Last week, we had our first family summer vacation. Kevin took the week off work, taking advantage of the holiday 3 day weekend to kick off our week of fun.
We spent our 4th of July hanging around West Des Moines but ventured out to a local park/trail to take our jogging stroller for a spin. On Saturday, we kicked it into high gear preparing for our stay at my family's lake house in Fremont, Nebraska. We had meals planned and were determined to do as much prep work on Saturday so that while on vacation we could literally be on vacation, while still keeping ourselves and little Tyler alive and kicking with sustenance throughout the day.
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| Does anyone else notice that Tyler is looking at the camera! Photography skills, honed. |
Sunday we packed up our car and headed out to Fremont- a 2.5 hour drive with a stop on the way through "town" at the only place to stop in town...Walmart! We had planned to stop for some liquid refreshments, what we hadn't planned was that 10 minutes out of West Des Moines I was already making a Walmart list for the things we realized we forgot. And this was only after leaving the house once, getting about .5 miles from home and realizing we forgot the propane camping grill we intended to bring (to continue the theme of vacation, not work like the lake's charcoal grill would require). Public service announcement number 1- due to city ordinanace, we were not allowed to purchase our liquid refreshments until precisely 12:00pm- therefore we wasted a good 15 minutes of time wandering around the Fremont Walmart- PSA, don't make this mistake with a hungry-needing-a-new-diaper-11 month old who is beginning to learn the fine art of protest.
We were greeted at the lake house by the last remaining survivors of the Gerken Family 4th of July celebration. As is customary, we unpacked our belongings, put on our swimsuits and got out to the beach without skipping a beat. And so it began.
We proceeded to have a great lake vacation. Time stood still- lack of cell phone service and wi-fi was glorious- pretty much everything went according to plan. Tyler showed his "enthusiasm" for being on vacation by waking up between 5 and 530am every morning. This was not part of the plan. This should never be the part of any vacation plan. Unfortunately, we tried to reason with him on multiple occasions but he didn't budge. We took naps. Every day? Yes.
The trip- in photos- because there's too much to say.
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| First time on the sand |
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| First time in the lake! All was well before he started dipping his face in to drink... |
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| Tyler was actually very happy that our friends Rachael & Adam joined our party for a day along with Aiden and Ellie. |
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| Loving watermelon |
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| His shirt says it all! |
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| A better contraption for lake swimming. No drinking possible... |
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| Loving the water |
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| Looking cool |
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| Tyler and I, all smiles on our last night |
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| Kevin and Tyler |
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Family selfie, take 500. Sorry T.
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| And on our last day, while packing the car, Tyler was again practicing his protesting abilities. He obviously didn't want to leave. We loved every minute. |
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