party favors
Now that July is here I’m in full birthday party planning mode. Today Emma’s party favors arrived! A few of her favorite things: sunglasses, necklaces, bubbles, stamps and Swedish Fish.
throwback thursday ( july 6, 2016 )
where is everyone?
If it was in the 60s the pool would be packed. Today it was in the 90s and it was just us.
happy 4th of july
Yesterday we celebrated the 4th of July by co-hosting a pig roast. We were all up way too late… but the girls both slept in past 8 AM for probably the first time ever.
family fun fest
All the cities here have their own festivals during the month of July. Rosemount has Leprechaun Days. Eagan has the FunFest. Tonight there was a family fun fest at the Apple Valley Freedom Days. You know we can’t say no to pony rides and a petting zoo. This was
flycatcher strikes again
Olivia caught another fly. We put it outside and it flew away.
painting with water
I gave the girls some cups of water and paintbrushes thinking they would paint on the sidewalk. Wrong. They had more fun pouring all the water out and refilling the cups.
schulze lake beach
We haven’t been here since the first year we moved to Minnesota. Not really sure why since its less than 10 minutes from our house… and obviously is a ton of fun.
throwback thursday ( june 29, 2016 )
welcome to our clean house
We have company coming tonight. I told Emma I was going to need her help getting everything cleaned. She’s so excited that we’re getting visitors that she went right to work. Olivia helped a little bit too. As payment for all their hard work I took them for
new park
We visited a new park today. My goal for the summer is to go to every park in our town at least once. So far we’ve been to 5 out of 19.