We started out with the Halloween Parade!  Carter was the coach of the Philadelphia Eagles this year (he forgot his clipboard of plays but we made it back with it in time!) and Emma was matching babies with Meg.  Love that after all of these years I finally figured out to sit with all…

Just folded the load of swim towels and had to have a moment of mourning the pool days of summer 2015.  I so love summers with my kids and send them back to school reluctantly!   Lots of good memories this summer.   Lots of them with those towels.  

  We took a trip to maple ton to try a new berry farm this year – nowhere is quite like our MN berry farm, but we had a good time and picked plenty of berries for eating and freezing.           (Carter's berries always remind me of what Sal's bucket must have…

Love our tradition of mom adventure days.  It always takes me a while to adjust what I call them (last year they were Mom Wednesdays and I keep thinking Lego Movie style, "It's Mom Wednesday!  But still on a THURSDAY!")   It had been forever since we'd been to the zoo (we actually let our pass expire…

We started out the first Monday of summer with an Adams family cousins outing to the lake!  It was so fun to watch everyone join in to help Carter make his big hole and river down to the lake!  They would have stayed all day if we could.  :) It was a beautiful HOT day…

Wow, the year went by fast!  The last 7 did, actually… First day of elementary school — last day of elementary school!  Seriously, where has the time gone?! We had to get a picture of Emma with her cute teacher while they stacked desks and chairs (I remember doing that like it was yesterday.) Zach…

It was a Mankato Sunday, and Meg cried when Nate left till she fell asleep with me on the couch:   After a little nap, we went to Great-Grandma Woodward's to ask her some questions about her life (Zach recorded them and put them on family tree) and she gave the kids the leftover balloons…

Saturdays this spring were full of dividing and conquering (and usually meeting up at baseball since it was 6 hours long 🙂 After dropping off Emma for pre-game warmups, and picking up Meg from her princess party at Isa's (it was no small task to get her away from that!) we headed back to Emma's…

4th grade had a "Utah Day", where they had a rendezvous to trade the goods they had made at home over the last few weeks.  We were able to pull a spur-of-the-moment pioneer costume off thanks to a neighbor with a bonnet:      Emma had been working for weeks to prepare for the trading:…

Wow, it seems like every day in May is busy!  We started off this day with a field trip for Meg to the fire station with her preschool class: (don't you just love the outfit Meg chose this morning?  There was no talking her out of any part of it.) Got these texts from Zach…