Aunt Britt visited for a week! We had an awesome time together. The kids and Aunt Britt shared lots of bonding time. We miss her already!

Camping and playing hard at Big Stone Lake.

Our maiden camping and boating run of the year. We were so excited to get the boat out we hit the water before it was finished! Joy lays down everytime we go cruising with the boat...puts her to sleep.

Spring is here! Finally. We went fishing on evening on the Big Sioux had a great family evening out.

We visited St. Paul and the Science Mueseum. We were able to meet Nanna and Papa there. The boys loved staying at the hotel, the mueseum and the Capital building.

Back from Jamaica...can't wait to return! We had an absolute blast the weather, water and sun were just what we needed. The food, service and people there were wonderful. We were really missing the kids on the last day and were very glad to see them but it was tough to come back to cold and snow.

Cold War reminents? I found these two items literally in the middle of nowwhere in northwestern South Dakota. The rock pile and center of the nation sign were not far away. Though an unsuccessfull hunting trip...for whitetail, which is what my tags were, I did find a good place for antelope someday.

Love moments like these...

The sun was just comming up here...the dogs have been having a banner year getting out running and exploring.

Trista made all the costumes this year for our theme...give you one guess. Joy can't be seen that well but she was a flying monkey! We did a trunk or treat at our church. We won (Trista won) best costumes!

The kids wanted to bring their fire helmets to the fire station last time they visited, then Sam tried on the real thing.

Did you know that Blue Mound State Park has a 1200' line of rocks that line up with the sunrise and sunset in the spring and fall placed there long before whites came to the area? We would have loved to see it...the kids had different plans this trip. Sam insisted that we go to Papa's house to go camping, Joy was hungry and Gus was feeling lazy...win some, loose some...

We visited Blue Mound State Park by Luverne MN today...we sincerely hope that the boys are not playing in poison ivy...leaves of three let them be, well they had three shiny leaves growing in the crevise of some pallisades...we'll know tommorow morning!

Sammy on a rainy day...one of the few times he requested a picture.

Gus had his first day of school last Thursday. He was very excited, his favorite thing about school was the school bus...we are documenting this now so that we can show him how cool the school bus is when he is 16! Sammy is in the background, Trista said that before Gus left to get on the bus he was giving long hugs all around, when he left Sammy siged and said; "Gus is my best friend." Talk about bringing a tear to your eye.

Sammy is 37" tall and officially tall enough to ride the go-carts...what a blast we had. The boys steered through the corners like they were born behind the wheel and neither Mom nor Dad let off the gas until it was time to stop.

Gus started soccer this month, so far its been alot of fun. I can't describe how cute it is to see 10 five year olds running around kicking the ball.