"Abandon hope, all ye who live here in Minnesota. Anyone who was hoping that the warm weather of the past few days would somehow stay was dreaming…." Bummer.  We have had some beautiful 70* days this week – and since I read that, I am happier than ever that I let the laundry sit and…

Beware… this is a long story.  But since it has been our most dramatic injury to date (thank goodness!), and since this is our family record – here it is.  We were up in St. Paul at the temple on a lovely Saturday.  Nate went first, and I took the kids to a fun park…

I guess the warm weather got to the pumpkins quickly this year… and they were "oldy moldy" within a few days of carving.  Emma had been having me light hers several times a day so she could sing "happy birthday" to the pumpkin and blow out the candle.  Here she is after the last singing,…

We had 65* weather today for Halloween – cooled down a little tonight but still it was the nicest weather for a ballerina I've seen in years!  Here are a few pictures of our little costumed bunch!  Happy sugar high!

One post wouldn't be enough for something so life-consuming, right?  I actually even really enjoyed the world series – and we all enjoyed the second half of game 5.  Like I read in one article about it, since it was a delayed game that started in the 6th inning, kids got to see a world…

Here he is, our big boy in a big booster seat.  Our cereal man isn't such a cereal fan, but he does seem to like sweet potatoes…  He looks cute in his chair, anyways!  I can't believe how fast he is growing up!

Baseball!  And of course the World Series.  (Which has always confused me because it's only American teams that play in it…???)   It has been fun having the Phillies in it – we really grew to love Philly sports when we were there!  But for some reason Zach has been taken with Evan Longoria and…

After Nate and I finished cleaning up dinner  we went downstairs to see what Zach had been up to – and we found this.   Which wouldn't have been so unusual except for that big open space on the left of the photo… and then we found this.  And this.  I was laughing so hard I…

As I was getting Carter in his jammies tonight and he was giving me big belly laughs I thought, "I can't believe I have ever let a day go by without making him laugh."   And the same goes for my other kids.  I think sometimes in "survival mode" I just forget… so I'm promising…

Emma certainly didn't want the rain to go away! She was so excited to have rain without thunder and lightning, and to get some good use out of her rain boots and umbrella. After walking Zach to the bus in the rain (without an umbrella for any of the rest of us) Carter and I…