March 2015 - Cabin Weekend with Friends

As you may remember me mentioning in years past, every so often, I get the chance to get together with a great bunch of friends from my college years and we even try to get away together on weekends and we head up to one of our friend's cabins! It's been awhile since we could all make it work, but this winter, we all found a weekend (and I had a quarterly weekend that I could take off, so it was perfect!) and we ventured to northern Wisconsin. Unfortunately, Michael was not able to get off of work, so I ventured with all 3 girls on a 6 hour road trip to the "Waterman Cabin".

 

 

While it sure isn't like it used to be at the cabin (I'll let you search through the archives and see previous posts about how it used to be), our cabin weekends now revolve around naptimes, and bedtimes and eating times and of course play times! Basically, the cabin weekend reflects our lives of all of our friends right now and revolves around kids! - though we did manage to get in an "adult" game or two and of course we always have great and memorable conversations: )

 

 All 4 families were able to make it (except Michael:( boo). And between the 4 families, we were entertained by 7 kids. My friends were AWESOME at helping me out and holding Charlye and taking care of the older girls being that I was flying solo. We even managed to get all the kids outside for a bit each day to enjoy the great outdoors!

 

 

And instead of all us adults getting out to go snowmobiling or engaging in an intense game of broom ball, we did a lot of pulling kids around in sleds (or driving them around as Scott did! They loved it!)

 

 

I'm so very grateful for these friends...Scott, Maggie, Suelynn, Aaron, and Scott and Betty (Unfortunately, I didn't get a picture of them!). And I love that our kiddos can play together and we make it a point to continue to get together and grow in our friendships.

 

 

...until we see each other again:)

Winter Fun 2015

Now that spring has sprung, I'm in the mood to post about winter. Go figure. We didn't have much snow this winter....and it was often very cold...but when we got the chance to go outside and enjoy the white wintery bliss, we took it! Here's some fun that we had this winter...

 

 

 

 

It was fun while it lasted, but I'm sure glad Spring has made an appearance:)

 

 

March 2014: The Weather...

It's possible that I haven't written in such a long time because we haven't been up to much...mostly, because of the dang weather here in Minnesota. Michael and I had a couple of retreats in early March too, so the girls got to spend some quality time with Gramma over the weekends while we were gone.

Anyway, this is the loonngggeessstttt winter that I can remember in a long time...meaning so cold for so long that we literally can't do anything! But finally...finally!! This past week, we had a glimpse of the spring that may grace us with its presence.  In less than one week, we went from this (bundling up...only being able to be outside for 5 min. or so at a time, if at all):

To Spring!!! I mean, like 50-57 degree weather! That's right...us Minnesotans went crazy. We broke out the flip-flops, I saw a LOT of people wearing shorts, and don't even think about putting on a jacket! No need for that. Not to mention, there was even one day when I drove home from work with the windows down! And let me tell you, we soaked up the outside time as much as we could during these 50 degree days!! Olivya couldn't get enough!! 

And for once, the snow was soft enough that we could make a snow ball and throw it!! (1st time all year that we could make a snowball)...

And we were all so excited to be outside that we just wanted to keep taking pictures, so I explained to Adelyn what a "photo-shoot" was, and taught her the basics of modeling (hahaha...like I know anything about that!), and boy oh boy, did she rock this photo-shoot. (Hilarious!! I was laughing hysterically as she was "posing")

...but then quickly got distracted by the water and her new rain boots and the realization that she could jump in the puddles.

Here's to spring (hopefully!!!)

Editer's Note: As I am finalizing this post a few days after I actually wrote it, we are sitting in a winter storm warning...10-12 inches of snow expected over the next 2 days. UGH!!!