More Catch-up---Week-end in Iowa

The last week-end in September we went to visit the Wissinks in Iowa.  Jeremiah's daycare was closed on Friday, so we got to spend the day with him.  He had at least part of our day planned for us, as he had explained to Rachel the day before. He said that we were going to go the the park, and that Grandpa would pull him in the wagon.

He also said that we would bring fruit snacks to eat on the way home, which we did. (no photo to prove it, though.)  And he said that Grandma would bring her camera to take a picture of him on the straight slide.....

 ...and we also got one on the curvy slide.

Mastering the climbing wall, with a little help from Grandpa

And a few other playground shots:

Don't we look like we should be on the cover of  Spark?  :)

Jeremiah was very excited to find that someone had left a bunch of sidewalk chalk at the park.  He had lots of fun drawing on the sidewalk and "coloring" some bricks. 

Friday evening we picked up our dinner at Subway and then went to Jester Park to have a picnic with the elk and the bison. We ate our sandwiches in an area where we could watch the animals. (Apparently it was not really intended to be a picnic area because there were no tables and not even any garbage cans.)

Jeremiah and the "fake" elk

Jeremiah and the "real" elk

We did see bison, too, but they were being rather camera-shy. There were some fun things for Jeremiah to play on.

After such a gorgeous day on Friday, it was kind of disappointing to wake up to a chilly, rainy day on Saturday, especially since Rachel and Adam were having a garage sale that day.  We had been busy Friday night pricing things, and hauling things into the garage, so we opened the garage door and figured we'd see if we'd get any shoppers.  We were pleasantly surprised by how may people came, and they got rid of quite a bit of stuff. These pictures were taken near the end, after the biggest item--a love seat--had been sold.

Jeremiah kept trying to "rescue" things from the sale.

Grandma loves reading bedtime stories to Jeremiah....and Molly.

It's sort of become our tradition to go to Panera for lunch after church on Sunday before we head back to Wisconsin.  Jeremiah pretty much made my day (or maybe my whole week-end?) when he claimed a table for two and announced, "This is for me and Grandma!"  We did allow the others to pull another table over to join us. 

And another tradition....

...posing for a picture just before we head for home.