Nature at it's best!

The kids wanted me to take a picture of this cool mushroom they found under our neighbor's tree. It was pretty big too! Neat!

Yeah Ryan!

Ryan had his check-up this morning at the dentist and Yeah! His teeth look good. he got a whole bag full of goodies. New toothbrush, floss, pen, sticker, etc... He is way pumped. So are we. *sigh*

What was lost has now been found!

During the month of July we traveled a lot and Aaron really didn't like it, so we got in the habit of giving him our watches to play with. Well he liked them so much he started wanting them while we were at home. Which we indulged of course. Well, my watch disappeared. Now Chris had given me a watch back in like 97, to wear at work so I wouldn't scratch up my good watch. Well I LOVED this watch. I think I replaced the band like 3 times and went through numberous batteries. And then it died. It lived a good life, but no matter what I did, it wouldn't recover.

Well it took me over a year to find another watch I liked just as much. It needed a wider leather band and be something that I could wear with the watch face down - I wear it on the inside of my wrist. This is because when I am carrying trays the watch digs into my hand, so I flip the watch around. Anyway... I found a replacement. A Fossil watch. Perfect, till it disappeared in July. Dang that Aaron.

Chris went through all the trash before it went to the curb, the kids went through all the toy baskets, I went through all the furniture. NO WATCH! ARGH! So I have been suffering and refusing to get another one in hopes one day it would show up. So imagine my surprise when I went to get my knitting for Meghan's scarf to find my watch sitting on top of the bag! And next to it the tell-tale NUK! Busted Aaron! HAHA!

But I am totally thrilled to have my watch back. Yeah!

The costumes have begun...

So I started sewing Halloween costumes yesterday. Here are what the kids will be this year.
Ryan - Frog, costume body is pretty much done already. Looks super cute!
Aaron - Monkey
Katie - Pop star Diva - Don't ask me how I am going to make that warm enough
Meghan - Hermione from Harry Potter. The orginal plan was to buy the costume. It came today and looks like ass! So I guess I will be making it. I have found a patch on Ebay and have upped the ante and have added knitting a scarf to the project list. And all in 6 weeks and 4 days.

And then there is Chris and I. I have no idea what I am making for us yet.

Yeah! Go Jen!!

August 31- Sept 1st in the cities.

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This is the slideshow for our visit to the MN State Fair and the Mall of America. We had loads of fun and so glad we got to go to the Fair.

What was the weather forcast for the day???? FAIR!

Slideshow from Aug 24-26th weekend in the cities

http://s202.photobucket.com/albums/aa49/Jena9286/?action=view&current=0a963e3d.pbw

This is a link to the slideshow I created from our weekend in the cities. We had stayed at the Waterpark hotel in Ostego and went to the Science Museum of MN in St. Paul, MN

Such a Handsome Boy!

Ryan had his first day of preschool today! He was very excited and made sure his backpack was packed and he was ready to go. He got a new shirt, jeans and brown shoes just for the first day. He had so much fun too. He made a fish and played in the gym and got an ice cream sandwich for a snack, because it was some girl's birthday. He can't wait to go back on Friday.