Our Family Getaway

In the true nature of summer, we've had a very busy last few weeks.  We had the wonderful opportunity to go on a family vacation, to visit family, and to be a part of a beautiful wedding!  It was a great time. I'll blog about visiting family and the wedding sometime in the next couple of weeks.  Today I want to share a tidbit on our family getaway.

We began our adventures by renting a cabin at Land Between The Lakes.  Land between the lakes is a recreational area located in Kentucky and Tennessee between Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake. It is less than an hour from our house.  For being so close to home it has a lot of fun things to offer.  In addition to camping, swimming,hiking, boating, and fishing; they also have a planeterium, a buffalo and bison prairie, an 1850's style farm, and a small zoo of sorts.  We had never been there before and we really enjoyed looking around.  We didn't get to do everything we wanted to while we were there, but we did just enough and enjoyed relaxing in the cabin in the evenings.  It was very restful. 

Playing Checkers With Daddy

Bison and Elk Prarie! We were there at a GREAT time!

The porch we spent many happy morning and evening on. 

Lego Fun

So, I am still pretty behind on this blog.  What I am sharing today happened a couple of months ago but I never got around to blogging about it.  However, time lines aren't a big deal anyways.  This blog is for fun after all. 

If you have a little boy, chances are they have been or will be at some point slightly obsessed with Lego's.  Truthfully,  I didn't really think Jay would but then out came the Lego movie and suddenly Lego was everywhere.  Really, I suppose it shouldn't have surprised me.  The boy LOVES to build and put thing together.  He spends the better part of his days dreaming about turning our car into a flying car. Some of his happiest moments are when he's creating something.  So, armed with the knowledge that Lego's exist and can be made into all sorts of things, the obsession is beginning. 

We started giving Jay an allowance back in February.  He gets three dollars a week and it gets split up between 4 jars.  He puts 10% in his tithe/give jar.  He put 75 cents in a save (for the end of the month) jar and 75 cents in a save for the end of the year jar.  He then gets to put the remainder $1.20 in a spend jar that he can use when he wants.  At the end of April, Jay got his save for the end of the month money. Off we went to the store.  He chose to spend his money on a Lego plane kit.  

We bought it and brought it home.  I put Gunnar to bed and allowed Jay to stay up a little late to build his plane. I was impressed by how easily he followed the directions.  He did need my help for a few parts but was able to get it together pretty quickly on his own.  

We had a wonderful time putting it together.  We also had a few laughs when Jay saw that I had the camera out and began being goofy as a result.  :)  

I am so blessed to get to be this little boy's mommy!