Sam's small moments writing

Sam has been doing lots of writing in first grade. He just finished his small moments writing exercise where the students are asked to pick a topic and then write about one specific piece in detail. Sam's overall topic was our trip last summer to the cabin at Potato Lake. His small moment that he chose to write about was catching a fish. You can listen to his story here. Enjoy!

Tapping Maple Trees

Jenny was out of town this past weekend so the boys, all 4 of us, needed something to do. We decided to join a group of folks at the Wayzata Big Woods to learn how to tap a Maple tree. Here you can see one of our buckets. We need to check every few days to see if our buckets are full.

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In the future we will make more of an effort to keep this up-to-date.

A Vampire, Tiger & Lion!

Another year of great costumes and lots of fun. Grandma made Nick's Tiger outfit, we used the Lion outfit again for Joe and Sam went as a Vampire! Nick has enjoyed spending the week with his class pet "Spike" who went to the Halloween Ball with us dressed as a "Hot Dog".

A message from the boys

We're looking forward to the game tomorrow. Loser buys dinner when you're back home in November!

Hi from Joe! I'm 6 months today!

Sam's first day of 1st Grade!

Our annual first day of school picture! Sam is off to first grade... He's looking forward to it!

Joe's Baptism

We had Joseph's baptism this past Sunday. It was a gorgeous day. Thank you to all of you who shared in his special day!