Summer Vacation

We just got back from an amazing two week vacation up north!  

We first went to Bradford, Pennsylvania, to visit my Dad's family.  We stayed with my Aunt Melissa and Uncle Troy, and my six year old darling cousin Declan.  Every day we went to my Grandparent's house and spent time with them, my Dad, Heather, and some of my siblings - Conner, Reagan, Jillian, and Jason.  We had so much fun! We went swimming, played croquet, did some trap shooting, went off-roading, and just ran around in the fresh and beautiful outdoors.  We all had such a great time!  Jonas and Keegan even went to Canada and saw the Niagara Falls (Delilah and I stayed back because she was sick and we had a flat tire on our car).  

After leaving Pennsylvania, we headed over to Michigan to visit my little sister and brother, Savannah and Logan, my "quarter-sister" (their little sister) Bailey, and my step-mom Jennifer.  It was SOO great to see them all again, I can't wait for next time!  We got to see an air show while there, and just spend some quality time together. 

Here are the top 130 of the 2,000 pictures from the trip!

 My 16-year-old brother Conner

 The pool and pool house/cabaña

 View of the house from the pool/pool house

 View from the back patio of the house

 My 6-year-old brother Jason and our 6-year-old cousin Declan

 Declan showing us his dance moves

 Some of the kids running around in the groomed area of the backyard (they have about 200 acres!)

 Uncle Troy, Aunt Melissa (my dad's sister), and my Dad

 This little bench around the tree is so cute!

 My dad (or, as the kids call him, Poppy) and Delilah

 The back of the house

 View from the trap house

 Walking past the groomed area to the pond

 Heather, Melissa, and my Grandma.  Clearly, this was a conversation about her mom that Melissa did NOT want to hear! lol

 Keegan and his Uncle Conner

 Delilah kissing her Aunt Jillian, my 8-year-old sister

 My whole world!

 My little redneck

 Jillian

 Jason kissing our little sister-to-be!

 Meggie, the youngest of my grandparent's five dogs

 I just love my dad's face here!!

 Hahaha

 Taking turns getting thrown into the pool

 Off-roading

 The old dog kennel

 Pennsylvania horse flies - not only are these suckers humongous, but they also bite!

 My beautiful little sister Jillian

 Goofball!

 I absolutely LOVE this picture of Delilah!

 Us being silly

 My 11-year-old sister Reagan

 So cute!! Keegan with a couple of his aunts

 The kids got to go "off-roading" too! (Okay, not really, but they got to ride in the super cool Polaris Ranger!)

 Heather (my step-mom) and Jillian

 Jonas took this picture, and I sooo love it!

 He loved sitting at the "big kid table"

 This butterfly kept flying back to me, and landing right on me

 So the kids all wanted a turn holding the super-friendly butterfly!

 LOVE LOVE LOVE!!

 Off to Niagara Falls!

 Playing croquet!

 Gotta love Grandma's kitchen!

 Croquet

 He was trying to kiss her, and she wasn't having it

 This is the trap in the trap house (used for shooting).  Notice the bat in the upper left hand corner?  We didn't either (I didn't even notice I got a picture of it until I loaded them onto my computer), and poor Conner went in there to reload the clay pigeons and the bats swarmed him and totally freaked us all out! 

 Pappy, short for Paprika - the oldest and biggest of my Grandparent's dogs

 Jonas did REALLY well, especially given that it was his first time ever shooting a gun!

 My Grandpa Moose - I love this picture of him.  He is almost completely blind now, and this was his first time having to sit out of a shooting competition because of it. It breaks my heart   :(

 My dad had his 30-year high school reunion while we were up there, and here are a couple of his best friends from high school, Andy and Tom

 This was our best attempt to get a picture of the kids with their great-grandparents!

 Now we are in Michigan, and Bailey and Keegan were playing doctor!

 We brought all the kids presents, and here I am giving my 11-year-old brother Logan his!

 I think Savannah and I had more fun putting this together than the kids had playing with it! Ha!

 My beautiful 14-year-old sister Savannah

 My 6-year-old "quarter sister" Bailey and Keegan played SO well together!

 Beautiful Bailey

 Keegan playing the drums with his Aunt Savannah

 My incredible step-mom Jennifer!

 Delilah trying to push her Uncle Logan around

 The ice cream truck came!

 Delilah and her Aunt Savannah

 This little girl is fast friends with any and every dog she meets!

We had such a great time on our vacation! We are sad that it is over, but happy to be back home.  Our kids are so incredibly blessed to have all of the wonderful grandparents, aunts and uncles that they do! I have my mom and two amazing step-moms, and I love them all so very much.  Jonas's mom is SO great in every which way, and the kids always have so much fun with her.  My dad and Jonas's dad are both so wonderful and loving and generous.  My kids are blessed to have so many great-grandparents as well - Jonas's paternal grandparents and both sets of my grandparents.  Speaking of grandparents, my other set (my Mom's parents) are coming to visit us this weekend! We are so excited to see them.  I will definitely post pictures afterwards! Thanks for looking, hope everybody has a wonderful week/weekend!