Laura returned home safe and sound tonight.  Andy and I were really happy to see her and help us return to a civilized life.
Since my last post Andy and I went camping in the back yard including a camp fire and a night in a tent.  We also did a little yard work that caught [...]

For the 2nd time in 2 days Andy and I headed to the pool…thank God it was open or Andy would have had trust issues for the rest of his life!
Andy jumped of the side, splashed dad, and went down the slide for almost 2 hours.  It was a fantastic time!
As Andy rode down the slide [...]

This morning the GopherOne guy was out and marked the yard for utilities.  Time for some digging!

This morning we all got up before the sun was above the horizon to see Laura off for a week.
She packed up her sleeping bag, pillow, walking shoes, clothes and headed off to the annual 4th grade week long field trip to Wolf Ridge (just north of Duluth, MN).
Before she left she made sure Andy [...]

We’ve all been under the same roof this past week.

We’ve easily fallen back into the routine.

That is until these two decided they had had enough family time and instead took off on an impromptu fishing trip.  Pete and Andrew decided at the last minute to head up a little early to have a sleepover with [...]

We were able to spend some time with this little one this weekend.  Andrew is smitten.

We’ve spent much of our weekend cleaning and doing a few projects at home.  Last weekend we had a landscape designer come to our house to give us ideas of what we could do around the house.  The ideas were perfect, but now it is up to us to execute the plan.  After a trip [...]