4th of July

Can't believe the 4th of July is past us already!!  Summer is flying by!  Once again, we spent the 4th of July at the Lake and my family came to spend the day with us.  It was a crazy-busy weekend, but super fun!

Thursday night we took a fun pontoon ride on the Lake.  The water was calm and the weather was beautiful!

On Friday,the 4th, we went to Nick's aunt and uncle's home on Lake Florida north of Willmar.  They had a family get-together and we got to see Nick's other aunt and uncle from Arizona. 

The kids in their red, white and blue - this is the best I could get all day!

 Julianne's fancy Star hair-do!

Friday night we headed back to the Lake and watched the fireworks over the Lake.  No need to go to a show - we have our own show right over our lake.  I wonder how much $$$ some of those people spend on fireworks!

Jules with her sparkler

Saturday the rest of my family came to spend the day.  We had a good day - took stroller rides, watched the kids play in the pool and the sprinkler, took a pontoon ride (aka - floating naps for all three kids!), ate like there was a famine coming, and had lots of fun!

Alissa and Henry 

 Mr. Will in his chair

A Jules and Mommy selfie! 

Life is better on the pontoon! 

The kids had fun on the trampoline!

Another 4th in the books!! 

Mudstock

We made our annual trip to Winstock again this year in mid-June.  It's our mini-vacation without the kiddos where we get to act like we are 20 again and be irresponsible!! So much fun!  Well, Friday was fun anyway - the weather was beautiful.  But Saturday was a mess. It rained almost all day.  The campgrounds were really muddy and most of the shows were cancelled because of lightning.  But it was a good time like usual - it's the one time a year we get to see so many of our friends!

My bestie - Megan! 

Ashley and Dan also made it to Winstock this year.  It was fun hanging out with them! 

This is what our campground looked like.  We had about 6 inches of water all around our camper on Sunday morning.  Trying to get out of there was not fun!  We got stuck twice and had to be pulled out. 

Note to self - don't wear flip-flops in the mud - bring rain boots next year!

Summertime fun

In June we spent the perfect summer day outside playing in the water!  

First we started off at home on the slip'n slide.  It was all fun and games until the mosquitoes drove us nuts and Julianne popped the slip'n slide!  

Jules wanted to "pose" for her picture 

Will jumped in the water before I could get his swim trunks on him. He's such a boy!!  

After naptime, we headed to the Gaylord pool and met grandma, grandpa, Alissa and Henry there.  It was so fun!!  That pool and Aquatic Center is amazing - worth the 40 minute drive.  Plus it's only 20 minutes from Grandma and Grandpa's house so we usually have a pit stop there!  I even ran into my college roommate Ann there.  It was fun seeing her family again!

Snack time 

Henry and Will having freezies! 

 They have a fun zero entry pool for the kids and have a small slide.  Just perfect for Jules to do by herself.  They also have two big water slides and she loved going down those too - unless Grandma doesn't hold her up high enough and she goes under the water!

Will had a ball trying to "catch" the water fountains!

Time to go - till next time!