ball that lights up when you throw it. We also found a geo-coin that had originated in Switzerland, went to the UK and then to WI. We are hoping to take it to North Carolina when we go and leave it in a cache there. We are going to leave the jeep in a cache in Kentucky when we go to visit my siblings in a few weeks.

Painting, toddler style

Painting with marbles


Painting by blowing through straws