First week of school

Hello again family! Sunday seems to be the day that I have time to blog. Part of the reason is that I don't have church till 12:15!!!!! Isn't that just awful. But it means I can get stuff done in the morning. So, it's been an interesting week. I've considered working at Mcdonalds for the rest of my life basically every day. That or running away. I am really riding the struggle bus.  I feel so anxious and overwhelmed with all the things I have to do. I really need to get back into working out as it makes me a more well balanced person. Any whoo, In good news I'm in collegiate singers. That's my happy safe place. It just makes me feel so good to be in there. We had the retreat on friday and Satuday and we did an awesome hike. Here are some pictures:

 Soprano weirdness... haha!

 Isn't that view gorgeous? I wanted to stay forever.

Did you find me? Front right haha I mean my pants are fluorescent...

Anyways if I can just calm the heck down I think I might graduate! Otherwise I'm running away to Mexico to open a bike shop....

That all folks. 

I love you all and keep posting?

 I like to hear what is going on with you guys!

Gabe is Five!!!

We were lucky enough to get to have Gabe in 

Minnesota close enough to his birthday that 

we could have a little party here.

I can't believe he's five!!!

Gabe wanted his cake to have purple and orange and I don't

 even remember what all colors he asked for.

Mima was tired and found a really fun cake

at the store with all of the colors inside.

We all had Batman masks instead of party hats.

We had the hats in the cart and then saw the masks.

No contest!

I think the song may have been too loud.

We didn't even sing the traditional bad version.

Henry enjoyed the festivities as well

There! You can see the inside of the cake if you look close.

Cheesing with my boys.

And there's the cute mom, Emma.

And then came the presents.

Auntie Mandy pretty much stole the day with

 her fabulous gift of a marble run that you

 can build different every time you use it.

Cool!!

Happy birthday, Gabe Gabe!!

We love you!

Still Playing Catch Up

This is mostly going to be a photo dump of

 our time as a family this August.

I sure love to see all of your cute faces in one place.

This is our weenie roast at the cabin.

The mosquitoes were fierce!

It was delicious

Check out the cool spider web we found.

I totally took a picture of the giant spider too

but I forgot to put it here.

Ollie is so adorable!

Gabe was obsessed with finding ALL the tiny toads

I think he ended up with 5? 7?

And one was red.

Very cool

Then we headed up north with a stop at the Veteran's Memorial.

Gotta practice our power poses

Love this boy!!!

We went out on Park Point to picnic

 and let the little boys play for a while.

Henry and Pipa had a good time swinging.

The next stop was Canal Park

and the lift bridge.

Henry found a puddle and started jumping.

At first the older people around him were annoyed.

Then they noticed this tiny, adorable child

enjoying a puddle and were completely charmed.

Out on the pier.

Auntie Mia bought the boys some popcorn.

(And Mima got a slushie was that the best

 one I ever had. No really.)

Then we drove and drove looking for a

 good place to stop, hoping to make it to 

Black Beach before we ran out of time.

We finally just stopped along the shore to play.

We walked a long way out on a sandbar where the

 mouth of a river joined the lake.

It was really pretty and a fun adventure.

It was getting late and everyone was getting hungry

so we decided to build a fire and roast

the rest of the hotdogs and just eat what we had left.

We gathered a ton of driftwood and built a really

 beautiful fire.It was also warm, 

which was good, because the boys

 were wet and cold. 

I've decided I might like driftwood fires best of all.

They are just so pretty!

After everyone was fed and warm we

threw rocks for a while longer.

It is so magical at Lake Superior.

This cairn was at the parking lot where we were stopped.

Gabe thought it was a pretty good place to climb.

So, of course, so did Henry.

There were more family adventures to be had, 

but this concludes today's installment.

I love you all so much!

Love,

Mom