We've been keeping pretty busy this summer and I'm afraid August may be even busier. Fun fun!! We've visited some fun places, local and a couple hours away. (Be prepared - there are lots of pics!)
Butterfly House
This is at Cox Arboretum in Dayton. They only have this open 1-2 months during the year and it's full of butterflies. It's really cool. During the off months they have volunteers take the butterflies and/or caterpillars home and 'babysit' them.
Checking out a caterpillar.
Some of the butterflies and caterpillars we saw.
This one was huge and blended so well our eyes skipped right over it.
Connor and Matt kid the kids maze. It's great, all the shrubs are to the knee on an adult so you don't get lost - my kind of maze!
Watching the boys (sometimes).
Swim Lessons
Connor did Preschool Level 1 for 2 weeks this past July. He loved it and improved and passed! Yay!!
At the beginning he would barely get his chin wet and look at him now! Good job Connor!
Safety lesson
Fun with friends
We met up with some friends (Madison, Michael, Brian, and Peyton) for Brian's birthday.
Ya, granny style!
Briella in her cute dress that our friend gave her for her birthday. (Random, I know!)
Connor and Guy having fun! Such goof balls!
Trying to be serious.
Our neighbor and friends moved this past Friday to Dover Delaware. We'll miss them! Connor and Guy had lots of fun together (good conversation too.)
Indianapolis
This past weekend we went to Indianapolis for a short family vacation. We've been wanting to go for a while now and we finally went. We visited the Children's museum, it was great! And Bumblebee was there to greet us - it was pretty cool! This is the actual one they used in the movie 'Transformers' in 2009. So cool! He's huge!!!
We visited the Dinosaurs
Connor went digging for fossils
Put together a dinosaur puzzle
Going scuba diving! (Papa Booth will be so proud!! We're starting young!)
Then on to the Hotwheels exhibit.
Tim (Joe's dad) - we thought of you the whole time!)
Testing the ramps
Briella needed some exercise. :)
Crazy drivers!
(Check out the cool purple car in the background.)
Cool cars
Briella found a friend. :) It was great, they had a play area for 24 months and under, fenced off, so they could just play and go where ever.
My family will appreciate this pic!! :) Doesn't it remind you of another picture???!!!
Next we visited Egypt. Connor and Briella ready for dinner in Egypt.
Daddy and kids along the Nile river.
Cookie break
In the fun house - which one is the real Connor??
We went to a play while at the museum. They did an adaptation of 'How I became a Pirate', it was so cute and Connor liked it. It was his first play!
Waiting for Daddy and Briella to pick us up.
(After lunch Matt took Briella back to the hotel so she could take a nap and Connor and I stayed at the museum for more fun.)
Saturday before we left we went to the NCAA Hall of Champions. (We thought it was going to be the NCAA basketball hall of fame - yup, we were wrong!)
It was interesting, but kind of a let down because it wasn't what we thought. But we still got to do some fun stuff.
Our future track star.
It was great to try a lot of the sports equipment and see the different sports because we've been watching the Olympics a lot the past 2 weeks. (So sad they are done.) :(
He really liked watching swimming during the Olympics.
Briella had to try also. She's such a little fish!
We ate lunch along the river outside the Hall of Champions. And then headed home.
We were downtown and discovered downtown Indianapolis is really nice. We were impressed.
