- Bathing suit
- Sun hat
- Sun glasses
- Flip flops
- Beach books
- Sunscreen
- Tank tops
- Capris
- Maxi skirts
- Sundress
- Passport

- 12/14- Leadership Christmas Potluck at work
- 12/16- Annual Family Christmas Party
- 12/17- Caring Tree gift party at work
- 12/17- Gift Exchange Reunion
- 12/23- Christmas with my kids
- 12/24- Christmas Eve morning breakfast
- 12/24- Late night Wrapping Party
- 12/25- Christmas with the family
- 1/5- KAC Christmas party
- 1/19- Directors Holiday party

- (At age 2) “Put down that crowbar”
- “You’re the best kid ever. Except for Jesus.”
- “Don’t be on fire.”
- “Go chainsaw nine more people and see what happens.”
- “Call your dad and tell him he has to come home because I’m stuck to the carpet with a fishing hook.”
- “No, it’s not an umbrella. But it is a raincoat.”
- “Good thing you’ll be filming it when you light your friend on fire. That way they can use it as evidence at the trial.”

- Vanderveer Park
- Swim at the Y
- Bettendorf Family Museum
- Putnam/IMAX
- Channel Cat water taxi
- Red White & Boom
- ComedySportz
- LeClaire (American Pickers, Happy Joes, shops)
- Steel Plow shakes
- Blackhawk State Park
- Game Night

- Swim With Craig – English Channel Swim Challenge (May – July)
- Summer Camp
- Swim Lessons / Private Lessons / Adult Lessons / Camp Lessons
- Safe All Summer – Family Fun Day (June 10)
- Learn to Row, Rowing Clinic (June 19-22)
- Body Combat / Body Attack / Body Vive / Body Flow
- Tee Time – Family Fun Day (July 15)
- Slim Down Challenge (June 5-July 30)
- Grynd, Advanced Hard Rock Yoga
- Dodge Ball Clinic (July 10-13)
- Pickle Ball Clinic (July 17-20)
- Aqua Ex-Stravaganza, free water exercise classes (June 10)
- Boy Scout Swim Tests (June 10)
- Running Clinic (June 12-15)
- Tumbling
- Tae Kwon Do
- T-Ball Clinic (July 24-27)
- Paddleboard & Kayak Rentals
- Going Gaga, Gaga Ball Tournament – Family Fun Day (August 12)
- Personal Training
- Silver Sneakers
- So much more….

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- Mount Rushmore
- Wall Drug (Wall, South Dakota)
- Gillette, Wyoming
- Missoula, Montana (including dinner with 2 college roommates)
- Spokane, Washington
- Idaho (a gas station somewhere along I-90)
- Columbia River Gorge
- Horsetail & Multnomah Falls (Hood River, Oregon)
- Portland, Oregon
- Crescent City, California
- Redwoods National Forest
- A beach somewhere along the California coast
- Trinidad Bay & Memorial Lighthouse (Trinidad, California)
- Redding, California
- Reno, Nevada (visit with the Lewis family)
- Virginia City, Nevada
- Lake Tahoe Overlook
- Bonneville Salt Flats (Utah)
- Salt Lake City, Utah
- Casa Bonita (Denver, Colorado, with another college friend)
- State Capitol Building, Lincoln, Nebraska
- Huxley, Iowa (Aunt & Uncle’s house)
Columbia River Gorge
Multnomah Falls
State Line

Wyoming
Salt Flats

Casa Bonita

- His sense of humor is unmatched.
- He’s smart and conceptual and thinks deeply.
- He never gets embarrassed. About anything.
- He taught himself to play guitar.
- A headbanger from the start, he now headbangs in his own heavy metal band.
- He’s hilarious.
- He is deeply compassionate and empathetic.
- He desires to make the world a better place.
- He works ridiculously hard.
- He desires experiences more than things.
- He sets goals and works to achieve them.
- He’s been “adulting” since the age of 19, paying his own rent and bills and way.
- He married his high school sweet heart and loves her with his entire being.
- He has a global outlook and cares about the world outside of his own.
- He laughs with his whole body.
- He carries things for me, (which is to say that he helps me any time I need it.)
- He programs electronics for his grandparents.
- He still loves old school video games.
- He has an inborn gift for music.
- He hugs his mama and tells me he loves me.
- He is never afraid to show affection to people he cares about.
- He has been through some things that would cripple lesser men, but the fires have forged him into a resilient and capable man.
- He is the best thing I have ever had a part in creating.

- Any beach anywhere
- Costa Rica
- Jamaica
- Southern California
- Cayman Islands
- Charleston, SC & then a cruise

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