Random Photo Shoot

After church one day we decided to venture on over to Noerenberg Gardens to checkout the flowers and ended up with a pretty decent photo shoot with just our cell phones.  It's amazing how far technology has come in our lifetime and to think we can take pictures on our phone now is pretty incredible.  I feel like I've captured so many fun moments in our life solely because of phone cameras.

The Fair

We hit up the Carver County Fair again this year.  Kids wanted to ride and ride and ride some more!!  We may have seen some pouty faces when we told them we were done with rides.  We checked out the llamas, goats, sheep, pigs, bunnies, chickens, geese, ducks and I'm sure more that I'm forgetting.  We devoured a nice healthy dinner of corn dogs, cheese curds and lemonade. ;)  Fair food is just so tasty!!  Until next year...

Cabin Time

At the end of July we headed up to my parent's cabin in Port Wing.  We stopped at Amnicon Falls on the way up to enjoy a little hike in the wilderness.  Well we enjoyed most of it....Caleb was running and tripped on a tree root and skinned up his elbow.  I thought he had been stabbed with a knife for how dramatic he was being.  Hehe.  Throwing rocks across the stream distracted Caleb from his elbow, but as soon as he was done doing that he was quickly reminded how much it hurt.  You can even see the pain on his face in the picture below of Caleb and Zoe.

This place was so beautiful and so peaceful, I could've walked around for hours.

Next stop, Port Wing!  We relaxed, fished, swam (just the kids), went for a boat ride, played at the park, walked along the shoreline, collected cool rocks, visited another waterfall, rode the four-wheeler, played some intense battles of Go Fish, sunbathed on the deck, enjoyed each other's company and ate some really good food.

Oh and the weekend wouldn't be complete without a little ice cream!!

Hendrix Daniel

My handsome nephew was born on July 5th while we were on vacation so we stopped by a week later to see him.  He's so adorable and so incredibly perfect!!!  Caleb and Zoe are so excited to have another cousin!!  Welcome to the world Hendrix!!!  You will be loved SO MUCH!!

12 years

Wow we've been married 12 years!!!  What a ride.  Dave surprised me with dinner at Jefe in Northeast Minneapolis St. Anthony and Main area.  After, we walked across the Stone Arch Bridge to Izzy's Ice Cream for one of my favorite sweet treats.  The ice cream cooled us down from our warm walk so we headed to Gold Medal Park nearby to relax.  Dave snuck in a quick snooze on a bench while I laid in the grass.  Shortly after we moseyed on over to the Guthrie to see West Side Story which was phenomenal.  By the time the show was done it was dark outside and walking back over the Stone Arch Bridge at night is absolutely breath taking.  Minneapolis at night is so incredibly beautiful.  It was such a lovely evening.  Here's to many many more anniversaries babe! XOXO!

Jellystone

We took our very first vacation with the kids (not including family cabins).  We went with the Diaz family to Jellystone park in Warrens, Wi and had such a great time!  The kids still talk about going back there.  They played so hard every day that they were wiped by bed time.  From pool time, to mini golf, to dance parties, bonfires, games, events, arcade, playing at the park, basketball, etc. We definitely see ourselves going back again.  Check out the cool video Dave put together from our weekend!!

Jellystone video

Sports

In January Caleb had his very first tennis lesson.  I remember they all lined up to hit the tennis ball and when the coach bounced the ball to Caleb he wound up to crush it.  He wound up so hard that the coach ducked in fear and after said "Caleb not so hard, just a nice soft swing".  I knew that would happen because Caleb does everything full force.  He had 7 lessons and did very well.  Below is a picture of Caleb (the cool guy in the black shirt and shorts) perfecting his game.

Caleb thoroughly enjoyed his first basketball camp and was one of the most enthusiastic kids in the class.  He was eager to answer any questions the coach asked...no surprise there.  The coach asked "When you're not on offense, you're on..." and Caleb yelled "DEFENSE".  I think it's safe to say Dave has passed on his love for basketball to little Mr. Caleb.  Below is a picture of him before leaving for camp.

Zoe wanted to be included in on the photo shoot so she grabbed a volleyball.  Good choice girl.

Ok back to Caleb going to camp.  Below the coach is showing Caleb how to hold the basketball when shooting.

And then this is the stance when on defense.  At this point Caleb is now pretty much at the head of the class by the coach instead of by the kids.  Haha!  Natural born leader???

Caleb's first soccer game was cancelled yesterday because it's so cold and tomorrow's game is cancelled as well.  Come on MN, it's time to warm up!!!  It's snowing outside as I write this and it's April 8th.  So his first game will be next Saturday and it's indoors.  They still had their pictures taken yesterday and Caleb is on the Yellow Bison team.  Oliver in our neighborhood is on his team along with Avery who he goes to pre-school with.