Julie and Sophie

Yesterday I had a day off from work and spent it taking Sophie to the zoo to see one of her best buddies Julie and her four siblings.  She and Julie are the best of friends and her parents are teachers so she's not at Suzanne's for the summer and Sophie seems a little lost with out her little buddy.  So we planned for them to get together.   They had an absolute blast riding in the double jogger, the wagon, and checking out the animals as well as playing on the different playgrounds.  It was such a beautiful cooler day to be at the zoo.

ZOOMBEZI BAY

So Sunday we celebrated our sixth year of marriage a little different than we celebrated our wedding day, however once you have kids that seems to be the case.  However, Saturday night Grandma and Grandpa did keep Sophie overnight so we could venture off to a bed and breakfast, do some shopping and have a nice dinner.

We headed out to Zoombezi Bay about 11:30 and met Aunt Becky, Uncle Eric, Austin, & Aaron for a day of slides, wave pool, lazy river, and some splishing and splashing, we also did a picnic.

The bigger slides Austin did with Uncle Bob and Eric, however Sophie and Aaron were still young enough that they just enjoyed the kiddy area, jumping the waves in the wave pool seemed to be Aaron's bag and Sophie loved the lazy river riding on the raft with Daddy.

Aaron and Sophie also spent some time at Jungle Jack's Landing riding a few rides while we waited on Uncle Eric and Austin since the waterside lines were so long.

They enjoyed conducting the train...

Riding the tea cups...

and then we all enjoyed some chocolate ice cream..

Overall we spent about four hours and had a blast.  To say the least I think everyone was pooped and went to bed early at least in our house.

Summer Fun...

The last few weekends have been rather hot and we've spent them with family in the pool and visiting.

Here are daddy's brownies we baked for Father's Day

Here is the beer mug that Sophie painted for him

Here is the huge donut Daddy made her out of floam.

Father's Day weekend we went to Daddy's sister's house for the day on Saturday.

Aunt Becky and Uncle Eric set up the water park in their backyard.

The weekend before we spent time painting in the garage while Daddy finished removing the stain from the deck.. We went on a walk and found things in nature that we could paint with including our hands.

Then we spent the rest of the day in the pool in the backyard and having a picnic.

6 years

Happy 6th year Anniversary to my best friend and love of my life.   Thank you for six amazing years, lots of great memories, and even trying times.  We've been together through it all.  We are so blessed to have a beautiful almost three year old daughter, a place we can call home, jobs, and wonderful families who love and support us in life.  I am so thankful for all that you do for Sophie and I, you work hard, play hard, and love to keep things tidy.


Here's to many more happy, healthy years together.


Love Ya

Our Outtings

While we were in Roseau we took in all the sites both there and in Warroad where Aunt Lisa's parents grew up and where Aunt Lisa lived for a year in between Uncle Michael and her being done with college and going to Seminary.

Friday:
We went to Aunt Lisa's Church

Took at Tour of the Civic Center and spent some time at the library where Sophie played on the computer and drew on a dry erase board.  We also checked out some books and a couple of dvd's.

We played outside blowing bubbles for Scarlet, Gray, and Sophie to chase.


Then we took a tour at Polaris while Sophie went to the Dairy Queen with Aunt Lisa and Uncle Michael

We ate at the Brickhouse Restaurant for dinner.




Saturday:
We went to Warroad and up to the Lake in the Woods - we saw where Lisa's parents grew up, where her grandparents used to live, and the house where she lived with her grandparents just a few years ago.  We also played on the beach and at the park at the Lake in the Woods and had a nice lunch at the restaurant right there.

Later we went to the park at the school with Uncle Michael and over to see his church.

 Then we went to the Legend for Pizza.






Sunday:  We went to Aunt Lisa's church and Sophie went up for her children's sermon.  We went to Annie's log cabin and picked up some Minnesota souvenirs.

Later that evening we went to the drive-in for dinner.





Monday:  We went to the Memorial Day parade and assembly in the High School gym.

Later on in the afternoon we went to Deer Camp "where the men and their sons stay during the deer hunting season"  We road Rangers clear up to the Canadian boarder which is still on their land and then we roasted marshmallows for s'mores (note:  they add peanut butter to theirs...such a great idea).  

That evening we had fresh Walleye caught by Uncle Michael himself this past winter...it was super yummy.   Sophie also had one last evening of some play time with Uncle Michael.

Tuesday we headed back to the airport to fly home.   We had a great time!  Way up North.