Busy Fun Weekend

We were crazy busy this weekend, but fun busy. Friday night we went to Dave and Busters in Maple Grove. We met Jeff's coworker Marie and her family. After a good dinner Ian and Kaleb made off with some good prizes they got with there video game ticket winnings.Saturday we went up to Jeff's parents lake place. There was a ton of work to be done to get the place ready for summer. Jeff and his dad worked on getting the weeds off the shore and other jobs along the shore line. Ian swept the million pineneedles and other foliage from off the many steps, and I got all the outdoor furniture cleaned up. Sunday we invited our neighbors up for a lake day. (We do a neighborhood dinner every other months, and take turns hosting amongst a few families. We decided to host ours at the lake this time around.) We had great weather! I've never seen kids want to fish more than swim, but this group did. Rowan spent most of the day snoozing inside, only joined the party for a little while, but didn't seem to care too much about it all!

Kaleb and Ian with their prizes

Enjoying summer grilling

Double Tubing

Wipe out! I love the feature on my camera that lets me take a series of fast pictures so I can get shots like this...That's Ian dismounting his tube!

I love this one of Ian and Drew fishing!

Trace Adkins

This weekend Jeff and Ian went boy scout camping. Rowan and I headed to Walker Friday night. On Saturday we did some visiting (see pics in previous post), then Rowan hung out with Grandma while I went out to Moondance with Melanie and Amy. I am not generally a fan of country music, but when I found out Trace Adkins was headlining on Saturday, I decided to go. I became a fan of his when he appeared on the Apprentice this winter. We got there in time for Sawyer Brown, and I knew more songs by them than I thought. Trace Adkin's performance was the best, though, I managed to get almost to the front.

Sawyer Brown

(I knew more of their songs than I thought. If you want to hear my uncle sing their popular song, Six Days on the Road, click here and select six days on the road.

Me, Amy and Mel

The Crowd

Trace Adkins

Weekend Fun

We had a fun but busy weekend. Saturday was spent with friends. There were several people we hadn't seen for awhile, some for MONTHS, so Jeff and I had a little get together at our house. We had lunch with John and Laura, Jay and Beth and the boys, and Chris and Katie and their kids. Here is a great pic I borrowed from John (thanks, John) of the crew. Ian and Jacob are missing because they were too busy playing Wii.

PJ and Sandi couldn't make it for lunch, but they came over later and hung out with us for dinner. We spent the entire day on our deck! It felt like summer, finally!!! Here are our boys with their boys...

On Sunday we had a great time at the science museum to see the STAR WARS exhibit and watch the Omnimax special effects movie. Here are some pictures (Ian took a few of these, he is into photography now:

Wisconsin Dells!

Ian, Rowan and I spent two fun nights in Wisconsin Dells this week. We met my good friend/college roommate, Toni and her almost 2 year old daughter, Tia and the Polynesian Hotel.It was a lot of fun, despite the unpredictable weather! At first I wasn't sure if we would be able to go because of threats of storms and tornados. We got up early in the morning and got on the road Wednesday, and managed to beat the bad weather. Ian got a little time in the outdoor water park when we arrived, but not much! The rain started and we were forced inside. Luckily, the indoor park was a nice one also. There were flash flood and tornado warnings all over the state. Toni and I finally had to turn off

the weather radio I brought because it kept buzzing on, over and over, the whole time we were in the room. Due to all the flooding parts of 94 were closed today, but not from the Dells to the Twin Cities, so I was able to make it out. Toni was not so lucky and was going to have to take other roads back to her house near Lake Geneva.

We had a good time, though, and it was fun to spend time with friends.

We went to look at what used to be Lake Delton. I'm sure you saw this on the news, the lake drained and is no longer there. It is a very strange sight. In this picture I took you can see the big mud field that used to be the lake, and what is left of the house they showed washing away on the news.

Rowan, Ian and Tia enjoying vacation: