Summer Fun!

Here are some photos I took today at South Twin Lake. The Offerdahl's from Florida and Grandpa Fox rented a cabin On South Twin Lake for the week. They invited us and Griffin's family to join them for the day.  The weather was great! The kids had a blast swimming and playing bean bag toss game. Most of the day the kids spent swimming in the water. The lake is vary shallow and sandy. The kids had a blast!

Brianna, Tim and Ava having fun in the water.

Braden being silly!

Braden and Ava playing bean bag toss game.

Jason, Barry and Heather enjoying the summer sun.

Braden and Trysten looking for creatures in the lake.

All of the kids enjoying the lake. The are at the end of a 30ft dock and it is less than 2 feet deep.

Here is Tim and Trysten playing against Braden and Brianna. While in the back ground all of the men sitting in the shade of the cabin. Taking a break from the sun.

Ava 4th Birthday!

For Ava's 4th Birthday she wanted to have a big party at the park. Last year we went to Taylor's Birthday Party here at University Park in Grand Forks and had a blast. So we decided to have it there since we would be in town for Tyler and April's wedding.  It was a hot day outside and the kids had a blast in the water park area while all of the adults visited in the shade.

Ava and Halle are going through the rainbow sprinkler.

Ava is showing Grandma Hattie and Nicky what she got for a gift, as Braden watches in the background.

Here is Braden sitting on a sprinkler cooling his bottom off. Yes he is wearing his clothes. I forgot to make sure he packed his trunks before we left home. And in North Dakota the store are not open before NOON on Sundays! Needless to say we did not have time to shop for another one for him. As you can see he did not mind.

Here is the Birthday girl with all smiles! She is showing off her new swimsuit.

Here we are tying to light Ava's candles on the cake.

I had to shield the wind from blowing out the candles.

Macy, Taylor, Halle and Ava stopping for just a minute to get their photo taken.

Here are some of the adults sitting the shade and enjoying the nice weather.

Wedding Fun!

Jason's cousin Tyler got married this past Saturday so, we made the drive over to Grand Forks for the big celebration.  It was such a pretty wedding and reception. Our kids had a blast dancing and visiting with all of their cousins. Here are some great photos I took of them dancing and caring on.

Halle and Ava posing so nicely for the photo. Don't they have pretty dress on?

Braden is busy trying not to look at me while Jason and Ava dances.

Auntie LaVonne and Bralynn dancing too.

Another photo of Braden trying to hide from the camera again.

Kylee and Macy doing the hokey poke.

Here is Ava dancing all by herself and not caring who is watching. Bralynn is dancing and enjoying herself.

Thursday June 17th

Here is Ava and I planting flowers in our new garden. Jason dug up all of the sod and planted a tree for us and he even put brick around the edge of the garden for us.

He is Jason working hard for Ava and I to be able to plant some flowers and hopefully this fall some shrubs. Our yard is very large and blan. This will hopefully help it look some what nice. We would also like to do another garden like this on the other side of the driveway.  Maybe this fall when we get our shurbs we will have time to do this again.