Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Max and Laney enjoyed doing some theater this summer.  Max got to play Charlie bucket in Morton Youth Theater's production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Laney played one of the Grandma's confined to the bed with the other grandparents.  It was a lot of fun and I was surprised at what a good singer Max was.  They kids had fun and made a lot of good friends.

4th of July in Sheboygan

We celebrated 4th of July with my family on Lake Michigan this year.  We all spent the weekend in a cosy condo at the Blue Harbor resort in Sheboygan, Wi.  Fun was had at the beach, watching fireworks, going to Storybook Gardens and even a trip up to Green Bay to the Bay Beach amusement park.  For some reason the beach on Lake Michigan had a bunch of small dead fish floating in the water but Max and Brielle had fun collecting them in a huge bucket.  Cat and I enjoyed getting away to Il Rotrovo for some wood fired Neopolitan styled pizza that was really delicious.  I think everyone enjoyed this weekend getaway in Wisconsin.

Lawn Olympics 2013

The Keffler's hosted another edition of the Lawn Olympics with a badminton tournament in which I couldn't buy a win.   Although we did convince Eric to participate...maybe next year we can get my wife out on the court.

 

Birthday in the Park

We celebrated my mom's birthday at a park in Morton and rather than cook out we decided to bring along Colonel Sanders.   Enjoy the photos.

Brown's Oakridge Zoo

For Mother's Day Catherine decided she wanted to hold a baby leopard.  So we decided to take the one hour drive to Brown's Oakridge Zoo in Smithfield where they allow you to hold and pet baby exotic animals.  If you've never been to Brown's Zoo before it is basically a family that started a zoo in their backyard similar to the movie "We Bought a Zoo".  They have lions, tigers and all sorts of animals and they give you a tour of the zoo.  The baby animals available to hold depend on what babies they are currently bottle feeding and when we went it was a baby black leopard.