Bedroom Decor

Both kids will have new room decor when we buy a new house. Riley's new room will be fairies, but not dorky fairies and not Tinkerbell...more like nice, "grown up" fairies that she can grow into when she's older. My friend Jess made some letters for her son Finn and they turned out so cute I asked her to do them for Riley and Rowan too. Here's what she has so far for Roo, (her instructions were that I have some blue Fairy paintings, use that for inspiration). Rowan's are still in progress, and these are not a finished work, but pretty close and I love them already! Thanks Jess!

Dragonfly Invasion

While we were up North, there were a few occasions where we noticed a LOT of dragon flies. First when we were at the turtle races in Nisswa and there was a swarm overhead before the race, and then one night (and really only the one night) while were at the lake. These dragonflies were very friendly and would land on you often.

Sunsets over Pelican

Bird Nerd - Pelican Lake Edition

Can you identify these Minnesota Birds? I will say this for Pelican Lake, it has WAY more bird watching than Hubert did.

We Make Bath Time Lots of Fun

Bathtime for 6 kids was an adventure, but we switched off different aunts and uncles for the job and it went pretty smoothly!

Pelican Lake

Not sure what Doodle was afraid of, might have been all 6 kids and all the screaming? Kiley is busted trying to go on the dock for the 100th time, Adie and Kiley have started to figure out they might be friends (Adie often asked where Kiley was when she was napping!) And Riley with her pipe cleaner crown.

Pelican Lake - Heeeerrreee We Go!

Starting from Day One, here's a few shots from the beach. WE only got one day in the water, but a few days in the sand to play. We found the caterpillar on the first day, put it in Riley's bug box and 2-3 days later went to release him, only to find him in a cocoon so we had to bring the critter home. Guess we'll see what kind of butterfly we have in a few weeks. Hope it's not a scary moth;)

We're Back!

I bet you didn't even know we were gone! We just got back from out week long trip Up North with my family. LOTS of photos to come, but I have to sort through them first. Let's just say this trip was an adventure. I started the trip with a pretty scary allergic reaction to something I ate felt better for a few days then spent the rest of the trip sick or sorta sick from something else altogether? Argh! But we still managed to help the local economy and find enough fish to keep the boys busy. This year was also a new location for us. We outgrew the house at Lake Hubert so we tried a new place on Pelican Lake...very nice, had some positives and negatives by comparison, but we will go back again next year, the trip is already booked:) Stay tuned for lots of photo posts soon. I took almost 400 pictures!

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I'm thankful that we are able to stay with my parents while the house is on the market. Not a whole lot of activity yet, still tweaking the price, but so glad I don't have to keep the house spotless with a three-year-old and a 4-month-old in the house!

Still Catching Up

Happy Birthday Auntie Katie!

Today my sister is yikes...like 35 or something;) Eeek! Happy birthday Auntie Katie. I wish I knew how to do a photo video montage like you did for Meg and I because you deserve a tribute fitting of a wonderful mom, sister and friend! Sadly, I have no access to my photos of you except one that I need to repeat from Zack's b-day photos. We love you! (P.S. I refuse to put this post to a New Kids on the Block birthday song!)

Cuteness Continued

More Riley Photography

More Random Cute

Doddle found his hands!

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I am thankful this week for all my nieces and my nephew. Zacky celebrated his 4th birthday on Monday. In his honor, here's a funny story. They were talking to Zack about his cousins since he had just been to Oregon to visit his cousins Meghan and Emily. He was naming his cousins and he left out Rowan so Katie asked him, "What about Rowan" and he said, "Rowan isn't my cousin, he's a boy!" All his other cousins are girls:)