Our kiddos: Summertime

Well guess I got a bit behind on my blog so guess I will try to sum up the summer here.

Was a busy, fun summer. We had lots of thing we did.

The summer started with Aaliyahs Eye surgery in June. It only slowed her down a little bit. She did have a bit of pain and swelling from it but never the less she was out and playing on the play set as you can see on the picture below. Her face is a bit swollen in the picture but she was still our little fire ball :) After about a week she was back to her normal self.

We had a fun family day at the zoo. I managed to tackle going with just myself and the three kids. This day we went the weather was great and the kids enjoyed the animals.

Fourth of July was a festive event. NeVaeh really enjoyed all the fireworks. She was cheering on the fireworks. We saw the display at Garretson.

We also went to Laura's to set off fireworks. The kids got to play with cousins and set off snakes and snaps. They enjoy playing with cousins.

Gramma at Lauras

Couple candid pictures of Aaliyah and Andres

NeVaeh worked hard all summer with communication. We added new features on her Talk Tablet on the Ipad. She now has some jokes and starting to add some games.

The weekend before the Fair in Sioux Falls there was Family Fun Days at the fair grounds. The kids had a blast...they also went to the Sioux Empire fair the following week but I didn't get any pictures of that.

After the family fun days we ate at Mckennan park and played there too.

This has been a very fun summer. Its been very busy!

We ended the summer up a week before school started with a vacation in the Black Hills. It turned out to be a very enjoyable and welcomed getaway!!

These are pictures taken at Reptile Garden.

Aaliyah (the brave one) pet a snake.

We watched the Alligator wrestler.

She of course had to pet the alligator too.

We drove through Bear country too.

Saw Mount Rushmoore...Or the Men on the Mountain as the kids call it...LOL

We visited Crazy horse too.

Dinosaur park had many steps up to it about 120 or 130...NeVaeh was NOT going to go to up those steps so we stayed down and checked out the gift shop while Dan and the other two checked out the dinosaurs.