T-Ball

D reading her book to Luna.



We played with some moon sand this week. That stuff is m-e-s-s-y! That will definitely be a once in a while toy.





Here are some pictures of D and her "blue" teammates for t-ball.





Here is the whole team with the coaches.



Here's the tree that fell down during the storm Thursday night at the cabin.



Here's the before...



...and after with the tile in the bathroom. Now we just need to grout it.

Sauk Rapids Visit with the Cousins

We found our sprinkler ball and took it out for the first time this summer for the kids. They just loved it!



Warming up after a run in the sprinkler.



On Sunday we went to the Teddy Bear Park in Stillwater. These are the "before" shots...before M tripped and fell and landed on a park bench, giving him a nasty black and blue cheek and black eye. Ouch!





Tuesday was Kid's Day at the Shoreview Farmer's Market. They had free pie, a puppet show, and crafts for the kids to do. Too bad it was 90 plus degrees outside. I was just dripping wet less than an hour there.



Steve took the kids to the St. Anthony Village parade Friday night. They got a ton of candy!



They had a great time at the street dance, too.



On Saturday, we went to my sister's new house in Sauk Rapids for my niece's birthday party. We stayed after the party and went swimming in their community pool. Here is M modeling his new goggles.



The boys had a great time playing together.



D loved the orca whale.



And the birthday girl saved and released a little frog she found at the pool. He was cute, and very hoppy! It was hard to get a picture of him.



Next stop...the Benton County Fair. Here are the cousins posing in the cut outs.



M didn't quite grasp the concept.



They had a little garden where you could "dig" up potatoes.



There were a lot of animals to pet...goats...



...bunnies...



...and more bunnies...



...and sheep.



This is just plain hilarious.



All of the cousins got flavored honey sticks.





Now M is getting the hang of it. Cute cows!



We stopped at Cabela's on the way home and the kids had a blast at the target range.

Little Canada Days

Our preschool group went to the train museum at Bandana Square this week. The kids just loved it. There was a huge model train set up that took up nearly the whole museum space. There were several buttons throughout the place that the kids could push to do things like light up a police car or lift up a railroad crossing bar.






This bell sounded like the signal you here when a train is coming.



Daughter-in-a-box



On Saturday went to Little Canada Days and got to see a joey among other animals at the petting zoo.



Then our kids got transformed into animals (D is a kitty and M is a puppy, just in case you couldn't tell).



Part of Little Canada Days was a car show. There must have been about 300 cars there! We enjoyed walking around and looking at them all (they just kept coming and coming into the fairgrounds). D and M especially liked this interactive one where they could draw on it with chalk.



Saturday evening we went to a wedding. The kids enjoyed getting down and dancing.

Progress at the Cabin

Sit and spin fun at the cabin.

We worked hard last weekend to get the cabin ready for when Steve's parents come to visit. The tub is in! Let the sheetrocking begin.



The door is up on the bathroom! Privacy! Well...kind of...there's no door handle or lock yet, which means a little person is bound to follow you in there.



Steve's parents came into town the following Friday, and we went up to the cabin for an extended weekend. Here are the boys connecting the pipes for the tub and shower.



The kids just can't get enough of being in the water. Snack time with a cookie from the Rock Creek Cafe.





The sheetrock has been painted. It's finally coming along.



We've been wanting to go berry picking at a local berry farm, but their hours, 4-8 pm, haven't worked out great for us. Finally, the weather was nice and we made it over there this weekend. The blueberries were out of control (I think we could live off of the fruit from just one blueberry bush) and the raspberries were plentiful as well. The kids loved picking (and eating) the fruit.







Grandma and D had a tea party with Lorna Doone's and Fresca in the new tea set Grandma gave the kids.



M wanted in on the party after waking up from his nap.



The fixtures are in! Now we can finally take a shower scrape the popcorn ceiling?! Ugh. Just when I thought we were done!

Story time with Grandma.



The ceiling is scraped, mudded, and painted. The shower curtain rod is installed...



...and the shower curtain is hung. I did take a shower in it today...heavenly!