Yikes! I'm behind!

I have to appologize, normally I wish my family memebers a Happy Birthday mich closer to the actual date, but living at mom and dad's and having my grandpa in and out of the hospital and now in the nursing home, I have been way behind on downloading pictures and keeping up with the blog. July 5th was Josh's mom's birthday and I totally neglected to post a Happy Birthday wish! We celebrated at Auntie Jessie and Uncle Cory's new place on the 3rd. Happy Birthday Grandma Linda!

Note: (Pics to come, I swear!)

Mini Golfers?

While we were up at the lake, we took a day to play mini-golf in Crosslake with the kids. It might not be adviasable to take kids under the age of 3 to mini golf, but it makes for some pretty funny moments. Kiley wanted to hang with our 3-some and Adrienne wouldn't hit the ball into a hole if it was dirty. Riley and Zack have had lots of practice in Papa's office, so they had the hang of it pretty quick. Meg and I had baby duty and camera duty:)

PS. I had some better pics of Kiley and Adrienne using their hands for clubs, but I can't figure out how to switch the vertical pics after I save them. Ugh. I miss my mac!

Fudge

While we were at Pelican Lake, the kids found a caterpillar and put him Riley's bug box, I think I mentioned this earlier, and he turned into a cocoon. Well, last week "Fudge" as he was named decided to come out and play. We released him with the promise to Riley that he would return to visit, and he already has!

Note: See June 22nd post for a pic of the caterpillar before. Also, Eric Carle's Very Hungry Caterpillar says about 2 weeks for a cocoon to become a butterfly, I'd say a week and a half:)

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Pool Party. Nuf said. Well, ok, I will add, pool party for 6 kids in a kiddie pool with the sprinkler running. Sorry this post is late, I was hoping to get photos downloaded to go with it, but it didn't happen:) Stay tuned. I'm a little behind.

Turtle Races

Every Wednesday in Nisswa they have Turtle Races, this is the second year we have participated and Adrienne's first time...and she won second place out of 243 racers! It was a lot of fun to watch her win and her cousins were excited for her too. Zack's turtle (pictured) didn't move, Rileys did ok, but Adie got to race in 3 races to come in second overall And she got a green ribbon too. FUN DAY!

Finished Letters

Here are the finished letters for both kids' rooms. THANKS JESS! They turned out great:)

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Hands down, this week I am thankful that Josh has a new job offer and starts at Ameriprise on July 19th. He didn't lose his job, this was a change because of a very bad work environment and has been a long time in the works. He is a little nervous about leaving the place he has worked for the past 10 years, but he is super excited for the new challenge and looks forward to working "normal" hours and sleeping in past 5 a.m.!