back from vacation

Oh my, I think I just took an unintentional blog break last week! I had a good reason for it at least, since Ben & I took a little vacation to go visit our families. Our parents live in the same town, so it works out quite nicely when we want to go visit. Ben’s siblings all decided to go for a visit at the same time, so we got to see everyone on his side and my sister is also at my parents for the summer (for one last time before she starts her new job in the fall as an nurse).

It was quite a busy week…. We watched fireworks on the 4th of July…

Visited “The Farm” which is a historical museum to farming in the United States. There are even live animals to pet and play with at the farm!

This kitten wasn’t quite sure what to think of the goat that walked up when she was sitting on my lap!
Ate breakfast at a Swedish Restaurant where they happen to have goats on the roof…

Watched sailboats and enjoyed being near water… (I miss having water nearby!)

Met my brother-in-law and his wife’s new dachshunds, Oscar and Mayer…

I actually took 700 pictures during our week of vacation, if you don’t count the ones that I decided to just delete! Isn’t digital photography amazing:) More photos of our vacation on my flickr (I didn’t post all 700, just 49:), including some portraits of my sister. (Thanks Sari for letting me practice by taking your picture a bunch!)

Now I am going to go try to catch up on a few blogs and start thinking about stuff I need to get done this week!