Labor Day Weekend

Wow - what a busy weekend! On Friday we had 2 surprise visitors. My cousin Jodi stopped by for a bit, and my sister stopped by to show off her sparkly new diamond, and give me an update on wedding plans. Then on Saturday we meet up with Chad, Christy, Alex, and Becca and headed over to the MN State Fair. The kids liked the little farm hands exhibit, and everyone liked the Miracle of Birth center because they were able to pet baby animals. Alex and Andrew liked the baby animals, but really liked that one of the cows decided to go #2 while they were standing by it....if you ask Andrew about the fair - he'll tell you all about it. Once we all made it back to our house, we had only been home for about a 1/2 hour when we lost power! Just a little bit of excitement.....we kept hoping for the power to come back on, but finally gave in and took the kids to McDonald's. After we had everyone in the vehicles, ready to go, the power came back on (go figure). Since we were already packed up the kids lucked out, and got Mickey D's. We were all impressed by the uneventful meal we had (hey you never know what you are going to get with 4 kids!).

The girls hanging out

The girls hanging out with the dad's enjoying the bonfire (the boys were too busy playing in the sandbox to join us)

The Ihrke's left on Sunday morning, and my parents (Grandma & Grandpa Bongers) came up Sunday afternoon. The kids had fun playing with them, and we went out for pizza that night. Andrew ate 4 or 5 pieces of cheese bread plus some pizza - I think he's growing again because we can't seem to fill him up! After pizza we took the kids to the park, and Grandpa and Grandma had fun chasing them around the playground for a while.

On Labor day Bruce and the kids washed the boat in the morning, then he waxed it. Later while I got lunch ready Bruce and the kids washed the Tahoe. The kids were just a little wet, but you could tell they had fun. Now we're set for our 2nd up north vacation. We leave Wednesday for Two Inlets. It should be fun.

We also went to the Stride Rite store and bought Jenna her 1st pair of sneakers (Andrew also got a new pair). Both kids did awesome at the shoe store. Jenna seems to have a love of shoes already.....the gal would put a pair of shoes on her feet, she'd check them out, stand up and walk past a mirror to look at herself - it was too cute! We went with a pair of shoes that ties for Andrew, so hopefully we won't drive ourselves crazy tying his shoes for him. He really likes his shoes and claims that he can run extra fast in them. Afterwards we stopped off at Nelson's in Stillwater for ice cream.

That's it for us...have a good week. I'll update the blog after we get back from the lake :)