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I will have pictures from our summer trip to Iowa very soon.

Trip with Mom

I took my Mom on a road trip to Solvang. We had a great time. On the first day we looked around the main street, found a cute restaurant for lunch and took a horse drawn trolly ride. Then we drove to our hotel. It was beautiful. The rooms are all different, they even have some rooms that walk right out on to the garden.

We had a private garden behind our room.

For breakfast the next morning we had the towns famous Aebleskivers, plus some ham and eggs.
After breakfast we headed out of town to Mission Santa Inez. We got in just in time to see the sanctuary. They closed it for a private function after we walked through. We finished our self guided tour in the back garden.



After Mom and I rested on a bench for a it we headed back to town and took in the town museum. For lunch we decided on American and had sandwiches and potato salad. The rest of the afternoon was spent shopping and people watching.

In the evening Mom and I went to The 39 Steps at the Solvang Festival Theater. It's an open air theater and we saw people walking in with heavy coats and blankets, none of which we had, we thought we were dooooomed!!!! LOL They had blanket rentals. Awesome ;) So we rented a blanket. Neither Mom or I had seen the original play, this one was a comedy, so we are going to try and rent it before she leaves.

Sailing and Father's Day

Dwight is our sailing ASM. We are very grateful to him for letting us use his boats and teaching us how to sail!



The past weekend Derek and I went on a Boy Scout sailing trip. The weather was beautiful. This year we had very strong winds on Sunday as well so we had more then a day of sailing. The only problems we ran into was no water. There was quite a quest to find some as more then half of the park were undeveloped sites.

On Saturday night there was a gorgeous sunset and a harvest moon.

Ironically I did not get any photos of Derek specifically. I think he took one of me though.



When we to home Sunday we celebrated Fathers Day with John :) Derek grilled us all steaks and we watched a movie.

Second day of Swimming

I wonder how many days in a row we can get in the pool? My guess is four.

8th Grade Graduation

Derek is in high school now! The ceromony was nice and short, the weather was beautiful and our seats were right in front of Derek. What more could we ask for. We were warned about parking but even that turned out fine.





Graduation Gift - An iPad2!!



Derek getting his Diploma - We got overly excited so the video is kinda shaky ;)

Last Day of School Lunch

The last couple of weeks have been crazy. Both boys have been hanging out more with their groups of friends, which I love, but all the driving is tiring. It's still all good though. In one months time Max was invited to 3 birthday parties. Madness I say. I felt so lame about getting everyone gift MasterCard's but 3 birthdays to shop for is uber crazy. We all survived though and had a great last day of school lunch.