Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Memorial Day and Ben's Birthday

We were graciously invited to spend Memorial Day weekend in Fond du Lac with Ben, Shannon, and girls. We had a great time and enjoyed seeing FdL.

Saturday we went to a place called Monkey Joe's that has a whole bunch of inflatables. Russell hated it, so he spent his time with this. And, playing the basketball arcade game.
 Meghan walked all over the place. She is now officially a walker instead of a crawler.
 Then we went to check out Lake Winnebago and play at the awesome park on it's shores. Ben and I both really loved the lake and the park, which is conveniently only a couple blocks from Ben and Shannon's house.

Lake Winnebago
 We spent about an hour playing at the park. It had exercise equipment along the jogging path, and all us adults took a turn trying some out.

Uncle Ben was pretty popular, especially with Holly.

And pushing the merry-go-round thing.
 Ben had to warm up to blow his candles out. The girls were impressed by all the smoke. Too bad there were only about half the candles on his cake. It would have been a lot more smoke if all 36 candles on it.
 Monday we went downtown and watched the Memorial Day parade. Everyone enjoyed it.
 Russell really liked all of the cars and trucks that drove by, and yelled out what each one was. He was impressed by the big fire trucks.
 I got in good driving practice in preparation for our big summer trip.


4 comments:

Emily said...

Are thou driving to Arizona this summer?

Joanna said...

Yes. By way of Texas. Then home by way of Utah and South Dakota.

Jacob said...

Fond du Lac is pretty cool.

It took me a long time to figure out how old Ben was when Jacob asked.

Emily said...

Cool. Next summer you can plan your big trip to the east coast.