Finally connected!

I finally got my blog connected to the clouds that contain our photos (= How FUN is this pile of kids?!?

 

Vandenbergs were so close to us we just had to make the drive out to see them. Karen and I lived together long before we were married (=

Layla is being a real trouper and just having so much fun with whomever we are visiting. She and Bekah were great together!

We are loving the super cool playgrounds in America! Even if we are FREEZING! Layla is way at the top there. Still insisting on wearing dresses.

Ryan insists on very little. He is super easy going and just a happy kid. So helpful! Every time he sees water he yells WAAATEEERRRRR! Happens a lot in MN.

 

Through good old FB realized some friends were staying in a hotel nearby as they were on their own road trip and we had a dip in their pool!

Ahhh, the mall of America. So much entertainment in one place.

 

We have been blessed with a plethora of little girls to play with. Violet was super fun and very conciencious about cleaning up her toys. So cute.

Our old small group from church (minus 2 families). It was very newlyweds at the time. Obviously, we've all moved on!

One of our old haunts....awesome pizza right near Lake Nokomis!

 

Minnesota

We are really enjoying our time here. We have some great photos but due to our tremenously cool new phone they are floating in cloud storage and need to be sent to earth to live on my computer so I can send them back up in the air to you. Is this a crazy world or what?

We had about 4 days of warmth and then it has been too cold to really enjoy being outside. Such a pity as we had about one week of good weather back home before coming here. It had just gotten cool enough to enjoy being outside. My kids are really mixed up right now.

Thankfully they are sleeping well! ryan still takes a nap and needs to be woken up after about an hour and a half but they both sleep about 11 or 12 hours no matter when they go to sleep which is GOLDEN given our lifestyle.

We are enjoying the free, clean indoor play areas, and when it is sunny we run to the nearest playground and enjoy running around on all the fancy highquality equipment. You may know that MN is the "land of 10000 lakes" and the kids shout WATER! everytime they see one which is all the time aroun here