End of summer fun

These last few weeks of summer vacation, we've crammed in LOTS of fun. After painting Megan's room, we drove down to Ohio to pick up the girls, and drove on to Wheaton. I forgot my camera's memory card that trip, so I don't have any pics, but we had a great time. We collected honey from the hives, played at the park, hung out with Uncle JoJo, Auntie Nancy, and Tashi, went to a children's garden, etc. It was such a fun weekend!

The past week and a half, I've taken the girls to the pool, a farm, a waterpark, a history museum, Ikea, the cider mill, the beach, and a nature center and park. And we managed to squeeze in a walk and/or a bike ride nearly every day. School starts tomorrow, so we had to squeeze in a lot of fun while we could!


Katie, Megan, and Jess as farm animals.



More animals.



We spent about an hour in the dairy barn, watching them milk the cows. They remembered watching it at the Ohio fair, and explained all the details to me. The farmer was super nice and answered all of our questions.



Girls and chickens.

Girls and friends feeding the donkey.

Jessi modeling her new dress and shades from Uncle Joe, Auntie Erica, and Carter.

Love this SASSY t-shirt!

Girls at the waterpark. We spent five hours there, and it was sunny and over 90 the whole time! We had such fun in the wave pool, the lazy river, and the splashy playground. We'll definitely go back next year!

Katie saved up her allowance for several weeks to buy this pioneer dress for her American Girl doll. There's a woman in downtown Rochester who sews pioneer garb for adults, children, and dolls, and Katie's had her eye on this outfit for a lonnggg time. It almost exactly matches her outfit! She is still obsessed with all things pioneer...she watches Little House on the Prairie whenever she can, she is thinking of what to buy next (metal lunch pail? slate and chalk? pioneer toys?), and she is ironing out the details of her Halloween costume (pioneer girl, of course). She says we are all going trick-or-treating as the Ingalls family, and we'll convert the wagon into a covered wagon for Jessi! I think it sounds like fun, but I don't know if Chris will play along or not...

School starts tomorrow, so our carefree days are over. It has been a fun summer, and we're looking forward to the new fun we'll have with school, field trips, soccer, ballet, etc etc. Look for first-day-of-school pics coming this week and next!