Bike through

While Jeff, Kyle, & Emily were at the Jazz game, Aaron and I went on a bike ride. Dairy Queen was closed so we went next door to McDonald's for an ice cream sundae. Aaron thought it was funny to use the drive through as a bike through. 

Aaron's spring break

Aaron was on spring break this week. It was a chill week and we had some fun together while the kids were in school and Jeff was in Utah. This day we took a bike ride to the park for a picnic lunch. And then on to ice cream. When I was growing up, that is one thing I remember - bike rides to get ice cream. And when you are hauling 40+ pounds of kid plus 20 pounds of trailer in hilly terrain, ice cream is definitely warranted! And Aaron certainly did not mind!

NC bucket list: Parlour

As our time in North Carolina draws to a close, we are working on our NC bucket list. Well we are just starting to create that list and knock things off as we can, but hey we're working on it! Ice cream at The Parlour in Durham was on that list. Check. 

Ice cream on a summer night

Just a warm summer evening eating some delicious Goodberry's custard. Mmmmmmm.

Aaron time

With school out for all 3 kids at the same time (quite a feat in this school system with how they have us set up), we have a bit of a summer! Jeff had a work trip to Chicago so Kyle and Emily went along to spend some time with Grandma in Wisconsin. That left Aaron and myself back in North Carolina to have some fun together. 

One of the days we went over to Marbles. We hadn't been there in quite a long time so it was fun to return. 

Aaron's favorite room is probably still the piggy room. We waited a long time to get this slow motion video of the balls falling on Aaron. 

Another day, we headed east for the beach. We hadn't been to the beach (on the Atlantic) since our San Diego friends had visited us last August. We had a great time hanging out, playing in the sand, making a sand castle and sand angels and jumping waves. And of course topping the day off with some ice cream. Within minutes of pulling out of our parking spot there, Aaron was asleep for the entire 2 hour ride home. 

Another day we had silly hair day. Aaron really wanted purple hair. So he had some purple hair along with blue and pink. He was thrilled. Having dark hair, it didn't so much show up on my hair. 

We hit the bowling alley with our silly hair. 

Kyle's monkeys (not the real Miko) were tucked into his bed while he was away. 

We had a silly string battle day which was silly fun. 

For Father's Day, we made red macaroni in honor of my dad. Jeff was able to celebrate the day with Kyle and Emily and his dad while in Chicago. 

And we had ice cream night. 

We had a lot of fun together and certainly missed Kyle, Emily & Jeff. 

Day in the life

Just another day in the life...

Boys playing with fireworks

Boys doing garage science experiments

Large tic-tac-toe outside of the ice cream parlor that we were able to ride our bikes to! This was especially exciting to me because some of my earliest, albeit fuzzy memories are of taking bike rides with my family to get ice cream while we still lived in Ohio. And we found a way to do it here, in Raleigh, on bikes! It's not perfect in that we have to cut through a forest and cross some busy roads, and ride some hills, but we did it!!

And then we rode over to the golf store with an indoor driving range and hit a few balls. Because we could.