The Enslinger Family: July - What a crazy month!

So Dustin and I arrived to Kansas! The boys had been having a great time at Grandma and Grandpa's house all week! I don't even know if they were that excited to see us! I missed them though!

One day we decided to take the boys over to Hays and see the Sternberg Museum.

Here we are posing as a family at the museum!

Love Z's smile in this one!

Me and the boys with some giant dinosaur leg bones!

Feeding our sons to the giant dinosaur! :)

More highlights of the museum: the boys saying hi to a giant tortoise that looked like it wanted to eat them, Daddy and his scared boys by the giant T-rex that actually moves and roars when you walk past, me sticking my head in a dino's mouth, and the boys digging for fossils.

Fun back in LaCrosse: Getting a fork lift ride from Grandpa down at the Lumberyard.

And a riding lawn mower ride!

Picking yummy stuff our of Great Grandpa's amazing garden!

And then the 4th of July! Kansas, especially the Enslingers really know how to celebrate the 4th! We had another wonderful BBQ and of course, the FIREWORKS!

Smoke bombs and roman candles! Looks safe, right!? :)

Me having fun doing snakes with all the kids!

Our fam watching the fireworks!

A few weeks before we headed out to Kansas, Dustin's Grandpa suffered a stroke. He was having a hard time with talking, moving, and was having horrible swelling. Thankfully we were able to go visit him at the hospital while we were out there.

Jack and Zander with their Great Grandpa Enslinger

What a neat picture we were able to capture: 4 generations of Enslinger men!

Dustin with his Grandpa

While we were home for a bit in July, we got to do some fun things as a family:

We went swimming

And went to Jubilee Days and rode on the Carnival rides. Z was so excited to be big enough to go on rides this year! Yes we rode so hard Jack puked and I had to lay down cuz I was so sick! Good times! :)

After we went home, Grandpa's condition quickly deteriorated and he passed away just a few weeks after we came back to Wyoming. We are so thankful that we were able to see him, visit with him, and get some last photographs with him before he died. Grandpa is truly an amazing man! So we headed back to Kansas to attend his funeral. He was such a loved and respected man. His funeral was beautiful and it was neat to see the outpouring of love from everyone that knew him. He accomplished some amazing things in his life and was such an amazing example of hard work and love of family. What a wonderful opportunity it was to celebrate his life!

Here are some other fun pics from our second visit to Kansas!

A couple of days after we got home from Kansas, it was off to Evanston for the Belnap Familiy Reunion! We had so much fun hanging out at camp, eating dinner in the rain, playing games, doing Zumba, eating delicious meals, paddle boating in the lake, fishing for crawdads, and camping out!