Childrens Museum

We stayed over in the cities and took the kids to the Minnesota Children's Museum. The kids had a fun time. Here we are at the ant exhibit. William loved crawling around this one.


Charlie on the big Ant!

Grace and William on the ant!

Here they all are at the Lego exhibit.

Grace wanted her face painted. She wanted a rainbow over her entire face. So, here it is!

Lake Hubert day 2!

Day 2 Grace got out on the boat and went fishing. She only wanted to reel in the fish once I caught it. She just wanted to sit on the boat, eat seeds and relax!

Here is her fish. She wouldn't even touch it!

Cousin Zach's fish. He is a good fisherman. He caught the most fish that day!

Ross took Charlie out on the canoe fishing. That kid could of fished all weekend. I was shocked at how well he new how to row. He is a natural!

Lake Hubert weekend!

Every year Ross's Aunt and Uncle invite us up to their cabin in northern Minnesota. The cabin in on Lake Hubert, in Nisswa MN. It was a good weekend with family. The kids of course had a blast! Day 1 we got in fishing and tubing! It was a gorgeous day out!

Charlie even got out on the tube! He loved it! He could of went forever, and he loved going fast!

And Grace getting ready to go on the tube! She didn't like going very fast, only because the water would splash in her eyes then! Such a difference between girls and boys!

Charlie's fish he caught all by himself!

William was not so sure about this fish thing!

The boys all fishing!

Flash Flood!

We got hit by a lot of rain tonight! Our rain gauge was overflowing, I heard we got about 4 inches plus in 2 hrs. I believe it!! In the 5 years we have lived here, I have never seen so much rain. Our back yard flooded! Luckily, we had no rain in our basement!

Ross's parents were up for a couple days. Charlie and Grandpa had some time outside playing.

We had a bonfire at night. The neighbor boy is 6 months younger than William. Here they are sharing the cozy coupe.

Apparently William thought he needed to sit on Braelyn. Suprisingly they played very well together.

Dance Recital

Grace had her first dance recital today. She has been waiting for this day for a long time. Here she is with her make up on....

This is back in the dressing room. Grace is ready for her first dance. We did video take the performances and I did record them with my phone, but I can not figure out how to upload them anywhere.

Tap costume.

Grace after her recital. Daddy bought his little dancer some flowers! She was very proud of herself and so were we!

And William...he decided that I was taking too many pictures of just Grace and thought I needed to take some of him. So here is his picture!

Dance Rehearsal!

Grace had her dance recital rehearsal tonight. It lasted a lot longer than I thought it would. We can't take pictures during the actual recital, we have to do it during rehearsal.

Babysitting Aiden!

The kids and I headed to the cities to help watch my nephew Aiden who is 4 months old. It gave me a taste of what it would be like to have 4 kids....and I decided after 1 day that I am good with 3!!! It was actually a really good day. The kids were great. Grace was very loving to Aiden. She wanted to hold him and feed him all the time. She really didn't like it when he was sleeping. She carried his monitor around all day checking on him to see if he was awake yet. She would make a great big sister! But I think she will have to be happy with being a big cousin.

This is Aiden's bumbo seat. Charlie sat in this for a whole hour at one point watching a movie. It must be comfortable.

And William, always wants his picture taken.

Every time I put Aiden under this thing, William thought he had to join him. If Aiden wasn't under it, he didn't even notice it. I felt bad for Aiden, as you can see, William is much bigger then him. I am sure Aiden was wondering who this person is and why he was lying next to him. He never did fuss though. He was such an easy kid to watch.