So…I let Christopher log into my library account so he could reserve a few books…I swear I left him unattended for not even 20 minutes. How much trouble could he cause with a library card??? He got a little carried away. Here are the two trips he had to make the next week for all of the books he reserved!!! He’s been working through these over the past month – and loving it! I guess there are worse problems I could have with him 😉
Here’s Megan at her garden plot from her summer classes the past few months at the Chanhassen Arboretum. Check out her out-of-control dill that she’s holding. Eggplant, beets, sunflowers, peppers, you name it. She absolutely loved this class and bringing food home each week that she grew. She has quite the green thumb!
Here’s one of her veggies that they dubbed, “running carrot” 🙂
Running Megan. What’s orange and sounds like a parrot? A carrot.
Check out the sign that Colleen painted for us. So cool! Love it! It’s hanging in our living room now. Step 1: Paint sign. Step 2: Live these rules every day 🙂
Colleen ran the Stomp Out Suicide 5k with me this year. We ran into Baymax and Hiro while we were up there. It’s a great race for a great purpose in a smaller city north of the Twin Cities. Every year it has been growing and growing. This year’s featured speaker before the walk was John Moe. He did an awesome job talking about suicide and depression and his struggles and the loss of his brother. My favorite quote was that “depression hates matching shirts” – gotta love it at an event like this. Depression hated everything about the fun and joy and sunshine and matching shirts that day. Fight it every day and spread the word!
For the first time ever we took off a day of work to go to the first day of the Minnesota State Fair. We turned into “those people”, but we did it for the right reason – we got to see Colleen march in the parade.
Swinging at the fair
And here’s Colleen at a high school football game. She dances throughout the game (and of course half-time) and it has been a TON of fun for us to watch. The football team is good, but the dancers are better!!! I proudly wear my bedazzled “Dance Mom” sweatshirt everywhere I go. Well…I would if I had one.
This was right after a kick sailed out of bounds and surprised the dancers at how close it came to them.
We had another great trip up to Grand Marais. Peaceful. Relaxing. Nice weather. No bugs. Great donuts. Fun times. Love my family. Good food. New brewery. Tons of walking and hiking. Kayaking. We would still love it if others joined us in an upcoming year. It is the perfect little town to relax, kick back, engage in conversation, and not get distracted by a million other things that will rot your mind. Who’s in?
Cold water in Lake Superior! This is our first night in Grand Marais this year. We are way out on Artist Point and the kids are at the farthest point on some large rocks jutting into the lake. Another step or two and they’d be in over their heads!
“The” annual photo. Kids have grown just a bit since so many years ago.
Megan and I go here every morning. Our special trip together to get donuts, muffins, skizzles, bismarks, pullaparts, turnovers, roundups, and coffee. World’s best!
Awesome dry river bed. I kept looking back expecting to see a wall of water rushing at us. Guess that only happens in the movies, but still, that would have been cool!
We don’t always go mini-golfing…but when we do, we do it with goats on a platform. Yep, goats. Climbing up and down a ramp to get food that kids like Megan torment them with. Megan figured out that she could jiggle the machine to get handful after handful of goat food. And that’s what she did.
Psycho eyes. Creepy. Quit looking at me.
Lake Superior is insanely cold. But that never stops Megan…who lures the other two into it too. Wait for it…
We just about had all of Two Island Lake to ourselves. Beautiful day – from foggy start to sun later in the morning. We saw a loon and a few different kinds of ducks. So peaceful. Loved it.
Morning webs
Guess we watered this too much – yikes!
We’re being followed!
Not sure that I’d recommend either of these, and definitely not the combination again 🙂 Mini-Donut Beer (this was ok – complete with sugar on the rim) and Maple Bacon Apple Tipsy Pie (this was a bad combination of apples, bacon, booze, and syrup – not good).
Chris at the fair. He was confident he would win at this game.
And he did! He won a monkey.
He was confident he could win again.
He won a bigger monkey! Just what we need…another monkey in the house.
