We've had all sorts of adventures this summer so I am finally updating my blog. These are just a few fun pictures from the summer so far.
My nieces and Sophia in all my bridesmaid dresses from my brothers and sisters weddings. Gotta love those poofy sleeves!
Sophia's last day of preschool! She was so excited.
Ben and the kids at the lake for Father's Day.
Cheering for Uncle Tom who was running Grandma's Marathon.
Sophia and Caleb saying "Goodbye" to their friend Gwyneth. She's moving to Belfast with her mom and dad, our good friends Wes and Lesley, any day now. We will miss her dearly. Of course we have a plan in place for how to get her back to America when she's older so she and Caleb can fall in love and get married.
My parents at one of the stops along Seven Bridges Road in Duluth.
The boys going on a boat ride. Doesn't Caleb look just like Ben in this picture?? Except the hair color of course!
We went up to a camp called Luther Dell for the 4th of July. A bunch of people from church were there for a family camp weekend but we were just there for the day. Caleb pretty much jumped off this end of the dock all day, yelling for us to watch each time!
Our 6 year anniversary. We borrowed a couple of kayaks a friend of ours made and took them along the lake for an hour or two. It was absolutely perfect weather and tons of fun!
All dressed up at Enger Tower for a wedding rehearsal Ben was doing.
This was before the wedding. Aren't they cute?
All the 3 to 5 year-olds (plus Caleb) at a day camp we did at church last week. They all got to have a turn sitting in the driver's seat. Caleb and Sophia couldn't stop talking about it.
Sophia took this one. She's our photographer in training.
Caleb and his new leash...er....harness. We bought this before we left town yesterday because he's just wild enough to run to the edge of a cliff and then decide to jump off! It's very cute, with a little monkey on the back, and he did really well with it. And no, we didn't ever yank on it to make him go where we wanted. It just meant that we had to actually run with him everywhere. You can see the tail hanging off the monkey; that's the strap we hang on to.
See? He really liked it!
Our little model, posing for the picture.
For some reason Sophia decided she didn't want to be in the picture of the whole family so she's hiding in Ben's arms.
Mmmm...Mom's Camelbak. For some reason that water seems to taste better to her than the water in her own water bottle.
Caleb the explorer.
There's the monkey on his back.
Searching for agates...or pretty much any rock they like.
