Over Memorial Day weekend, we took the boys to Iowa to tent camp and we have determined that Jonah is definitely our outdoor kid and Aiden enjoys his air conditioning too much.
We left for Iowa Thursday afternoon earlier than we planned due to the reports that Scott County Park was filling up fast (which is was not). We had made plans prior to stay in a hotel Thursday night since we planned to arrive after the park was closed. So Thursday afternoon/evening we set up our campsite and still stayed in the hotel. Friday, we did the normal grocery shopping for the weekend and spent the afternoon at the campsite. This is when we determined that Aiden did not like camping, he was too warm too warm to nap. During the evening, we spent some time with T, M and G. It is shocking that she is already one, time has flown by. For the first night camping, the boys actually did really well for being off their schedules.
Saturday was a great day. We spent the entire day in the park, we took the boys swimming in the morning/most of the afternoon. Aiden LOVED the pool. He is such a water baby. Jonah on the other hand, was not so fond of the pool. He held a death grip on me, but I was able to dunk his a couple of times. :) He did like the sprinklers and sprayers that they had. To which Josh and he played in for a good amount of time. After the pool, we all went back to camp and crashed. That evening we invited all of the clan out to our campsite to have dinner by the campfire. We had a great turnout, we had 30 people out! It was a lot of fun and nice to see most of the family.
Sunday was the beginning of the busy days. We spent the day with the shus and for Aiden to meet his great great aunt Tillie (she's 93 and still lives on the farm by herself). It has been about 6 months since we last seen her. As well, we got to see some cousins that we hardly ever see.
Monday was just crazy. We started with visiting Aunt M and Uncle R, since we were not able to see them on Sat. night. But we did not get to spend enough time with them. :( After we had a shu cookout to attend and we got to spend some time with more cousins we don't get to see enough. Thanks T and B for inviting us over. Finally on Monday, we went to G 1st birthday party. Which was fun until Jonah cut his finger and ripped off half his finger nail, so we had to take him to the emergency room. Thankfully he did have anything broken and did not need stitches, just a little antibiotic cream and bandages.
Tuesday, we packed up and began our way home, with cheers from Aiden. But of course, we had to make a couple of stops before we left town. We had forgotten G gift, so we took it to her. Then we head over to the John Deere Pavilion for the two older boys to play on the tractors.
Oh what a wonderful weekend...I wish there was more long weekends like this.
