Summer 2010

Well, again I have been lax on blogging. It isn't that I don't think about it. I really do. I have lots of blogs written in my head, but they just don't seem to make it out of my head and into my blog. So, here I go again, trying to get going at it again.

We all had a very busy summer, starting the very day that school got out. Skyler was whisked away on a train in the middle of the night to go to Colorado with his grandparents. He was there for about 5 days and he had a ball. I write about all of his adventures there in a separate post.

When he came back from that we all left for a family vacation in South Dakota. We had a lot of fun, but we did way too much stuff and were exhausted when we came back. Again, this will be a separate post.

After that, we were home for a bit and then Skyler was off to Wichita to spend the week with his aunt. Actually I think he was really just done there to hang with his friend all week, but you never know.

The next week my sister came up here to hang out. She kept us busy!

So, in between all of that crazy stuff, we tried to pack in some fun summer stuff!

• Skyler played coached pitched baseball for the first time and he loved it! He really made progress in his basic baseball skills and is very excited to continue with baseball next summer.

• We went to Railroad Days and instead of going to the Lauritzen Gardens, we went to the Durham Western Heritage Museum. They had the Boyscouts of America commemorative locomotive there, but also all kinds of other fun stuff! I love the old "Omaha" display, which is where Chuck, Lily, and I are posing in this picture. Wish I could have that house! Skyler and Lily got to pose as old time peeps here too, aren't they handsome!

• We also went to the cheap $2 kid movies at Twin Creek almost every week. We all love this. The ticket prices are great, the movies are just for kiddos, and they get popcorn and water included in the price of the ticket!
• We went skating every week and Skyler made huge progress in the area of skating. He advanced from regular skates to inlines and is ready for inline hockey this fall. He is sooooo excited about that.
• We went bowling once a week too. Kidsbowlfree is a great program that allowed the kids to bowl 2 free games daily. We only went once a week because the bowling alley was not really that close, but they loved it and had fun.
• We got this great Go Play! Adventure book. It 25 locations in it where you can go and investigate and each place has a specific symbol that you can make a rubbing of in your book. There are also a few extra pages where you can create your own adventure and we did one at Boystown. We visited the Hall of fame musuem, the chapel, and Father Flanagan's house, which is where the picture of the kids sitting at school desk was taken. We made a rubbing of one the Boystown bricks in our book.
• We visited the splash park, Papio Bay, and Mahoney State Park's water park.
• We also went to the final Friday night Blast at the Blatt for the Omaha Royals. We had so much fun, it was Star Wars night and we got to see Darth Vader and all of his friends! The fireworks were awesome, set to Star Wars music. The picture of Skyler and I was taken at the game.

Well, that is about it for now. Some future posts will include more pictures from our summer fun, posts about our vacation to South Dakota, and first day of school pictures1