On June 3rd Kenan, Micah and Lucy, and I went to the Como Zoo to meet Timmy's class. It also happened to be Timmy's birthday that day. I didn't find Timmy until after lunch right before we were going to leave. Once we found each other, I could tell it made Timmy's day. I followed him and his friend to a couple rides and then we started for home.
This is Kenan after the fire truck ride.
This is Timmy and his friend.
The next thing we did this summer was throw Kenan his first friend party ever! He turned 5 and had a dinosaur themed party.
This is the group of kids (only time I could ever get them lined up for a group photo) waiting to break the pinata.
Kenan finished t-ball. He got his trophy that he'd been waiting for all summer! See, he's had sibling go through sports and at this age all the kids get a trophy no matter what. He knew that. Some of the other kids on the team did not looked at Kenan like "wow! How did you know we were going to get a trophy?"
Here he is with his trophy
We sent Timmy and Hannah off to camp this summer as well and we sure missed them when they were gone. Timmy went one week and he came home, then 2 days later Hannah went up to camp for a week.
This is Timmy before he left for camp with his friend. They were so excited!
This is Hannah on her way to camp.
We celebrated the 4th of July the next day with the parade going right by our house. We attempted to camp out the night before in our new tent. Didn't work out so well with everyone lighting off fireworks. So we slept in our own beds.
Here is a picture of most of the group waiting for the parade to start
The next we went Strawberry Picking. We picked over 17lbs of Strawberries in one hour with 5 kids who all helped out. We came home and made strawberry pie with a recipe I found here. My pie turned out nothing like hers but it sure was tasty!
A shot of the group picking the strawberries.
Here is Kenan eating the strawberries.
Here is a picture of my lovely pie! I had the hardest time with the crust but it was so yummy!
The next exciting event of our summer was when Timmy's baseball team won 1st place in the regular season.
Go Yankees!
We went to the zoo a few times this summer...
In July Hubby came with us. This was taken in the grizzly bear area.
Como Zoo with cousins...
MN Zoo African Safari with my friend Jessica and her boys...
We took our first camping trip as a family to Lake Louise State Park
We also camped out in our backyard, which was lots of fun!
The same weekend we camped in our yard, we visited Historic Fort Snelling. The kids were so excited to taste rock candy and see army guys!
Just this past weekend we went to the State Fair as a family. We ate our way through the fair, went down the giant slide, went through the Haunted House, went to the Ye Old Mill, and went up the Space Tower.
The summer has been lots of fun and very busy, filled family, friends and many happy memories!
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