Vacation Time!

This is the week of our annual summer vacation, so I hope you don't mind if I share a few favorite photos of our vacation adventures...

My husband Brad and I have two great kids - our 11 year old son Isaiah and our daughter Ashley who is 7.

We started off our vacation doing some of our kid's favorite local activities right here in the Madison area.

We are blessed to live within a short drive to the Henry Vilas Zoo. We love this zoo! It's small enough to not be overwhelming but big enough to have a great selection of animals - and best of all it's free!

Ashley loves animals and wants to be a 'zoo-keeper' when she grows up, so you can imagine that this is one of her favorite places to go. Whenever we go, we always take pictures of the kids in front of the various educational posters that are scattered around the zoo. It's fun to see how much they've grown each year. Brad likes to get in on the fun too, as you can see.

Isaiah loves to mini golf. We went to our favorite local mini golf course. They have an amazing indoor course along with two outdoor courses. Each hole is decorated differently so of course I had to take lots of photos of the kids posing in front of the various items at several different holes.

We were pleasantly surprised when we got there, that all mini golfing was free for the day! How cool is that? So, the four of us were able to play 36 holes of mini golf for FREE! What a great gift for daddy's wallet! Both boys putted a hole in one yesterday - so that was the icing on top of the cake!

Jessica