What we did in June

In the middle of June, we packed up most everything in our house besides the furniture, appliances and dishes, and drove 600 miles to spend the whole summer (yes, 2 full months) in PA. And this is the SIXTH summer that we have done this exact same thing! To read more about my husband's unique summer job, click here. Yes, we go to PA mainly for Adam's summer job while he has "off" from his teaching/coaching job with the school system, but we wouldn't have even considered PA for a summer employment had we not had so many family and friends in PA.

It has been a real treat for my parents to be able to see my kids "grow up" over the past six summers! Levi was just 8 weeks old the first summer that we descended upon their house to stay for 2 months! We invaded their house with more baby gear, bottles, and diapers than they had ever seen, along with our dog and all that goes along with a pet! Now, in this sixth summer, Levi is 5 and Wyatt is 6, so the baby gear, diapers, and bottles have been replaced with cars, trucks, books, and legos. And after that first summer of bringing the dog, we decided that a dog sitter was a better route than my non-pet-people parents!

Below are pictures from some of the fun things that we did in June while in PA. We split our time between staying at my parents' house and staying with Adam at Trails End Camp.

 

Enjoying some ice cream with Papa on a hot summer night!

If Levi would have had his way, we would have visited this weight room at camp every day! I finally had to resort to telling him that he could only with Adam. (and Adam wasn't available very much to take him anywhere other than the basketball courts or the programming office, so that worked out just fine because we don't really want him lifting too much while he is still growing and so young)

This was the most visited spot for our family in the summer! The boys loved to shoot hoops almost as much as they loved to see their Daddy at work.

Levi wanted to be the ref in this game and was about to throw up the ball for a jump ball!

We saw this snapping turtle a few times while up at camp. His tail looked like a dinosaur tail!

Back at Grandma's house they had fun in the sprinkler on a hot day!