First Day of school

First day of school for our 2nd grader and our kindergarten. I think Luke was excited to ride the bus more then going to school.  I hope they have a wonderful first day of school.  It should be a great 2014-2015 school year.

Trapper John's

This week we wanted to take some road trips around Ohio before the boys headed back to school.  Today's idea was to take the boys on a canoeing trip down the Big Darby river.  We had some very inquisitive and excited boys about the trip.  We headed out on the river around 11 am. No more then half hour into the trip Kurt caught a bass and about 10 minutes later he got other bass.  That would be our only fish for the day.  Dad had several go backers, and Luke fished a little and helped Mom row the boat.  Dad had a little help with rowing maybe for 10 mins. Then Kurt went back to fishing. We did make a couple of stops to have lunch, swim, creek, and net crayfish. We got back down to our stop around 3:30.  It was a fun, relaxing, and all around great day.

  

Traps

Back at Grandma and Pappy's house they have lots of deer who like to come eat their apples and vegetables in the garden.  The boys told Grandma not to worry they will take care of the "deer problem". They spend the rest of the evening planning and building their traps for the deer.  Now they wait to see if they get one.

Fair food

During the Ohio Sate Fair I took Luke down to enjoy some yummy fair food.  We had fresh cut fries, cheese sticks, and Der Dutchman noodle with mashed potatoes.  But Luke was very happy when he found Bacon on a stick.  Yes bacon on a stick, you could dip it in chocolate or leave it pain.  Luke likes bacon, I mean to say Luke LOVES bacon. So I feel it is safe to say that the bacon on a stick was Luke's favorite fair food.

Kalahari

  Nana wanted to take the boys somewhere fun before school started.  So we picked Kalahari for our trip away.  We had fun going down water slides, family raft slide and fighting the waves in the wave pool.  Nana and Luke enjoyed going in the hot tub, while Kurt and Mom went down more slides.  The boys were surprise when Daddy showed up to have fun with us.  They could not wait to take him on all the slides.  However Daddy also took them on the zip coaster and the big big water slides. Like I said I'm a big chicken so thank goodness for Daddy.  I think their favorite ride was the cheetah racer (pictures below). I took picture while they raced down.  It was a great couple of days.

Daddy and the boys off the Rapid Rhino, that I did go on the next two times with them.

Luke is the one coming down first on this trip.

The boys coming off the Cheetah racer.

Nana playing basketball with the boys.

Kennywood

Our good friends asked us if we would like to join them at Kennywood theme park. It was a great opportunity to see how the boys would do riding roller coasters.   The day was wet and cool which is better then hot and crowed with people.  The boys really enjoyed the roller coasters. Unlike their mother who is a big chicken.  I did do the little coaster but that is my limit.  Thank goodness for everyone else taking Kurt on the bigger rides.  Even with the wet rain and the cool day it did not stop us from having a great time.  We didn't spend more then five minutes in line on a ride. It was a perfect day of laughs, screams and friends.  Thanks so much Albrecht family and Morris Family for letting us crash your family day.