Summer Fun!!

Yep! Still playing catch up! :)  

So we actually headed out of Laramie at the end of June for some fun elsewhere!  The plan: 1st stop:  Dustin's sister's house in Kanas! From there Grandma would take the boys back to LaCrosse with her, and Dustin and I would go to St. Louis together for his NATA National Convention!  Then back to LaCrosse for 4th of July festivities!  It was a wonderful getaway all around! 

Shawn and Melissa's house is like a total fun zone for us! They have stuff we can't even dream of having: 4 wheelers, horses, jeeps, etc etc!  So here is the fun! 

Here is everyone having fun running through the sprinklers in the front yard!

Gillian and Jack   

 Hanover puts on a seriously AWESOME fireworks show! People come from all over to see it! Everyone just hangs out in the back of their trucks and watches! It was pretty amazing!
Our boys in a fire truck before the show.  Shawn is a fireman, so he has connections! :)

 The kiddos hanging out in the back of the truck waiting for the show!  

The crazy kiddos!  

 Hanging out before the show!  (And me and Z sleeping after the show!)

Shawn and Melissa also have a farm in the fam and they own horses! So fun! Here are the kids checking out the horses!

 Collecting eggs out of the chicken pen area!  No idea what it is really called.... :)

 Horseback riding!  

Shawn bought this awesome old carriage. He gave us rides on it and it was super fun! It is really neat looking too!  How fun would that be to have at your wedding?

We also went swimming!  

 Jack being brave on the diving board!

 Went for rides in Shawn's new Jeep!  

 Played on Gillian's new swing set, made mini pizzas, went for a 4 wheeler ride!  So much fun! I tell you - It is a FUN ZONE at their house!  My kids (and Dustin and I) were in heaven with all the fun stuff to do! :)  

 Jack driving Gillian's little jeep, saying hi to the horses again, the kids by the jeep, and me trying out the deer hunting thing.....once again, I have no idea what it is called....Dang city girl!  
Clearly we had some tuckered out kiddos and tuckered out Daddies after all of the fun!

It is seriously always such a fun time when we go to Shawn and Melissa's house!