The Great Outdoors.

We can officially check off "Family Camping Trip" off of our bucket list!  The Strombergs took it to the great outdoors!

We went on a camping trip with a mom's group in Morgan Hill.  There were about 80 people total and a TON of kids!  We shared our campsite with a wonderful family whom we knew prior to the trip.  (Thank goodness or else it would've been really awkward being site buddies with a bunch of strangers!)

We had so much fun hiking, making s'mores, getting dirty (and boy did we!) and breathing in the fresh air!

Here are the kiddos on our last day enjoying a squeezy applesauce thingy!

Happy trails everyone!

Family Vacation

My family and I ventured to Southern California last weekend for a Disneyland good time!  Sadly to say, but this has been our FIRST family vaca that didn't involve visiting family!  (although we did visit our tax guy.. but he doesn't count right??)  We spent one day at California Adventure and one day at Disneyland.  The girls (between fits) had a BLAST! Gracie is completely into princesses and so we HAD to meet some.  She has however met some before, but it been about a year.  For those of you who know the "princess meeting line" it is tortorous!  It moves soooo slowly and takes what seems a lifetime and kiddos are getting cranky and into no good!  But when we get moments like the ones below... it makes it oh so worth it!

I do realize that Tinker Bell isn't a princess.. but isn't this picture priceless??

While down south we got to see of our good friends; the Sulivans :)  (I think this was one of Gracie's favorite parts!) 

Getting ready to cook us dinner!

The next Chef Ramsey!

 

 

Aren't they just the cutest??

We had a hotel room with two beds and we were lucky enough to snuggle in close with our girls which we don't normally get the chance to do while in bed.  The best was waking up next them and seeing the smile on their faces.  Just heavenly!  It was sad to say goodbye... however it was nice to be back at home!  We'll see you soon SoCal!

Do you see Gracie's face??

Off to the Mid-West

We went to the Mid-West to visit Jim's family over Labor Day weekend; which was a really long time ago! Traveling with two little ones is always interesting. We had long days, off nap/bedtime schedules and a few tantrums. But it was of course all worth it. We had a really nice time. While there we went to an apple farm called Apple Holler and Lincoln Park Zoo. The girls really enjoyed themselves.

Gracie was brave enough to feed the goats!

Gracie picking an apple, which technically we didn't pay for :)

We went through a corn maze.. which if it were me alone, I'd probably still be there!

This pretty much says it all...

This was really cool. We got to see the polar bear under water. The girls got a kick out of this!

Chicago

See you again, Chicago!