Airplane and Car Show

The Kenosha airport held an airplane and car show a few weeks ago.  Jon took the boys along with our neighbors and their 3 year old son Matthew.  I of course had to work :(  Jon said it was really neat.  They got to look at all the airplanes up close and see some cool cars.  They had some airplanes taking off and landing near by.  I guess they also got to walk through the hangars.  Jackson thought it was pretty cool.  Here are my favorites of the pictures Jon took. 

Jackson and Matthew

Jackson looking in with the help of Mike!

Garden Update

Our garden is coming along quite nicely considering the drought conditions we've been having.  We have already gotten 6-7 green peppers, lot's of cherry tomatoes, a zucchini the size of my arm (no joke!), green beans and a tomato.  It's been fun going out there to see the progress and pick our veggies. Jack loves it and he likes the cherry tomatoes the best.  Many are gone by the time we get home!
Here's some updated photos.  I'm going to have tons of tomatoes soon so I'm going to be busy canning salsa shortly.

The pickings from the latest trip to the garden.  This picture does not do that zucchini justice!  It literally is the size of my forearm!  

Lemonade Stand

Lemonade Stand!

Jack has wanted to do a lemonade stand this summer so we put it on our bucket list.  We decided to do a yard sale since we had so much junk to get rid of!  I thought it would be a perfect time to have him do a lemonade stand.  Grandma made the cute little signs for him.  And some how we went from having just a lemonade stand to also involving cookies.  That was clearly Jon's idea in hopes there would be leftovers.  It was also extremely hot so he sold waters as well.  He was quite the salesman!  Every person that came up he said "Would you like to buy a cookie or some lemonade?"   It was so cute!  His cuteness must have won over some people since he made almost $18 and we sold it all for 50 cents!

We also had a pretty good turn out for our yard sale and all in all I'm glad that we did it!  Plus the house feels roomier now with out all that stuff around that we didn't need.  I will most likely do this again next year.

Side note:  Please forgive any misspellings or grammar mistakes.  I'm writing this in a causal setting so I'm assuming no one cares, except of course my husband who pointed out all of my typos!  So here's my disclaimer to everyone, this blog will not be perfect!  I will not proof read since I will have plenty of that to do this fall when I start back up with Grad School.  Thanks for understanding! :)

#4 & #5

First I just want to apologize for taking so long to get my next posts out.  It's been crazy at work lately and I come home so tired that I usually fall asleep right after I put the boys to bed!  We've been keeping very busy lately though with lots of new fun things.  Mostly indoor activities since it's been way to hot to do anything else these days.  Here's our latest bucket list adventures:

#4-Go to the rodeo!

We traveled back home over Father's Day weekend and took Jack to the Stanley Rodeo Days.  It was really exciting.  My sister, Matt, Michael and Carter joined us as well as my dad.  Grandma stayed home with Bentley and got some snuggle time with him.  It was a pretty good rodeo.  I was curious how Jack would do but he really seemed to enjoy it.  He asked a lot of questions and thought the animals were neat.  He also got a kick out of the rodeo clown!

I also forgot to mention, the only thing Jon wanted for Father's Day this year was to go home to the rodeo to get the famous Stanley JC's cheese curds!  They are to die for and we made sure that we got them on numerous occasions!  YUMMM!

#5-Bowling

We've been wanting to take Jack bowling for quite some time.  So I was driving by our bowling alley, which is right down the road, in May and there was a sign that said kids bowl free all summer!  So I thought, well now's the time!  It's actually a great deal.  You pay $25 for 4 adults, and any amount of kids.  Those 4 adults and kids bowl free all summer through September 30!  You can't beat that.  You go one time and it's paid for believe it or not.  Bowling is not cheap!  You just have to pay for shoes but Jon and I have shoes.  Jack doesn't really need any but he gets a kick out of them so we pay the $2.50, and he looks adorable in them!  You get 2 free games everyday.  We have taken him twice so far and it's great because 2 games is just enough.  He's usually getting tired near the end anyway.  If we don't even bowl all the games we don't have to feel bad since we aren't paying.  He really enjoyed it and he can't wait to go again.  Here's some pictures!

He was so proud of his orange ball!

Dad explained the importance of not sticking your hand in the tunnel and to be careful not to get your fingers pinched.

Ready, Set, Roll!

And we wait!  Sometimes he got impatient waiting for his ball to reach the end.

High fiving with Mom for a job well done.

This is what Bentley though of bowling at first!

Then he woke up and was his happy laid back self.

Final scores!  As you can see none of us did that well!  Jon blamed it on the bumpers since he has a pretty wicked curve ball that he couldn't get going since it kept hitting them.  I don't really have an excuse although I did get better the second game and did much better the second time we went.  Maybe by the end of the summer I'll break 150!  Ha!


More to come soon!  Take care,
Caitlen