minnesota state fair

It’s that time again! The great Minnesota get together. Butterflies, Fairborne and Fairchild, bacon on a stick, cheese curds, rides and a bucket of chocolate chip cookies.

throwback thursday ( august 31, 2016 )

crazy eyes

splash pad

Enjoying what’s left of the summer. Some of the leaves are already starting to change color!

emma's collection

103 smashed pennies. 5 smashed dimes. 16 smashed quarters.

magnets

Emma has her collections and I have mine. New magnets from all the places we visited.

more coins

It wouldn’t have been a vacation if we didn’t come back with new smashed coins from the places we visited. I added a Canadian penny into the mix. Emma loves collecting rocks, so she brought home some new ones too. Now I just need to figure out something

date night

technical difficulties

We had some technical difficulties with our website that couldn’t be fixed until we got home. Braden fixed it tonight and I added the rest of the posts from our trip. Scroll down 4 or 5 posts to get all caught up!

we're home!

We pretty much did nothing today except dress up and catch flies.

corn palace

We were trying to make a big push for home on Wednesday. From Wall, SD it’s about a 9 hour drive. We stopped along the way to let the girls play at a playground, then made a stop at the Corn Palace. We made one more stop at a

the badlands

We started our trip home on Tuesday. I really wanted to stop at Wall Drug and Braden really wanted to spend the night on “the wall” ( basically the edge of a cliff in the Badlands)… so we did both. Emma said “I want to go back to the Badlands so