Adult Halloween Fun!

 

 

A couple weekends ago we ran our first Monster Dash!  It's a 5K in Minneapolis where you dress up in your Halloween costume and then run.  It was insanely fun!  A little crowded at times, but so worth it!  We want to shoot for the 10K next year, but a little training would be involved for sure!

 

Enjoyed a beer afterward...hey it's 5 o'clock somewhere!

 

Afterward we went to a nice little sushi bar and had some snacks and drinks!  That was probably my favorite place we ate the whole weekend!  I love their sushi!





We decided to hit up a local haunted house that night to round off our Halloween themed weekend!  Trail of Terror is what they call it.  It was a very fun time!  I almost peed my pants a few times too!

 

Can't wait till next year!!!  Yay!

Busy, Fun, and New Opportunities!

Ok so I have alot to say.  Since I have not posted in weeks I guess that happens.  Life has a way of getting busy, throwing a curve ball, and it all moves on!

A couple weeks ago I went to the Pumpkin Patch with Lukas's kindergarten class.  We had so much fun!  Lukas surprised me with how outgoing he is around his peers.  He was engaged, asked questions, talked to everyone, nice to everyone, and volunteered for things!  My little guy just blew me away!  I was extremely pleased seeing him interact with everyone so nicely!

 

All in all he had a great time!  Afterward I went to school with him and ate lunch!

 

 

So, the beginning of October I put my resume into a new place for a new job.  Well they called me that same week and asked me to come in for an interview.  I really didn't think too much of it and just thought that this would be good practice for when I get really serious about finding a job.  A half hour after I left the interview they called and offered me the job!  I can honestly say I was very shocked.  I had really not expected to get the job, but only because it was a easier version of what I do for my current company.  However, I took the job and it will be a great opportunity for our family financially and we can now maybe get a house we will all fit in a little better!  We celebrated that night with a little Perkins for our family!  (Lukas and Megan's favorite restaurant!)

Daddy has a monkey on his back!

 



So we are now gearing up for a very busy end of 2013 and an exciting 2014! 

 

I will be very busy with finishing projects at my current job and getting ready for my new job, so the blog posts will be a little more sporadic.  I hope to keep blogging after I get all settled in and get a laptop or computer to use at home!  My last day at my current job is November 6th and start right away at my new position on the 7th!  Yikes...it will all be good!

Our 1st Family Vacation!

 

We decided the middle of September to take our family up to our friends cabin for our first family vacation!  We invited my Mom to come with and relax aswell.  Here's a little bit of how our 1st family vacation kind of dudded out.  (Only because of weather, and vehicle problems...I must say the kids were awesome, and it was nice getting to spend time up away at the cabin!)

Now first let me start by saying our children were fantastic!  The whole vacation and both drives we had no problems with them!  I thank god everyday that they were so well behaved with the other stuff we were dealing with! 

We drove up on a Wednesday night and didn't arrive until late!  About 12:30am or so.  The kids were hyper awake by that point.  We fed them a snack and got them all wound down and off to bed by 1-1:30am.  My Mom took the loft up above the garage so she could have some nice quiet time while we were up there.  Chris and I stayed up watching and movie and just finally relaxing!  That night went well...I must say!

Woke up Thursday and it was raining.  Got all the stuff done we wanted to (groceries, boat charged) and it was raining on and off all day.  Well finally just before supper we decided the weather looked good so we should try to get out on the boat.  Needless to say...we never got out on the boat.  We did get everything working, but we ran into supper time and then bath time...so we never got back out there.

 

Kids did get to play on the boat while we messed around trying to get the motor going!  Then a big whirlpool bath!

 

Friday morning we woke up and it was super chilly!  It rained on and off again, but we decided to fair Itasca State Park anyway.  We would just dress warm!

 

Well while on our way to Itasca we noticed the back tire on my Mom's vehicle was making a grinding noise.  At first we thought...maybe it's the road.  Then it happend again on a different road.  So while we did get to make it to the headwaters of the mississippi we didn't stay at Itasca to finish our nature walk/drive.  We turned around and took the car into a local business to take a look.  They said it was the bering and that they could fix it the next day.  Sounded good to us.  We stopped got some pizza and headed back to the cabin for a movie, fish a little, rest, then supper, and a fire.

 



We decided that night that we would just take off Saturday after the car was fixed.  Things weren't really going our way and we thought it would be nice to get home around supper time and then have all day Sunday to chill and have to ourselves. 

 

So Saturday we got up had breakfast and my husband and Lukas went off to get the car fixed.  It seemed like forever.  My Mom and I got the cabin all cleaned up and everything packed so we could take off when they got back.  I am going to add that this is the nicest day we had up there too!  It was gorgeous out!  Anyway around 11:30am we got a call from Chris that the axle was bad too and that it wouldn't be fixed this weekend.  So we went on a wild goose chase trying to find a rental car.  It looked like we weren't leaving Saturday, and maybe not even Sunday.  Possibly Monday.  However, we found a rental company open until 3pm that day and we did rent a cross over vehicle to fit us all in and get us home.  We left Saturday afternoon and got home later Saturday night. 

