Owen 3rd Birthday

Owen had his birthday celebration with his family (Mom & Dad) in Wisconsin Dells.  He had a Hippo Ice Cream Cake that Mommy made, a Army Duck Boat tour, and a trip to Alligator Alley.

Hippo Ice Cream Cake

Army Duck Boat Tour

Grabbing Daddy's Head....because he can...I guess.

Big Foot

Big Foot Car

Albino Alligator

HUGE Python

Cow Bench 

Making a Wish

Zebra

Owen never ceases to surprise me.  We went to the zoo a couple of weeks ago and decided to give Owen a face painting session.  I thought for sure he would select either one of his favorite animals (lion, tiger, hippo, etc...) or maybe a superhero (Spiderman, Batman, etc...).  While he did select an animal, I was fairly surprised to see which one he selected, because he never indicated any real interest in that animal:  ZEBRA   (last picture looks more like Zebra/Gene Simmons)

Various

Riding his trike with his (mom bought) helmet

New Glarus 1902 Fire Truck

Great Dane

Dancing the polka with mom

At the New Glarus Festival

Signing up for Minion Duty

Mom & Owen

Climbing up the "rock wall"

A little scared of the dinosaurs at the zoo

Dad & Son sliding down the slide

Splash Pad

Well deserved break after the splash pad

Planting flowers with Mommy

An Elephant & A Clown

Spiderman

Asked to hold Daddy's hand while he ate pizza

Riding the Rabbit

Petting goats

Watching 4th of July Parade

Skinny Dipper

Petting Zoo 2015

Myrtle Beach

Our vacation this year was to meet my mom in Myrtle Beach, SC for about a week.  She had a condo about a block away from the ocean, and it also had an outdoor pool, an indoor pool, and a lazy river.

The vacation was great.  The adventure getting to Myrtle Beach was not great.  Here is what we dealt with:
- Our flight from Milwaukee to Baltimore was delayed 2 hours.
- We missed our connecting flight (Baltimore to Charleston) due to the delay.
- Our next flight leaving Baltimore was leaving around 8:45.  (Keeping us and Owen in airports over 12 hours that day)
- The 8:45 flight got cancelled.
- We stayed the night in Baltimore and got up at 5am to get 1st flight to Charleston.  On the way to airport in taxi Owen looked at me with a sad puppy dog look on his face and said, "No airport".  Poor guy couldn't take the boredom in airports anymore.
- We got to Charleston.  Our bags did not.
- we finally got our bags Thursday....allowing us to utilize the luggage we had packed for 1.5 days before we headed back to Milwaukee.

Sandy Feet

Beach & The Dude

Inside a Giant Clam

Swimming with Daddy

Blowing Bubbles

Riding with Woody (and Chilly Willy)

Reaching for the pretty flowers

Wanting to hold hands

Loved the waves (but had to be held by daddy)

Could not for the life of me get him to look at the camera for this pic

Attacking Daddy in the pool