Nothing better than quality time

with the family! This weekend is just staying home with the family...no where to go, nothing to do but sit at home and watch movies, bake cake/cookies all weekend long. It'll be a long weekend..hehehe I can tell you that! My husband and I usually like to take the kids out every other weekend to either bowling, nature walking or visiting other cities/places. It's fun for the kids and it's quality time spent with the kids. I just hope my kids, when they grow up appreciate all the things we try to do for them and with them. Hopefully they can pass this on to their children as well.

My husband and I are really not party people and hardly go out, maybe once in a blue moon. We hardly drink too. But of course when I do party, I like to get down, you know! hahaha! Hey, it's only once in a very blue moon okay? Lols!

Here is some pics of our family at various places we've been to or have done.

Bottom picture is when we went to visit the waterfall near Green Bay, WI. Waterfall was actually running dry because it was in June already. I love waterfalls so I try to visit at least 1 waterfall a year. Picture is of my husband and my baby underneath the waterfall. I think it would be a lot prettier if the waterfall was running full. I'd love to visit here again. It's just about 15 minutes from Green Bay.

Picture below: Me underneath a pathetic small running waterfall...haha. We traveled all the way to Ohio to Old Man's Cave to visit the various waterfalls they have there but we were a little too late and all the waterfalls had either ran dry or that it had very little running water left. I'm just glad I was able to view a little bit of it...lols. This is a beautiful place to visit/hike. I'd love to visit this place again someday. If you want to see waterfalls, best time to go is at end of March or April. You'd be lucky to catch a glimpse of it when in May/June.

Below: We love taking family walks at the park. We've been to almost every park in the area and cities near us. It's fun for the kids and it's good exercise for the kids as well.  This was at Menominee Park in Oshkosh.

Below: Sometimes we like to just drive around, my kids call it "getting lost" and just see what's out there. Sometimes we see places that we drive by everyday but never thought about just stopping to explore.
We happen to just drive by this beautiful spot down by the Fox River near a restaurant and so we had to stop and explore/take pictures. Behind my son Brandon, is the dam with running water. It's very pretty. Will have to do a photo shoot there once it gets a tab warmer!

Here's another picture down by the Fox river, same location:

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We love visiting beaches every summer and try to do that at least once. Of course there's no beaches here in Appleton so we always travel to Manitowac or Sheboygan to visit their beaches instead. It's about 1 hour drive from here.

We also love to visit botanical gardens/horticultural places as well. Below is a picture of my daughters at the Green Bay Botanical Garden.

Well this is enough pictures and blog for now, not going to bore you all to death..lols.

Well, I hope you and your loved ones enjoy spending time with each other as much as our family does and if you don't, remember that life is too short because in a blink of an eye, you or that loved one could be gone forever. Make time.

 LOVING THIS: “No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?”

 Elbert Hubbard quotes