 

The car is still up there and it should be fixed soon or at least this week and then my Mom or Chris and I will be heading up there to get it. 

 

All in all...we got to spend time together up north and do some relaxing so the trip was a success in that effect.  Some of the things that got us down (firewood at first, the boat, the weather, grill out of propane (no car to get more), my Mom's vehicle), well we learned that things don't always go as you plan.  However, things could have been much worse.  I am thankful we got to get away and have some time with our family up north.  I did my best to make some great food, drinks, and lots of fun walks with my kiddos!  If you ask Lukas about our trip up north he gets excited and he loved every minute of it.  I am going to remember our vacation through his eyes!  It's so much more fun that way!

 



(He caught around 10 sunnies that day...he was thrilled!)

 

 

Megan's first vacation ever...she had fun too!  Carrying around her "pack pack" (backpack)!





Many things...Lucy Visit, Lukas Totally Potty Trained, and Our First Family Vacation!

The next posts will be about my niece Lucy's all day visit with us, Lukas finally mastering not peeing at night, and our first family vacation!

Can't believe how busy this month as been!  Yikes!  Here we are now into Fall!

Memorial Weekend Fun- Walks, Weddings, Picnics, and Parks!

 

We took a walk with the kiddos at our favorite place, our local Nature Center!  Went to a pretty backyard wedding, and then had a picnic with our kids at the park!  Wonderful weekend full of hot, then not so hot, and cold weather! 

Our Friday...

 

Our Saturday evening..

 

(What a beautiful backyard wedding!)

 

Then our picnic...from Labor day.  We went to a local park and froze...OK that might be a little over dramatic, but it was so cold and windy!  We did have fun though!  Lukas liked to fly out the "robot slide" as he called it.

 

Good bye summer we will miss you!  It's like 80 some degrees today though so...it very much still feels like summer here!  Maybe next year we can go do some camping, since this summer got so busy we never got any in!

 

 

 

Good bye Summer 2013

 

I feel like this summer was weird, fast, and of course not long enough. 

It was weird because the first half of summer was chilly with temps in the upper 60s.  Then middle of summer to second to last week in July hot.  Last week of July to middle of August was chilly.  Temps in lower 70s.  Then for the last part it's been hot with heat indexes.  What a weird summer!

Summer feels like it goes fast anyway, but it felt like we had plans or something going on every single weekend.  That is no fault but our own...I ran in 5 5K runs, we took Lukas up North, visited the zoo, reptile center, and then hit the fair.  Lots of walks and playing and of course the nature center.

I wish summer was another month longer.  I can't believe Lukas goes off to kindergarten next week, and we start a whole new year of volleyball soon.  This year I would like to get Lukas into Karate, and Megan into dance.  Man...time goes by too fast. 

It's funny when you are younger it feels like time just crawls so slowly.  I can see that in Lukas too.  When we tell him something is gonna happen in a couple days, or a week or so he gets so mad and he tells us "that feels like forever."  As you grow up time moves a little faster, but then you have kids and time feels like it's just whizzing by.  It's cool watching your children grow, learn, and turn into such neat and unique little people, but it defiantly makes you miss their littleness that keeps slipping away daily.  Here is a little slide show I put together to remember our Summer 2013! 

Fun with Daddy!

Mommy was away with friends this last weekend for our annual girls weekend and I had a blast!  The kids got to hang with Daddy all weekend!  Friday I think they just chilled out after work and daycare.  Saturday he took the kiddos to the nature center, then grilled out, and had a fire, and Sunday they got to swim!  Here are some pictures he sent me while I was away!

 

 

Chilling out before bedtime!

 

Lukas and Daddy had a fire after Megan went to bed.  :)

 

 

 



I received this picture while I was driving home, the kiddos playing in the pool!

 

All in all I had a great trip and caught up with friends I haven't seen in a very long time!  I am glad that my family got to enjoy each other and spend time together!  Thanks to my husband for being such a fun and hands on father!  :)  We love you!

Reptile and Amphibian Zoo

For Father's Day we packed the kids up went out for lunch and then hit the Reptile and Amphibian Zoo a couple towns over.  The place was really cool!  We started with just getting to go around the building and see all the animals in their tanks.  Then they had a show and talked about some of their animals at the zoo.  Then they had feedings that you could watch.  I didn't really watch the feedings, but my husband was into that part!

 

Megan would lean up to all the tanks whether they be frogs, turtles, snakes, whatever and say "awe cute!"



 

The kids were really into what they were seeing, Lukas had lots of questions!

 

 

Cool place to go and really enjoyed it!