TGIF-Nisswa!

Here's my "Artsy" pictures of Nisswa. I am SO thankful for our annual family trip. It is such an amazing time!

Beach Balls

Auntie Meg bought some Beach Balls for the kids to play with at the lake. She bought a giant Beach Ball that made for an awesome game of soccer with the Uncles.

Lily's New Trick

Lily learned a new trick this week. Only problem is, she doesn't know how to get down:)

Green Heron

Not to be outdone by the Eagle (and actually we saw this guy first...) This is a Green Heron (by my best Bird Nerd guess anyway.) He was in the tree out in front of the house. Pretty cool looking bird too! Probably makes my Top 5 favorite birds. Eagle and Blue Heron being #1 and #2 respectively. Sorry the photos are dark. It was dusk when he paid a visit. But if you click on the photos you can see them a little better.

And in Other News...

 Almost....

 Waiting her turn...

 Ready position...

 After the catch...

 Look at that concentration!

And now that life is back to "normal" around here...we started Fall T-Ball last night and Riley is now on the BLUE team. No more orange! YEAH! She doesn't know a single kid playing this time where in the summer there were some pre-school kids she knew, but she still likes it and she caught every ball they threw pop-fly to her last night! Pretty fun to see her progress...

Dragon Flies

Dragon flies of every color visited us all week. The kids loved that...and some of us grown-ups did too:)

Bobber Hunt!

We found that Pequot Lakes, home of "the bobber in the sky" has a Bobber Hunt and Bobber Bowling on Thursdays so we headed there to check it out. The prizes were pretty good if you were there early! Rowan won a new pair of crocs (not real Crocs, but still great!) Riley won a fancy pen that she loves. Zack, Kiley  and Adie all won $5 at the ice cream shop for the hunt. The Bartch crew then headed off for the zoo while the rest of us stayed for Bowling. Adie and Riley "tied" and got an insulated gift lunch-bag full of great stuff. They spilt their winnings, including at stuffed animal, pencil, crayons, mug, beads, can of lemonade, another $5 at the ice cream shop and a DQ coupon, and I got the bag;)

Note: I meant to post this after the Turtle Race post, but I guess you get a preview...Turtle Race post to come later...