The Baxa’s

We recently enjoyed another great set of concerts at the Commons. We saw Fastball and Survivor. Survivor was the best. They were so eighties, it was comical. The lead singer was doing the jumping jacks clap over his head, and he kept dancing and swinging the mic stand over his head too. I wish we had a nice picture of one of those moves! It was a great time.

One more concert left before summer comes to an end!

Living in the midwest, we don’t make it to the beach very often. Especially one where the waves make it seem like you are at the ocean. The day started out cloudy, with a little drizzle and ended up very sunny, hot, and without a cloud in the sky.

We started with a hike up the sand dune. It was huge.

Then the kids played in the sand and the water. Had some lunch and some snacks.

One more thing to check off the list of “Things we want to do this summer”.  It was a great day.

With the big wedding behind us, we’ve just been up to some regular old summer fun.

We went blueberry picking. 26 pounds of blueberries to be exact. So far we’ve had blueberry pancakes, and April baked fresh blueberry pie. It was hot out the day we picked.

We also spent an afternoon at the local carnival. It was darn hot out that day too. But, the kids had a blast.

Quinn has learned to ride a two wheeler!

We did a little bit of school shopping. These are two of the things that Josh picked. I think he was meant to be growing up in the 1980′s. Jeff asked me if we were shopping at a resale shop, because he thinks he once owned this shirt:

And this is just a random picture of Ella and Madeleine. They were trying to trick the boys into thinking they were someone else. It didn’t really work.

So, that’s what has been going on around here.

The kids are ready for school to start. Especially Quinn. He asked me today if school starts tomorrow or 2 days? I said 18 days. He told me he hates 18 days!

*all the above pictures were taken with our phones (except the last one), please forgive the lack of quality