Family vacation

Our original plan was to take the kids to South Carolina this year for a week's vacation, but when those plans didn't work out we decided on splitting up our vacation into a few days each week and heading to a few places on our bucket list for the summer that we hadn't yet made it to - Bay Beach and Wisconsin Dells.  

We had lots of fun!!

First, it was off to Bay Beach

Alex's first merry go round

The wait for the train was LONG

But once we were on we loved it!

Next we headed to the kiddy rides

Helicopters!!

Boats

Alex took a great nap in his stroller while sissy enjoyed all the short lines on the kiddy rides

Ladybug

Weee

Mommy and sissy headed to the top of the big slide

Wow, it's high up here!

Daddy and Bubbers watched us from the bottom

She was pretty excited to be tall enough to ride the scrambler!!

I was surprised at how brave she was - she loved it!!  And she kept yelling at me to stop holding on to her.  Lol.

That night we spent the night at Oma and Papa's and this guy got the full spa treatment from Oma.

We were hoping to go to the zoo with daddy, but it rained on the way back.  We did get to meet up with Brook and the kiddos for the zoo that week.  

We finally went to check out Stonefire Pizza, too - Makenna loved the rides.

And me and Bubbers worked on our game.

Makenna actually did pretty good at baskeball too.  

I schooled Daddy, even with Alex strapped on.  He, of course, wouldn't be beat so he spent all our tokens until he finally beat me out by one.  Lil bugger.

Uh oh, standing in the tub.

Trouble.

Enjoying our last morning snuggles before she starts 4k

Love these 2!

Part 2:  Trip to the Dells

Well, our trip didn't quite start out as planned.  We had some car troubles and had to drive back home over an hour to switch cars.

Thankfully Daddy could drop me and Alex off at the outlet malls to do a little shopping while he and Makenna drove back home. 

Once we finally got to the Dells, this little one couldn't strip down fast enough - she was ready to swim!!

Let's do it!  Her exact words - This is Super Duper Awesome!!

After a long day, these two crashed and slept great all night!

The next day we walked around the downtown Dells.

Had some fun

And when we got back it was time for a little mommy Kenna GIRL time!

All the outdoor pools closed on Labor Day but we found this one that they had open.  Score!

She really needs to learn how to stand on her tippy toes.

Alex even joined in on the waterpark fun once he woke up from his nap.

Exploring "Chicken-man"

She LOVED the slides this year!

They have a really pretty river walk outside the hotel so we went for a stroll and I got some sweet pics.

Time for one last swim before we head home!!

What a great couple of trips!!  Now it is back to our new routine - school for Makenna, a new sitter for Alex one day a week and back to work for Mommy and Daddy.

What a fun summer!!