Boat Trip!

So last weekend, my friends had a great idea.....let's take a boat trip!

Yup, my friends Jill and Laurie have boats so we grabbed our hubs and our friend John, packed some coolers and off we went!  

We split up and we rode on Laurie's boat called "The Wet Willy."

Our destination was Peoria.  We stopped at a couple of bars along the Illinois River where you can dock your boat and have some drinks.  It was so fun.  We made it to Peoria where we docked our boat too!

Then we got dressed and headed for a fun night of dinner and drinks.

We had to take a cab to the downtown area of Peoria.  Since there were 8 of us, we rode in a mini van.  Our cab driver looked like Kid Rock!

It was nice and relaxing....no kids!

But this was the official last day of summer for us.  We started meetings at work the next day.

Chuck held on because he was a little fearful when we hit waves.  He even wore his life jacket.

This is one of the places we stopped at. It's called Bananas.  It was neat.  They gave us free burgers that we grilled ourselves.  The only questionable thing there was all the guys walking around in speedos. 

Here are some pics from our night out!

We saw a band called Seven West.  They were awesome!  They played a little bit of everything!

Such a fun time!  Thanks for inviting us!  We are going to do this again next year!

Summer Fun!

Besides all the swimming we did this summer, we also did lots of other random fun stuff this summer.....

we hit up cruise night one night downtown.

Presley had a sleepover with Scotty and Levi.

We went and saw the movie "Inside Out" in 3D!

We did free bowling on those cold, rainy days.

The kids picked out their new backpacks for school!

We had playdates with our friends!

Evie and Presley had their first eye appointment where they had their eyes dilated and had to wear special glasses.

Presley went to a Superhero Sleepover at the library.  Well, only Hawkeye slept there but we saw lots of pics of what he did!

We went to a movie in the park and watched "Elf."

We played and babysat Colton!

We went to the library to learn how to make potions and even made magic wands too!

We laid out in the sun and got tan!

We found Evie had crawled into bed with Grace!  This was the first time it has happened and it was too cute!

We used our free tickets and went to Raging Waves.

Bub even went down the slides!

The girls had a sleepover in Graces' bed with Daddy!

WE did so much this summer and I'm sad it's come to an end. We are looking forward to next summer!