Our Mini Summer Vacation

This past week, we headed down towards Cincinnati for a few days of fun!  We stayed at the Great Wolf Lodge and spent 2 afternoons at the water park!  Bryson LOVES the water slides and we were even told by one of the lifeguards to try to put him on one of the big kid ones (like really big ones) but it made Mommy too nervous!

We also took a morning to explore the Newport Aquarium!  Of course, it was a huge hit with Bryson!

On our last morning, we headed over to King's Island!  They have the world's largest animatronic dinosaur exhibit and as I'm sure you realized from our zoo posts, Bryson is a big fan of dinosaurs!  We also tried to do a few rides at kiddie land but Bryson was starting to get a bit under the weather so we decided to cut our losses after the first ride and long line!  It was still a fun morning though!

Fun Filled Weekend!

This weekend was super fun!  Aunt Gigi & Uncle Chris came down for a visit and we packed in tons of fun things in the short 2 days they were here!

First we went to the Dublin pool but because of some thunderstorms we had to leave after an hour!  Then we went for a quick dinner at 101 Beer Kitchen (delicious & even child friendly) and then off to take Bryson to his very first movie in a theater... Monsters University!  It was super cute and he did so great, only getting antsy towards the last 10 minutes!  

We got up early on Sunday morning to head to the zoo, it was super hot but we still had fun in the short 2 hours we were there!  Bryson loves Dinosaur Island & feeding the Larokeets!  

Once Bryson was down for his nap, we left Jeff at home in charge and headed over to get Chris his first tattoo, in honor of Liam!  It turned out better than we could have imagined!  Truly awesome!  

We can't wait for Aunt Gigi & Uncle Chris to come back soon!  Better yet, we wish they could just move here!

We finished off the evening with a short bike ride!!!  Jeff is on vacation this week so I'm sure we will have much more fun in store!


Soccer Camp

Bryson started soccer camp today!  He had so much fun running around and kicking the balls!  He especially liked the "Freeze" game!

We can't wait to play soccer the rest of the summer!

Dinosaur Island & Sting Ray Bay

This year, The Columbus Zoo @ Aquarium opened 2 new exhibits, Dinosaur Island & Sting Ray Bay.

This morning we went to check them out!  Bryson loved both of them although he didn't want to touch the sting rays but he loved watching them!