I finally had a few minutes to upload some pictures of our vacation. After we spent a few days at my parents house (and I got to meet Pam) Rich, Hailey, my parents and I packed up the car to head to visit Mike, Matt and Ellie.

We packed just a few things. Actually now that I look at that- most of that stuff was for me, Rich and Hailey. Where is all of my parents stuff?

The car ride was 8 hours, so we made several stops to keep Hailey happy. And she did excellent. There may have been a couple instances of whining but she did so good. This is during one of our stops. Hailey and my dad are watching some trucks go by.

While we were driving Rich saw this van with an AC unit in the back. So we had to slow way down so that I could take pictures of it. Rich thought it was pretty funny.

During our visit we took a nice walk so that Hailey could check out some cows. She had never seen cows in real life so she was pretty excited to check them out.

Later we went on a picnic right next to a duck pond. Hailey loved feeding the ducks with her Aunt Ellie.

We saw this while we were at the duck pond. I have no idea what it is. Does anyone know?

Ellie had saved a big box for Hailey and together they made a house. Check out my Our Crafts ~N~ Things blog to see pictures of them making the house.

Rich and Matt after a game of golf.

We had a great time at a nearby park- Hailey loved all of the special attention she got from her Aunt Ellie!

The fireflies were out all over the place as we were getting ready to leave the park. If you look near the top of left of the picture you can see the firefly that Hailey and “Pa” are looking at.

Even though Mike’s birthday isn’t until August we decided to celebrate it while we were all together. Hailey loved helping Uncle Mike celebrate.

Meet my adorable little nephews- Tuxedo and Penguin. Hailey loved the kitties… as long as they stayed away from her box house.

Hailey helping Uncle Matt play a song on his guitar.

Hailey saying goodbye to Penguin and Tuxedo. She was leaning in to give them hugs but they both got out of the way pretty quickly.

We had a very nice time being with all of my family. Thanks again to Matt and Ellie and to Mike for hosting!

This is my sticky post for Wednesday, July 23rd. Newer entries may be added underneath this one.

I have so much to get done today that I don’t have time to post about our trip yet. So, I figured I’d leave you with this picture for now. Any caption ideas? The funniest caption (to be picked by me) wins a prize. The prize will be nothing something exciting, determined by me.

We just got home from our vacation a little while ago.  I have all sorts of things I need to get done- unpack, do a bazillion loads of laundry, go grocery shopping (we’ve been away from home for a week and a half, so we have nothing in our refrigerator) pick up our mail from the neighbors and sort through all of the bills- you know all of that fun stuff you get to do after a vacation.  But, I thought I would do a quick post to let you know I’m back and will be back to my usual posting and commenting soon.  We had a wonderful time on our trip and of course I have pictures and stories to tell.  So, I’m off to get all of my work done so I can relax and do some blogging a little later on.

…to let you know that we are visiting with family and enjoying our vacation!  I won’t be doing much (if any) blogging while we are here so I thought I should do a quick post to let you know I haven’t fallen off of the face of the earth.

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Talk to you all later!