One of Carter's latest passions is paper airplane books… and then building every airplane in them.  A little bit crazy… a lot of paper… and a lot of fun.  

Meg ready to take on any weather at one of Carter's t-ball games Meg copying Emma's scripture reading (so cute, although Emma has a hard time understanding it is a form of flattery.  :) Not worth the fight to try to get her out of the 2-sizes-too-big dress shoes for bed.   Went to pick…

We headed up to Silver Lake with some other afternoon K friends on a beautiful fall morning!      We encountered all kinds of adventures… most notably a moose and her baby right on the trail!  We of course observed from quite a distance and turned the other direction (much to Carter's dismay – he…

Once again we found ourselves in a scramble to find a fall baseball team for Zach, and this time we ended up playing in the Avenues league.  This situation has the following great things going for it:   1- we are driving the opposite direction of traffic at 5pm.  So the 25 minutes it takes…

Nate and Zach play a crazy (non-sanctioned) living room ball game while Meg puts her animals to bed on the table… Emma makes a crazy face to go with her crazy hat for spirit week at school (which was actually Meg's hat that Meg really didn't want her to wear!) Carter and I were playing…

With zucchini, there is no happy medium.  Either you don't plant it, and you have none… or you do plant it, and you could eat nothing but zucchini from now until Christmas.  After eating it as our dinner vegetable for weeks on end and then shredding and freezing enough for 20 batches of zucchini muffins,…

Carter and I got to go for testing the Friday before he started school… and then (even though it was only 9:45am) we went to get ice cream at McD's.      Then the next Wednesday, it was time for the first big day!  Nate ended up having the day off, and Carter was super…

It was quite a surprise when Carter complained of a tooth that was hurting to find out it was very loose, and then not 5 minutes later, out it came!  I love the combined surprise/excitement/nervousness that comes with a first lost tooth.  So cute.  (and excuse the sandy fingers, we were at a very sandy park.…

And quite honestly, it's a bummer!  I am a firm believer that you should not be in school on August 21.  I miss the post-labor day starts of MN!  It is what it is, however, and we had a good time with the traditional back-to-school family fondue night. And yes, I realize that only 1/2…