Midwest Trip - Day 2

After getting rained out on our scheduled kayak cave tour in Door County, Wisconsin we drove from Green Bay to Kohler which is the town next to Sheboygan where Garrett and Julia are living. We went on an amazing 3-hour tour of all of its factories and then had a delicious lunch at Greecy E Spoon in downtown Sheboygan.

After lunch we headed to Chicago which was one of the reasons we made the trip. Garrett and Julia had never been there and we wanted to show them the sights. I love Chicago! We went to the Willes Tower Skydeck and enjoyed the scenery. Dinner at Gino's East, Garrett Popcorn, concert in Millenium Park and the "bean."

Midwest Trip - Day 1

Garrett and Julia have been doing summer internships in Wisconsin this summer and we wanted to visit them about halfway through and spend some time with them. John and I flew into Green Bay, Wisconsin on Thursday, July 19 and visited an amazing Automobile Gallery, Green Bay Botanical Gardens, Scray's Cheese Factory and a tour of Lambeau Field. 

Garrett and Julia drove an hour north of their home in Sheboygan to go to dinner with us at The Cannery and enjoy some Wisconsin frozen custard at Zesty's and spend the night with us at our hotel. It was so good to see them again even if its only been 6 weeks...

Empty Nesting Activities

We've been enjoying being empty nesters a lot more than we thought we would! Lots of temple dates, cycling (with the old RAV designated as the cycling car so it's always loaded and ready to go), and weekly tennis lessons and ball machine workouts with our favorite coach, Jason Weir-Smith. We've also picked up pickleball and spent time two-on-two time with our married kids and their spouses. Who knew we'd have so much time to do the things we love together!

The Instagram Dog

Since Hailey made Cooper his own instagram account, she's always asking for pictures to post. Cooper is very photogenic but his favorite thing is to sleep in precarious positions. Thought we should have this documented on the blog...

Sweet Everlee Ann Tebbs

 John's nephew Steven and his wife Karen had a beautiful little baby girl 3 weeks early born with Trisomy 18. She was only able to stay on this earth for a couple of weeks but we were able to say hello and goodbye at Primary Children's Hospital and attend her beautiful funeral. Such a special spirit...

4th of July Celebrations

I've gotten a little lazy about photos and I missed taking some good pictures of all our celebrating. We had a ward patriotic breakfast on June 30, a fun family BBQ with Hailey, Riley, Collin, Lacey & dad on July 2 along with the Eaglewood Car Show that evening. On July 3rd we watched the fireworks with the Rogers family at Eaglewood and 4th of July morning we had our 2nd annual hike to Elephant Rock with Hailey and Riley. I'm glad I got a picture of Riley's patriotic costume. He got over 30 mentions of it as we did the 7 mile round-trip trek.

Birthday Reunion

I'm glad we made the effort to get our old Primary Presidency back together for a June lunch to celebrate Melissa's birthday since she moved from the ward. Funny how we used to see/talk to each other weekly but now need events to bring us together when we live just down the street from one another. These ladies are some I will love and be grateful to forever!