St. Cloud

I had a conference in St. Cloud this past week, Dan and the kids came with.

We had a great time. Emily and Louie loved playing in the pool.

Emily also discovered that she has much more in common with Auntie M, like her auntie, Emily realized that she loves to lounge around in bed. Everytime we were in the room with some down time, she would jump up on the bed and pull the covers up to her chin and lounge. She even decided that she had to eat her dinner in there on Thursday night.

It is not a habit that will continue when we got home.

Fall is here! Yeah!

Finally, the fall weather has arrived and we can start wearing the new fall clothes. Well, Louie can. We haven't gotten to the store for Emily's fall clothes yet. Maybe this weekend. Here's a couple pictures from the last week. Louie got this cute outfit last year for a baby gift. It was too cute for a newborn, so we got in a size for when he was walking. He thinks he is so cool with his vest on, he LOVES wearing it!
We went outside that morning to look for trucks. Lou loves trucks and runs to the door whenever he hears one drive by, even down on Cretin. He'll hear the garbage trucks at 6am and yell "cruck!" He gets very excited, thinking he might get to see one.
Emily thinks it is funny to walk around the house with her eyes crossed. I keep telling her that they are going to get stuck that way, she doesn't listen.

The Big Game

Dan and Don reffed a high school football game last Friday afternoon. MH was there to capture the event on camera.

State Fair

Last Friday, we ventured to the Minnesota State Fair. It was so much fun. We took Emily and Louie's cousin, Billy with us.

We arrived at the fair at 8:30 in the morning, got a great parking spot and it was off to have fun and eat lots of food on a stick. The first thing we did, go and have breakfast. We headed over to the Miracle of Birth Center to see the baby farm animals. There was a lamb that was born at 5:30 that morning, it was so cute trying to stand up on it's wobbly legs. There was a calf that was born the day before and there was a litter of 14 piglets being born while we were there. I'm not sure if Emily liked that or not???

After the baby animals, we went to the DNR building and looked at the fish, then we headed over to the Grand Stand to see all the "crap" that is "as seen on TV" being peddled. We had fun in there, we saw the world's biggest belt buckle too, the thing was the size of a turkey platter, literally. It was all fancy and glittered too. UGLY.

It was a beautiful day, but started to really get hot. We headed home after a few hours.

Messy Room!

Remember when I said that Emily liked to empty out her drawers on her new bed?

Well here's what that mess looks like: