What a great weekend! The girls and I chilled at home on Friday night and watched Mamma Mia for the 26th time. Sat morning I took Rachel to the Downtown Farmers Market. We were there for almost 3 hours and only saw half of the vendors. Rachel enjoyed all the dogs walking around and I picked up a few good deals. Afterwards we stopped by Sonic and picked up lunch. We took it to Jones Park and enjoyed a nice picnic outside by one of the ponds. We spread out a blanket and enjoyed some sunshine and after we ate we walked around the pond and looked for frogs. When we got home we packed our bags and the girls and I went back to Cascade to see Aunt Sarah and Scott went to a concert. Rachel was SO excited to see Aunt Sarah again.

Saturday we slept in, played outside, went to the pool for a few hours and Rachel and I took a gator ride with Grandpa down to the back woods...and almost got stuck. A perfect day! Sunday we met up with Sarah and her nephews, Sam and Ben, and took all of them to the River Museum in Dubuque. Annie went totally crazy the minute we walked in and she saw the huge aquarium. She ran over to the turtles and started screaming. Needless to say the rest of the visit was spent chasing her around from exhibit to exhibit. We stopped by Happy Joes for lunch and ate some much needed BLT & Taco pizza...awesome. Next stop, Grand Harbor Water Park. The kids enjoyed a few hours of swimming before we headed back home. Annie went down a few of the larger slides with me and Rachel was thrilled to have Jena all to herself. Quick stop at DQ for some ice cream and a quiet ride home.

Grandma & Grandpa Strang are going to take Rachel camping later in the week. They have a whole bunch of activities planned for her so I'm sure she'll come home exhausted. She's excited to have a few days with G&G and no little sister around to bug her.

Happy Anniversary Mom & Dad, hope you enjoyed your day!




River Museum


Grandma's barn quilt


Annie enjoying sweet corn and yelling at
us about something.