South Dakota

We made our annual trip to visit family in South Dakota. This year we went to Madison, SD to visit Jon's older brother Chris and see his wonderful new house. We spent lots of time in Chris's giant yard, at the amazing local water park and Spencer spent one morning with his cousnins at the local playground. We even had a great S. Dakota treat of frying up some walleye (a new experience for this long island girl!).

The first night of our trip we stayed at the house of Chad (Jon's brother) and Kari and their three kids - Emily, Gavin (our godson), and William. Spencer had so much fun hanging out with his cousins and we had a great time catching up with Chad and Kari. Emily especially loved taking care of Spencer and we loved watching all the kids together.

Spencer absolutely loved the airplanes...

Back in July Jon's parents Vonnie and Don visited us for a weekend.

Here they are in the garden with Spencer.