vacation part 3

we ate sooo much dessert! it was excellent! this was friday at noon ... just getting started with forced family fun

we ended up just borrowing a fire pit from adam's friend. it worked great. we found out that both my sister in laws loved there marshmallows burnt to a crisp ... i guess they aren't 100% converted to being chipmans yet. but we still love them!

adam borrowed a projector from his church so we projected a movie onto our garage door. aunt pat, grandma, and mom stayed in the car because it was chilly out. we put the subtitles on so they could still follow along without the neighbors hearing it :)

saturday we headed down to brownville, ne to have an hour boat ride on the spirit of brownville. grandma even came with! then we stopped at a winery to taste wine and ate at rick's cafe and boatyard in omaha.

here we are ready to get on a boat ride in the missouri river.

sunday afternoon adam, anne, and i played basketball at the new wellness center. i was a bit rusty at first, but we only lost 8 to 15 (so we had 3 people and the winning team only had 2 but whatever ....)

sunday night grandma, grandpa, and aunt cathy came over to hang out. we ended up in a hopping game of tripoly.

vacation part 2

out with the treehouse, in with a fire pit

this is my dad in the tractor and my bro assisting

our treehouse was pretty unsafe due to rotting wood and all so it needed to be taken down anyway.... so tuesday was the day

once upon a time it had a sandbox underneath, but now it's pretty much a weed box. we'll be making a fire there tomorrow night and roasting hot dogs and marshmallows :)

we'll see how it works ... last night while it was pouring i was wondering if we might be eating, watching a movie, and sleeping inside instead of out ... oh well it will still be fun

vacation part 1

yeah for vacation!!

my college roomie had her first baby just in time for me to see him before i left ames. his name is Elijah Joel and I'm stoked to get to know him more as he grows! i'm exited to see Bjo and Curtis learn how to parent!

cute little man

Amy and I went to the zoo. we could tell that it was a monday during the school year since it was us and a ton of people under the age of 5. the animals were way more active than normal which was pretty sweet ... maybe they were exited for smaller crowds-we were.

this is a lemur in a new Madagascar exhibit. you walk in and they can run everywhere (hence the clean you hands sign). it was fun ... they said one of the lemurs escaped a few weeks ago.

Amy and a shark!

The jungle

the gorillas were sooo much fun. i could have watched them all day. one was splashing in the water, another would have knocked a few of my teeth out (or my head off) if there wasn't glass between us, and another spent the whole time we were watching him trying to get something out of his teeth.

let's just say it took us a long time for us to take a pic of ourselves with the giraffes in the background ... but mission accomplished.

cute little 2 month old tiger!

more pics to come .... enjoy!