Winter in Minnesota

Most people I know think this winter has been terrible, but I have been loving it. Beautiful snow on more days than not. What could be better?

Jackson Street Roundhouse

My 2011 scrapbooking goals are to end with fewer pages left to do than in 2010 and be less far behind. That's going to take a lot of scrapbooking. So far this year, I had done three pages, which is not going to help. I finally got tired of knitting yesterday and decided to whip out this page.

Digital Scrapbooking Day

It's been awhile since I've been inspired to scrapbook, but I figured today made it necessary to throw something together.

Liam's art teacher is wonderful. The kids learn about different artists, try various methods. Liam loved to draw before, but he is even more interested now, especially in sculpture. He came home in late December or early January asking us to go to an art museum. We finally took the opportunity January 30 and had a lovely visit to MIA. Neither Jeff nor I had been there before, which is too bad, because it's wonderful. We will definitely go back.

2010 Camping

Our camping weekends tend to be of three varieties--with friends, with family, or on our own. Aside from the long vacation, we're not doing any of the latter.

This weekend, we went to Kiesler's with Westbergs. The boys all have a great time playing together, and their oldest Eric is very helpful watching the younger kids. Liam got some time in the pool and finally seems to have figured out how to ride his bike.

When we camp with friends, we always seem to end up doing a little bit of geocaching. Our goal for the year is to find 250. We did 8 yesterday and 8 with friends earlier this summer.

A Weekend in Chicago

Chicago's a great city, so when we found out the Field Museum was hosting a special exhibit about pirates, we knew we had to go. Jeff found a hotel with a small waterpark, so we spent a wonderfully relaxing weekend there and visited the Brookfield Zoo and Field Museum as well.

(This was the oldest undone page.)

Hangin' with the Grandparents

My new goal for the year, now that I'm more than 16 months and 100 events behind, is to scrap new moments within 48 hours. Jeff is unconvinced, but I finished this one just six short hours after leaving the Almelund Threshing Show, and there was a 2 hour drive in there.

I'm not terribly interested in tractors, nor is Jeff, but we love for the boys to spend time with my parents. (His, too, for that matter, but they're almost always off somewhere else.) Most years, we make the trip up to Almelund for a few hours. Today was a beautiful, if muddy, day, and the boys had a great time. Liam was a very big helper, and tested out his skills as a salesman.

Easter 2010

The boys had a great time finding candy and Easter eggs hidden all over our upstairs. Thankfully, Sadie didn't eat any.