Plans for summer, vacation or stay-cation ?

It's a long story!   It's on a lake in western WI. MIL started the project probably 4-5 years before she died. The basement crawl space was crumbling and the original blocks had already been lined with a second layer once and that couldn't be done again. DH convinced her to have the whole cabin lifted and added a new walkout basement underneath it. The local guy who did that work is notorious for starting a bunch of projects at once for different people, promising everybody the moon and then falling way short. Most of his subcontractors are pretty much farmers who do something else on the side so they will come work on one person's job for a half day and work on someone else's job the next day for a half day so no one's projects get done on time as promised. It's frustrating.

Long story short, we never had the stairway put in between the two levels. One of the main reasons was that the whole project was not planned out very well in the first place and there was no good way to do it where we wouldn't lose a bedroom. MIL died before even the main construction was complete, and we bought out his sister's share of the place a year later. Remember when I said MIL started it 4-5 YEARS prior to her dying? Yeah, she's been gone almost five years now. It's been almost ten years torn up like that, and we refuse to hire the local guy again.

We also want to redo the bedrooms (moving walls, etc.), but because we were never sure what we were going to do with the stairs we didn't want to spend money fixing something else up to only rip it back out a year or two later. They're currently gutted down to the studs. Spending all that time in a reno-zone is getting really, really old.   I'm just praying that the guy we talked to last year can do it.

We are moving the week after school is out. From Southern TX to northern UT.

And I think dh and I are going to spend a weekend in Vegas for his birthday in july.

Now we no longer have to take vacation in the school breaks, we tend to avoid them! We also tend to prefer shorter trips.
This year, our plans are: 5 days in Prague at the start of June and a week on Crete in late August. Our son is visiting from Australia in late September/early October, so after the obligatory first week at Oktoberfest, we are planning on going to Spain - probably Valencia - for a week as well.

We will be spending a week in Maryland with my husband's family in June or July. We'll rent a big house at Deep Creek Lake. We've done this the past few summers and have had great times.

And my husband and I would like to take a long weekend together, maybe run up to Washington DC before it gets hellishly hot.

And we're hoping to host my nephew here for at least a few days this summer--he is graduating high school, and thinks he would like to major in mechanical engineering this fall. My husband is a mechanical engineer, and we think Tanner should come down and shadow him at work for a few days, see if he thinks that's what he really wants to do.

I'd also love to have my nieces here for a few days, too. It's hard to plan around all their activities, but it's so fun when they're here.

We were going to go camping. Then we couldn't agree on a location. Then we started looking at campgrounds that had cabins to rent. I was like, why are we renting a cabin where we still have to bring bedding, something to cook with, etc? That's not camping. The boys don't care for the beach like they did as kids so we looked at private campgrounds that offered pools. Then in trying to figure out what to do with them - it's hard when you have two teenagers whose interests revolve around their laptops and phones, I realized they don't want to walk around and take in history or sightsee.

So a couple days at Boyne Mountain Resort and the indoor waterpark they have there, a weekend at MIL's house on the lake that is actually not far from the resort, and then later in the summer, a day at Michigan Adventure.

We'll probably throw in a day or two at a local family entertainment place, the drive in theater at least once and any other driving experience we can work in for DS1 who will be completing driver's ed this summer.