Summer's End

Summer has come to an end, not technically but as all Minnesotans know The Great Minnesota Get Together marks the end of freedom for kids and summer outings for families and Labor Day marks the end of summer cabin fun...even though we can continue after the weather cools down.



Up high at the State Fair

Full from the State Fair ;-)

With such a quiet beginning of the summer waiting in anticipation for our boy to arrive we tried to get some fun in while the summer was ending. We have had a couple of cabin trips where we get to watch Bel and her cousins fall in love with cabin life, a State Fair adventure with lots of yummy food and a belated friends birthday party for Bel and her friends, and with that summer is ending! Doing these things as a family of four is so different than what it was with just one, we have to have more time to get ready to go out, we have to find quick stops in order for me to nurse little one and even more daunting than that we need to find lots of things to keep Bel busy as baby boy is having his needs met. I am so blessed to have the partner in life that I have because without him these things would be almost impossible tasks!

Snuggle with Mason at the Cabin

With Griffin at Pump It Up

Birthday Party with Griffin, Grayson, Emmalee and Addie!

We have discovered early in our son's life that he is an outdoor kid already, this weekend at the cabin any time he was upset just taking him out to the waterfall or even just rocking on the deck he would calm right down and fall asleep. Bel too loves the outdoors and she too kept busy by playing in the water and sand with her cousins, had s'mores and ice cream... there isn't anything better than cabin life!

It doesn't get any better than this!

Beyond our adventures this is the second time in my teaching career that I will not be headed back to school with all of my co-workers, I have taken an extended maternity leave through early December. I am looking forward to the quality time I will have at home with my little guy and on occasion keeping his big sister home too have some fun too! We are also looking forward to other adventures soon like heading to the North Shore with Uncle Andy as well as heading out to California with little Grandpa and Grandma. And of course more time at the Cabin with Big Grandpa and Grandma! Life is wonderful!