Lake Weekend

We had a lovely time at the lake this past weekend! Our friends, the Knudsons, are always such generous hosts, and this time was no different!

After the rain finally gave up Saturday evening, those crazy girls actually went tubing in the barely 60 degree weather!  Followed by fishing off the dock (complete with Hadley falling in, fully clothed, just like last year at their cabin; hehe).  

As you can see, we have a lot in common with this family of three girls!

The sun was shining Sunday morning, and even Bryndel gave tubing a try!  She LOVED it :)

Thanks for the wonderful weekend at your lake, Knudson Family! 

School's Out!

Despite a little bit of intermittent rain, the girls enjoyed another fun filled end of the school year picnic! Piper pictured above with Casey, and below with

 Emilia

Sylvia

 Jane

And her 1st grade teacher, Mrs. Steinke

Hadley with Sydney & Rebecca

And her 3rd grade teacher, Mrs. Galewski.

An annual school picnic tradition!

I think the littlest sister is just as excited that school is out, so she can have her best buddies at home! Praise God for another great school year (and thank God for summer!).

Sweaty Leader

We had a great Memorial Weekend just the 5 of us! Little hiking, fishing, gardening, and we even got to have Aunt Bev here for a couple nights!

We found a beautiful new place to hike, and somehow Bryndel ended up in the front pretty early on in our hike.  So, Kyle made sure to thank her for being the leader.  Her response, "A sweaty one!"  And, the Sweaty Leader was born.

We spent an afternoon at our friend's beautiful piece of property trying to catch a few fish.

Fish were caught, but not without a little adventure mixed in...  Kyle's first job on the boat was the capture the little mouse that was running circles around our feet! After that it was the usual tangle of kid fishing poles. Two lovely bullheads were caught, thankfully!  And then the motor died when we were the at the far end of the lake. Who knew I could be such a great rower, ha!  The girls loved every minute of it though, as evidenced by their wide grins.  I think they are gamers.

We spent a beautiful morning at the Memorial Day parade, while being ever so thankful for being a part of this great country.  Now, its on to summer!!

Summer Weather

We've been busy making the most of this beautiful weather! All three girls got out (individually) turkey hunting with Kyle, and LOVED it. Pretty special.

Hadley used her time in the hunting blind to catch up on a little handwriting homework.

And Bryndel was in the blind no more than 15 minutes, and they'd gotten a turkey! She prayed on Sunday night, "God thanks for Daddy taking us guys hunting."

Turned the sprinklers on! And turned a few cartwheels too. Bring on summer!

One Year

We spent a lovely weekend with Grandma & Grandpa celebrating a whole year since Grandpa's cancer diagnosis. It was cool and windy the first two days, but beautifully sunny on our last day there.

The girls were thrilled to be greeted by cousins on Friday night!

We squeezed in some serious reading time, shoe shopping, and the girls even learned how to play Life over the weekend!

Thanks for borrowing me your sweet fur hat, Mom!

Pretty great to have Grandpa helping you with batting practice!

Thanks for the beautiful and fun weekend! And praise God for Grandpa's health over the past year :)

Mother's Day

I had the greatest Mother's day! Not only am I blessed to be the mother of my sweet girls, but I got to spend the weekend with my mom!! We painted, planted, hiked, laughed, and enjoyed being together.