Summer Wrap Up

For weeks months now I've been meaning to get caught up on a few end of summer trips and activities that haven't made the blog yet.  Since I kind of missed the boat on those, I thought I'd just tell the story in (mostly) pictures instead of words this time.

Douglas County Fair
This year's fair fell right over the weekend that Jackson was scheduled to spend at Gram's house.  We had exactly one night between me getting home from a business trip and Jackson heading west to Gram's to take advantage of the petting zoo, rides, carnival and fair food.  We gave Daddy the night off (since he had been on solo duty all week while I was in St. Louis) and hit the fairgrounds!


Pony rides

Motorcycle - His Favorite

SUV

 

Bugs

Spaceship

Ferris Wheel with Mom

Aerial View

Colorado
Just a week or so later we loaded up in the truck and headed to Colorado for a vacation at Nana & Papa's house.  Drew & I got to do lots of grown up things while we had grandparents, aunts and uncles available to watch the little man.  Like a trip to Matt's bar and dinner at Del's with Mom & Dad, visits to Drew and my favorite stores, and an overnight trip to Vail.  Of course, there were lots of family activities too from golf (both real and miniature glow-in-the-dark) to swimming to movies to cook outs to dinner at Castle Cafe and lots of courtyard time. My kind of vacation!

Road Trip - I don't know how kids can stand that!

Little dude was pretty good at air hockey!

Skee Ball

The very scary animated tree that sent us running off the miniature golf course in fear never to return.

Vail

This cracks me up.  3 people.  3 iPads.

Our first ever trip to a photo booth.  I made him do it.

Lake Okoboji
Finally, our last trip of the summer took us to Lake Okoboji, IA for my cousin Todd's wedding.  Drew had to sit this one out so Jack and I made our way to Omaha where we connected with Mom and Dad.  What a great weekend!  Of course, the bride and groom were stunning (how do I not have pictures of them?!) and the wedding was beautiful.  But the best part was having the whole family together.

Doing the heavy lifting.

Morning coffee (or water)

Handsome in his new tie, but not thrilled about the photo op

I wish I had my fancy camera to zoom in on this moment.  Papa was fixing Jack's tie.

Blue-eyed Jack and his biggest fan

Me and my guy

The Fabulous Diers Girls - Nancy, Mary, Deb, Lori, Carol - Can you tell they're sisters?

 

My Nana & Papa.  Can you believe they raised 5 daughters and still look that good?!

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Remember the 2012 Summer Bucket List we started way back in June?  I'd say we did pretty darn good!  Originally, there were 17clothespins on the bucket and only 6 remain. 

As luck would have it, many of the activities we didn't get to are indoors so we can easily check them off the list this winter when we're fighting a case of cabin fever and looking for something to do.

And now we can officially put Summer to bed!