On the road again

Growing up Tickles Style

24 hours to Virginia every other summer.

12 hours to the Rocky Mountains every spring break.

9 hours to Arkansas every few years around thanksgiving.

3 hours to the Lake of the Ozarks 200 million times a summer.

3 fiesty girls.

2 parents.

1 tv.

My parents were very brave.  My parents also created three little travel monsters who are unafraid of roadtrips/traveling.  

These past few months my sister Mandy in Chicago has been to Kansas City, Des Monies, Aruba, Southern California, St. Louis, Wisconsin Dells, the Ozarks and I'm sure I've missed a few places.

In this same time frame Sandy in KC has been to Des Moines, Chicago, Aruba, the Ozarks and is heading off to a 3 week vacation (traveling alone) to Italy to meet up with friends from Europe.  And she's also talking about taking a southern road trip with friends.

Jon, Owen & I have taken a few trips ourselves (albeit not as exotic as Aruba, Italy or So Cal) these past few months.  Well, that's not completely true, Jon went with our church to the Dominican Republic for a mission trip in March.  Which was so wonderful by the way.  Maybe sometime he'll do a post and write about it.  I've already written about the trips we took in March & April.  So since those trips, we've been keeping busy!  Here are some photos from some of our different trips.

Cedar Rapids at End of April

Owen with Great-grandpa Schreiner

Owen, Grandpa Scott & Cousin Ben

Chicago Trip with Rachie & no babies!

1st stop in Chicago - We bypassed the pizza because "it'll take too long" and headed to a hot dog stand at 2 in the afternoon.  This is the line that welcomed us.  We stood here for 2 hours.

This is the hot dog restaurant.  Worth it?  Umm... maybe for guys.

Rach and I in our uber-trendy H&M sunglasses. :)

Farmer Family Reunion in Leroy, Kansas

My little mama playing a minute to win it game.

My grandpa, his brother and his nephews.

My sweet Grandma enjoying something at the reunion.

Lake Trip #1 with Kai Ling

Owen and his lake get-up.  Only he wore the sunglasses and hat for about as long as it took to take the picture.

Grandpa Tickles & Owen are good buddies.  This was Owen's favorite spot on the boat.

Grandma Tickles & Owen - he enjoyed cuddling with her during the boat rides!

Kai Ling enjoying the FREEZING water.

Lake Trip #2 with the whole Tickles gang

Yes.  We let our 14 month old ride the tube.  And he liked it.

Jon slaloming (sp?)!

Goofy Mandy.

Mandy's boyfriend, Aaron, had a GREAT fall that we captured on camera.

This one is only on here for Rachel and Kelsey.  Here is a baby belly shot.  Enjoy!  (I wonder if they have even made it through the too-long post.)

Aunt Sandy and Owen.  Even though he liked the boat he had this same serious face most of the time.

We have enjoyed all of our travels and especially love the time with friends and family!