Iowa State Fair

On August 11th we headed up to the Iowa State Fair with Dad, Mom, Aaron, and Nichole. Our first stop was in Iowa City to see Brock's new condo, then Hu Hot and then the fair :) We had fun walking around and Ollie had fun pretending to drive the golf cart...

Our main reason for going up was to see Sanctus Real and Casting Crowns in concert. My wonderful friend who camps up at the fair the whole time, offered to watch Ollie during the concert. We had great weather, a fun time, and it was a great concert!

Sanctus Real...
Casting Crowns...
After the concert we headed to our hotel and then drove home Friday morning. We had a blast!

Mom's Birthday

On the weekend of August 6-7 we celebrated Mom Wiese's 60th birthday. We got there on Saturday afternoon and had a fun evening of delicious food, fun family time, and celebration..

Anna made the beautiful red velvet cake from scratch, good job Anna!

Ollie snuggling with Aunt Melissa...
On Sunday morning we had "church", opened gifts, and went to Happy Joe's to celebrate again!


Sunday afternoon we had fun playing crochet, bummed I didn't get a picture!

We are so thankful for you, Mom! Thanks for all you do and your love and prayers. We love you!

Date Night

One of our goals this summer was to go to a drive-in movie. So thats what we did a couple weekends ago! We dropped Ollie off at my parents, stopped and got Subway, and headed to the movies. While we waited we played some cribbage...

I love going on dates with my man... and enjoyed it heaps :) Love you Babe!

Gitche Gumee

Last week we went to Gitche Gumee Bible Camp in Eagle River, MI. Andrew's family goes every year and this year we invited Aaron and Nichole to come up and join us. We got a big cabin because that was all that was left so we needed someone to help us fill the space... we had a fun time besides the fact that Oliver was a grouch to everyone! He just wanted to be left alone to explore, or he wanted me. Here are some highlights:

• Getting to be with all of Andrew's family together... besides AJ :(
• The ping pong tournament that Dad got 1st place in and Dan 2nd.
• The beautiful sunsets.
• Oliver rolling around in the sand on the beach.
• Ultimate frisbee and volleyball.
• Oliver having a rock in his mouth almost the whole time :)
• Delicious food.
• Finding rocks at Horseshoe Harbor.
• Shopping in Calumet.
• Late nights playing games.
• A break from the heat with 70 degree weather.
• Oliver doing such a good job driving 11 hours there and back!

Here are the 101 pictures...

We enjoyed every minute of our time with family! We love you guys :)

Vacation House

Last weekend we stayed at my Dad and Mom's so we could mow for them while they were gone on vacation, and it was a little vacation for us :) Oliver had so much fun exploring outside! That is all he wanted to do was go outside. Helping Daddy mow...

His cousins came over to water the flowers...

We set up his pool on the back porch...

And I'm not sure if you can see it in this picture or not, but he thought he would try walking down the deck stairs, instead of turning around and crawling down. He got a huge bump under his eye :( I keep telling myself I need to get use to him getting hurt and getting dirty because he is a boy and it will happen a lot!
We had a fun little weekend getaway :)

4th of July

We got to spend the evening with this wonderful couple. We had a delicious dinner, played bags, and attempted to make ice cream. We didn't stay for fireworks because Ollie needed to go to bed :)

Thanks for inviting us to celebrate with you!