Our trip to Minnie

We went to Minnesota for a long weekend to see my Dad and Lucy and to visit some friends.  Had such a great time.. there is never enough time! As usual we had amazing meals/desserts by Lucy, and great company.

Found a park by Grandma's to burn off some energy!

Getting ready to swim at Grandma and Grandpa Divine's pool.  Kaylee and Anthony Foster came to visit for the afternoon and Jake Haaz.

Mallory Haaz and my sis Mollie hangin' by the pool.

Anthony was too cold to swim so he hung with us in the sun and played games and ate potato chips.

Playing choo-choos with Charlie on the deck.

We had a birthday party (a little late) for Charlie.. he was in heaven.

New baseball glove and ball.

DUCK!!!



Lauren and Grandma get a little snuggle in!  Notice she is wearing a sweater.. it was the end of July.. and if felt like October... crazy!

Summer Time Fun... 2013!!!

Underwater camera catches Elise's big smile

BBQ with Neighbors... awesome night!

A little dinner before the Drive-In Movie.. opening night for Despicable Me 2!! With Nathan and Jayden Davis.

Sparklers at the BBQ (Nathan, Lauren and Elise)

A little ice-cream at Vandeez with our buddy Natalie.  (Haley, our awesome nanny took the girls.. wish I could have gone.. yummy!)

This is how Dudley chews his bone most of the time.. on his back.. he is so cute!

Elise singing at VBS

Claire and Lauren making rockets at VBS.

More ice-cream at VanDeez

Despicable Me 2

Lauren and Lauren Wood.. dinner before the movie..

Color Me Gorgeous!!

We headed out early this morning for The Color Run and it was quickly decided that this is going to be a new tradition... but we are going as a theme next time.. TuTus...knee highs.. all kinds of fun!!

Jes and Natalie Freundl

Before the fun begins.. all clean and boring..

Best of Friends!



Haley and the girls...we were so glad she joined us!

 

The stage with the "warm-up" crew.. we warmed up to Zumba... I am terrible but it was really fun to let loose and be silly with the girls.. Elise thought I was weird for shakin' it!

All tatted up!

This was more than half-way back and look how far back it goes... there were TONS of people.  Our wave of runner/walkers hadn't even started when the first heat was finishing!

We had to open a few powder packs early so we could have fun.  We were supposed to have them for the party at the end.

My friend Donna Jones and her friend Brie joined us for the morning!

The yellow "coloring" station

Well this shouldn't be big surprise to anyone who knows Elise.. but we walked.. she did jog a little bit.. but mostly we walked... and complained... and walked.  I think I heard "my legs are killing me", "my feet are killing me", "can't we just sit on the grass and rest for a MINUTE"... and "I am NOT running anymore, I am tired".  She did walk the whole thing with no rest.. she didn't always like it but we did it and we RAN across the finish line.

Chalk Angels

Color Us Gorgeous!

 

I could hardly see out of my glasses.. I tried to put them in my pocket and the color stations but it only worked a little..

I realized that I caught someone who totally biffed it on the black top... oops

Lauren was pooped so Haley gave her a piggy back ride most of the way back to the car.

Funny story... this morning Haley asked my if I wanted to bring some towels.. I looked at her oddly.. "I wasn't planning on it"  thinking she thought we were going to be all sweaty... well.. at least she was thinking because we were SOOOO chalky and it would have been all over my car..

What a FUN morning!!  We will be back next year with a much better costume!