Chloupek Visit

Fr. Frantisek and his parents stopped by for a visit on their way out of town! It was such a treat to have them in our home and share a little glimpse of our life with them. 

Lewis showed them his butterfly. We had lunch together and shared lots of stories. 

Elias showed Father all of his lawn equipment. He wrote Father a story as a gift for his first Mass and it was all about Father taking care of his lawn at his parish. 

Mr. Chloupek showed Elias how to get rid of the “yellow ones”. It was so lovely to have them stop by!

Fighting Boredom

Debbie has been asking us to visit her new office for a while now, so we finally made it. I’m really glad my boys get to be around her. 

She has one heck of a set up for play therapy, that’s for sure. Her storage room is a fun organizing project calling my name…

Goodbye Butterflies

I was doing some reading online about how to know if a chrysalis is still alive because one of Lewis’ was black for a few days. The first two were black for an hour before they hatched so I was a little worried we had lost one. 

As I was reading I also learned that butterflies need to be released within a week of hatching or else they will start mating and they will have way more caterpillar eggs than one can handle. That was very motivating to release them this morning, which was more sad than we anticipated.  

Luckily, our neighbor has a pollination garden all along our driveway so that made it happier. 

But look at his face…

Spirits are back up this afternoon because we noticed that the chrysalis we thought was dead HATCHED! Two more to go. 

Spray Park

We went back to G&G’s cabin for lunch, put levi down for a nap, and then headed to the spray park!

Yep. He did some laps in the puddle. 

We were still playing when Levi woke up so I went and got him from Grandma Susan and let him play in the water too. He was not impressed. It was completely overwhelming to him. 






Thanks for a great day G&G!

Park 5

The coolest rope park we’ve ever seen!

Park 4

Zip lines!!!

Parks 1, 2, & 3

My parent’s got a cabin for Father’s Day weekend(ish) so we spent today at the park with them. It was packed with fun!

There are five, yes FIVE super fun parks all in a row!

One park for the littles. 




One park with unique climbing experiences. 

And cool sculptures. 





Levi couldn’t stop hugging the baby kittens. 

All the parks had wood chips except one. This park had waterways down these sculptures and you could use the sand to make dams, sculptures, flowing concrete type sand, etc. It was endless fun!