Easter and Thief River Falls

We spent last weekend in Thief River Falls with some friends who have now become our "summer" buddies (well they are our year round buddies but we have a lot of plans coming up with them this summer). We had a blast all weekend and will most definitely be going back again.

Easter egg hunt.
That bunny sure can hide these things...
All ready for church.
Fun with friends!
Hey - who's the big kid??
This kid is so stinking cute I could cuddle her all day long.
Horsing around with Uncle Peter.
Sometimes you take a picture of nothing really, and feel suddenly very blessed to be surrounded by such wonderful people.
Exhausted.

Who Would've Thought?

I never thought that I would be a camper let alone spend valuable vacation time doing just that. I'm a city girl and when I vacation, I stay in hotels, I need electricity and a pool to sit beside. And then I had children - children who like my husband like to go camping. Their mission was simple - convert Mommy and in a team effort that even involved our friends they managed to do what was unthinkable only a short while ago.

Last week, we bought this:

And I'm excited about it. How about that?

About Time For Another Update

So this will mostly be a picture update - I've been a delinquent blogger these days! Here are some Christmas pictures and also a few new swimming lesson pictures.

We enjoyed a wonderful Christmas season - it was far more relaxed and spread out than it normally is for us and it made it much easier to sit back, relax and enjoy. I even was able to host my first Christmas dinner this year and I so enjoyed being able to be at home with our family around our dinner table.

The girls have started up again in swimming lessons and in skating lessons. I even have been able to participate in a Zumba class with my sister-in-law Megan the past few months which has been a nice way to not only get out of the house and exercise, but also a great way to spend some one on one time with Megan.

We celebrated my birthday last week as well as our 6th wedding anniversary - my how time flies!! We had a party last weekend and had a great time! Next weekend, we will be taking some time to get away to celebrate our anniversary.

We also had our admissions interview for Emily to attend a Christian school in our area. She received her acceptance letter the other day so now we have to attend an open house in March and then she will go for a half day at the end of May to see her classroom and get a feel for the school itself. It's hard to believe that she is starting school in the fall.

That's about it for us. I'm halfway wondering if anyone even checks this blog out anymore since I haven't posted in so long!

I'm So Behind...

So long - no post. Life seems to move at an ever increasing speed - and finding the time to blog gets left behind. How can it be that the last post I published was about Danica's birthday? Halloween and Emily's birthday have both come and gone and not a word nor picture from me to be seen!

We had Tinkerbell and Dumbo stop by on Halloween; started skating lessons and had a party fit for a 4 year old princess.

So here's a pictorial update from our family from the past month and a half!

Birthday Pictures and Flower Girls