Vacation 2013

This year for vacation, we spent a lot of time at home, settling in, but we did sneak away for a weekend in Lakeville and a weekend in Bismarck. Both trips were a little bit whirlwind-ish, but so much fun! We started our trip with a quick stop at the Mall of America to meet the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and got to meet Spongebob, too. Spongebob was a good warm up for the turtles, I think it helped Jaxon be a little braver. Dashiel wasn't a fan of the turtles after one got a little too close for comfort. At Grandpa Jim and Grandma Linda's, Jaxon couldn't wait to get some swimming in and Dash did a little bit of toe dipping, as well. Jaxon is getting to the point where he likes to push his limits with things(you tell him to stay in the shallow end of the pool, but he likes to see if he can maybe sneak into the deeper end a little bit). We met some friends at the Children's Museum (or the Playing Museum, as Jaxon calls it) and spent an afternoon visiting and playing. We went to the zoo, zoomed across town to see the Imagination Mover's in concert, and then went back to the zoo. Since I got a new camera for Christmas, I thought it would be fun to give Jax my old one and let him take pictures while we were vacationing. I will put those in a separate post: some of them are pretty good and really, to see how seriously he took the task and how proud he is of them makes me smile. I don't have any pictures of our trip to Bismarck (luckily, Jaxon has a few on his camera!), but we had a great time there. We were there for our 10 year anniversary (sneaky Josh made plans to take me out to dinner and then made me cry with a surprise trip), the guys did some golfing, we did lots of visiting, and watched Jaxon run through the sprinkler. We got a slip and slide to take with, thinking Jaxon may enjoy it. He was a little timid about it, and so uncle Mike showed him how it's done. I so so so so wish we had a video of it. It was probably the best laugh we had all weekend. It is now almost a month later, and Jaxon still brings it up every once in awhile.