Friends of the Future

We went to a BBQ at our friend Jim and Erica's place this weekend and finally got to meet Q....or Quinlan if you prefer...He was born two days before my sister's baby Brynn in December and it has taken us a while to get our schedules worked out to meet the little guy. And just for fun, Erica is due in September which makes her 26 weeks. Baby Center's web site always tells you how big your "inside baby" is by comparing to a vegetable or a fruit of some kind. Jim thought Erica was 25 weeks which would have been Rutebegga so we bought one to take a picture of the "three boys" (Q - 5 months, Rowan - 3.5 months and Gabe - due September)...as it turns out we should have bought a hot house cucumber:)

Photos from Girls Weekend

I have access to my pictures so here's a photo recap of the weekend at Lost Lake Lodge.

NOTE: I keep trying to load more pictures, but it keeps giving me an error message. I will try to post more pictures of Girls Weekend later, but this is a start.

Random Cute

I fhave downlaod access to my pics again, so lookout! I have some catching up to do:)

Happy Birthday Zacky T!

Happy Birthday to our nephew Zacky! He turns a big 4 years old today!!!

TIGF -Delayed

I know this is a day late and a dollar short, but I didn't do one last week because I was out of town and that's part of my thankful thought of the day. I am thankful that we had a great weekend away with my mom and sisters and that my mom has such a great group of friends that let us tag along for the weekend. I am also thankful that our house is officially on the market and that we have a set of circumstances that allows me to stress less about keeping up the house with a 3-year-old and a 3-month-old...and last, I'm thankful the 3-month-old slept 6 hours last night so I got some sleep before heading to a dumb work meeting at 8 a.m. on a holiday weekend. Ugh. Retail:) Off to Caribou:)

Girls Weekend!

This weekend, Mom, Katie, Meg and I went to Lost Lake Lodge in Nisswa for some quality non-kid bonding time. LLL has a invite only girlfriend weekend and since my mom's girlfriend owns the place, we got an invite and boy am I glad we did! I wish I had pictures to post of this weekend, but Katie needs to e-mail me the pics she took because I still can't download mine yet. I will post soon though!

Anyway, the whole weekend was a busy fun time. We had a wine scavenger hunt ( that involved Katie and I in a kayak in search of a floating wine bottle clue, and Meg going for a hike in flip-flops to recover a clue in the woods)and a medallion hunt (we found the 3rd medallion hidden)as well as some VERY quality shopping time in Nisswa. The food is fantastic there and we also had a wine tasting and a wine pairings lunch. I drank more wine this weekend than I think I have collectively ever before. We didn't even touch the bottle of wine we got for the scavenger hunt or the stuff we brought up there ourselves or I would have been totally loopy...instead of just a little loopy;)

I think we sufficiently stimulated the Brainerd Area economy while we were up there, but just in case, we're going back in 3 weeks with the boys and the kids for more shopping and fishing for our annual family vacation.

Rowan's Bath Time

Riley has been a big help with Rowan's bath time since the first bath he had at home. Gotta love it!