Wisconsin Trip

These are a little out of order as this trip was actually in July. Never the less, I wanted to share some of the pictures. Nicholas got a whole week of nothing but trains. We took Amtrak, the metra, visited a train display at the botanical gardens and had a personal tour of an wonderful train display owned by one of Dad and Beth's friends.

Dad, Beth and Nicholas

The entire backyard was one big train display. Nicholas wanted to re-landscape our backyard. Everyone was so patient with him and he got to run all of the trains. He would have stayed ALL DAY!

GoodBye Minnetonka, Our last trip of the season

Last weekend was our last camping trip of the summer, to our favorite place, Porcipine Campground by Bear Lake in Idaho. We had 3 campsites with 9 people. Our normal hiking trail was closed because of prescribed burns (ask me about that story later) so we had decided to visit Bloomington Lake. The pictures of the lake are below.

We found a poor broken tree by the campsite and decided to have the kids decorate it. It got to spend its last days as the official camp tree before going to tree heaven.

Last day of the camping trip. What a dirty motley crew. You need a shave Donnie!

It is firefighter Pat correcting geometry homework and entertaining the dogs. Is ther a fire somewhere?

Hyrum Camping Trip

Our Labor Day adventure began with a trip to Hyrum Lake for Camping and boating. The kids were anxious to use the new float tube behind the boat. This was the trip where I tried unsuccessfully to water ski again. There sure was a difference between 18 and 43, boy I felt old the next day. Here are some pictires of the Nicholas and Jordan enjoying themselves.

Thumbs up means faster Mark. When are we going to start?

Whoo Hoo!!