School Days!

School started and it's been busy! Getting these two up in the morning and ready for the day is a challenge some mornings. But they make me laugh. Kiersten I found out is a true Vikings fan. Purple in one ear gold in the other! All on her own too! And then there's the bear shelf. We switched the top bear to the school bear. Each holiday or month a different themed bear gets the privilege of sitting on top! Thanks Grandma Diane :) 

First Day of Third Grade!

I can't believe she's a third grader!!!!! They grow so fast. She was so excited to go back to school! 

Pickling cucumbers!

Time for so famous bread and butters! Thanks Bill and Meryl for the recipe :) hope ours taste as good as yours!!!!!!!!

And thanks to our friends that have us a ton of cucumbers since ours didn't do too well this year! 

Sundays Best!

One last visit

One last visit from my family from Germany. Now they are on their way back home. We had a little family FaceTime Sunday night and it was a big cry fest! I just met my brother Mark but it feels like we have known each other for years! He reminds me so much of my little brother JC. Some day again we will see them. What a great visit. We looked at old photos and ate great food. And then sat on the back deck with our cool new tiki torches! Good memories!  

Patriotic Rainbow

I captured the picture as I was headed to an evening work out at CBRC. 

Family BBQ

Finally met my brother!

After many years of waiting to meet Mark someday, we finally met.  We shared a wonderful easy going evening with our brother Jc and his wife Madison and their kids. It was great to catch up and get to know Mark!   It went by too fast. 

Elk River 2014

Garden Update

Pumpkins growing strong!

Cucumbers not growing as fast as I thought. 

Cantaloupe growing crazy!!!!

Tomatoes growing crazy! We thought only two plants were going to make it. The two we bought from the store but as it turns out 6 of my starters that I planted actually grew into great plants! 

Early jalepeno peppers. 

Walla walla sweets!

Carrots and cilantro growing pretty strong. :) love this!!!

First Raspberry Harvest

A few raspberries were ripe! And our vegetable garden is in full swing! This is really fun!