fun at the ehlerts

we got to go hang out at the ehlerts this weekend.

we went swimming, went to several soccer games, played and played.

jennie also made us all pancakes saturday morning!  it was a great weekend!

where the mississippi starts

a visit from the sandbergs

after the reunion janie, jeremy and robert got to stay at our house!

we had such a great time. 

it was so good to finally spend some quality time with janie and robert!

the kids got along and the "adults" stayed up until about 2AM

playing games and laughing and laughing!!

good times!

we also took the sandbergs to the coon rapids damn

and met some of the ehlerts.

the damn is so fun and it was great to be together!

surprise baby shower for sally!

we had a SURPRISE baby shower for sally!!

she didn't know anything about it!
it was sooooo fun.

we planned it way in advance and sally knew we were all

talking about something, but didn't know what!

she had some very cute present helpers!

i made the decorations and she got spoiled!! 

we are all so excited for this sweet baby boy gideon to get here!

finally, the streets are here!

OHHH! 

we are so excited.

the streets are finally here

and so is our philip sandberg family reunion!!!

we took the kids to mcdonalds to eat and play!

they had so much fun! 

we also went to ehlerts and went swimming, of course!

we can't wait to get to the lake!!

mini brett

we went on our first date here in MN tonight. 

when we got home kale's door was open so we went into see him.

we found him sleeping just like brett sleeps!

free lunch and friends

every wednesday the girls preschool does a free lunch for kids and parents.

we have gone almost every week.  they have the lunch and then lots of toys and stuff to play with in the gym!

one week they even had a jump house!

our friends, the hansens (i kid you not) have met us there to enjoy the meal together.

today we went to the park together and then they came back to our house to play! 

lots of dress up was going on!

she is growing up

this girl is ready for kindergarten!

she can ride a 2 wheeler bike, has lost tons of teeth and now...

knows how to tie her shoes!  woot woot!

i showed her after dinner last night and the girl got it in about 20 minutes!

smartie pants!!!

elm creek swimming pond

we love this place.

it's a "lake" that has filters and chlorine, is zero depth the whole way around and

 is super shallow throughout the whole lake.

it is a little bit of heaven for the whole family!

super hero kale

kale is really getting into super heros and fighter guys!

it is super adorable!  he wrestles and plays with brett all the time and has lots of figther figurines.

he loves to "super kick" brett while they are wrestling!

good father son bonding!

sherburne county fair

we went to the sherburne county fair on the hottest day EVER! 

we had a great time though!  the kids went on tons of rides.  we saw some cool animnals.

i went inside of a tank too!  it was SO small in there!

we only stayed for about an hour because it was so stinkin hot!