After
school got out in THE MIDDLE OF JUNE, my friend Jolynn and I were excited to go to Country Splash. It was the first time that either of us had tried out this country music fest and we had a blast. We saw Kenny Chesney, Little Big Town, Lady Antebellum, Rascal Flatts, Darius Rucker, Miranda Lambert, Clay Walker, SheDaisy, Jason Micheal Carrol, The Dweebs, and others. It was a great time. I think our favorite was Darius Rucker by far. He threw his hat out in the audience and Jolynn caught it. Oh yeah, we were sitting in the second row by then. We will be looking forward to attending next year. We should find out where our seats are soon.The above picture is Jolynn and I with someone who looks a whole lot like Kenny Chesney, but actually was a guy that was sitting a couple of rows back with his wife.
During May and June, Gavin played TBall. I think that he liked it, but will be looking forward to playing on an older team next year. It is hard for kids that young to pay attention for that long. It gets kind of boring for him
sometimes waiting for all of the kids to take a turn at bat.
During the Last week in June, I went to Summerfest in Milwaukee with Jolynn. Summerfest is the world's largest music festival. We originally bought tickets to see Bon Jovi, but ended up buying tickets to also see Counting Crows and Keith Urban (my favorite). It was a great time and a new experience traveling down to the festival on the shuttle bus from a bar near our hotel (the carry-on drinks were great and much cheaper than the ten dollar drinks at the fest) Both concerts were great, but of course my favorite was Keith Urban. We made a mad dash for the aisle when he started playing his guitar while walking up to the middle of the ampitheatre. He is so great in that he always goes out into the audience. I got a chance to see him up close and grabbed his arm while he was playing. ;) We are looking forward to seeing him at Country Splash next year. We are hoping to have great seats for that.
Here are a couple of pictures taken from the Summerfest grounds looking out onto Lake Michigan. Its a really gorgeous place.
During the first week in July, Max, Gavin and I traveled up to Minong for the Ericson family reunion. It was nice to catch up with everyone and had a fun time with the family. As always there were lots of activities. We golfed, played frisbee golf, fished, had a skeet shoot, watched fireworks, played washers and beanbags, and ate a ton. Gavin had a fun time playing with all of his cousins. He never wanted to leave at the end of the day.
During the second week of July, Gavin had swim lessons every day in the afternoon, so we kept busy with that. He passed another class and is starting to swim like a fish! He loves dunking under water and swimming under water. He is learning new strokes like the back stroke.
Gavin and I also went on a sales trip with Max this summer to South Dakota and Nebraska. Gavin was a very good traveler and even helped us move the scrubs in to the sale when we arrived in Nebraska. He spent much of the trip under a table watching Rugrats while we worked at the scrub sale. But we did take some time out for some fun at the pool. Swimming was Gavin's favorite part of the trip.
Brynn and Derrick got married on July 11, 2009. It was a gorgeous wedding. Here is a picture of the whole Burnosky clan.This week, at the end of July, Gavin and I flew out to Denver to visit my Dad, Lori, and Jacob. We had a great time there. We visited the Denver Zoo, went to the water park, went to a couple of estate sales with Dad, ate lots of local food, swam at the hotel pool, and visited a lot. Gavin and Jake were really looking forward to seeing each other.
