Busy, Busy, Busy!

Today we took a fun day!

Life is so busy, and summer break is speeding to an end,

so before school started we took a day and went to the
Maquoketa Caves!
Drena and Reid went too!

And even though we are exhausted, and life's still just as busy

as it was before we took our fun day, I think we needed a break,

and this was a perfect one!

It was only 2 hours away too so that was nice.

(groan) there were a lot of stairs on the paths leading to the

caves, and they were great walking down, but really not so

great having to walk up...

Drena and Mom only came to one cave, and didn't venture in too far because they were getting claustrophobic.

Crystal only brought her little camera, but got some really

good pictures! She of course found spots for us to pose :)
The scenery was so beautiful!

It was really cool (temp) in the caves so the humidity

put kind of a mist in the air.

Oh, we had such a good time!

We crawled around in all sorts of places, got really dirty, bruised

tired, and had a great time!

Lunch break...

Yes, quite dirty...

It was a really fun day!

Rach and I got a little bored on the ride home...

Twins!

Every time I'd look at this picture after we took it I'd just burst

out laughing! Even now I'm laughing...

We have fun :)

Thanks God for little timeouts from the day to day,

they're refreshing! (in an exhausting sort of way)

fun.

Josh and his family were over at our house today.

We were in T's pool mostly, but after supper we went

outside and played beanbags. Since we were all together, and

it rarely happens that we're all in the same place at the same time,

we took advantage of it and got a few pictures!

After lots of goof-off pictures mom told us to

"come on, be serious!" :)
But that didn't last long...