Lake Visit

Yesterday, Grandma and I took Ellie out to visit Tim's Aunt Brenda and 2 of her girls at their lake cabin on Battle Lake.







Ellie thought she had a butterfly in her hand so Brenda taught her a little about dead clams.
















Claire is Brenda's middle daughter. Lee (their youngest daughter) was also there but didn't happen to get into any pictures. :(















I have no idea what Ellie was talking about but I've never caught this action/look/funny thing that she does. So I had to post it for you all to see.

The "New" 808

Old 808

New 808 (with gardening coming slowly)

Old entry

New entry

New Kitchen (forgot to get a pic of old kitchen - not much is different)

Old dining room looking into living room

New dining room looking into living room

Better look into living room

Old bedroom

New bedroom

The Hunt

I've started a new job in the last couple weeks at a home health care company but in order to have a job you need to prove you exist. So for a couple weeks I've been trying to prove there's a me. I thought my social security card was still in the cities but it wasn't. So we spent a couple days trying to think of where it could be. We had an "AH HA" moment and went looking for our filing cabinets only to find them locked. Then we spent a day or two looking for the keys...to no avail. So the above picture (cause I couldn't figure out how to get this paragraph above the picture) is Tim breaking into our cabinet.

This is Ellie's response. We laughed because we think she thought he was just laying down on the floor with an invisible pillow, "bankek" and nuk.

And yes, I have proven my existence. I will get paid someday.

And yes, we found the keys a half hour after we destroyed the cabinet.

For Auntie Gail

Ellie's Olympics

Ellie went to back to her daycare in Apple Valley today for
the Shining Stars Daycare Olympics!

Sharon said they did 4 or 5 events and each won the gold metal!
And also got a candy bouquet!

This it the paper torch that each kid made and got to carry around the yard past the flags.
We have made some attempts to convince Sharon to move to FF with us to no avail.
How will we ever find a comparable daycare????

This is...

...us cuddling and watching Dragon Tales.

















...Ellie wearing her Great-Great Grandmother's earings.

Clip ons that is...















...the belly comparison.

My sis-in-law is 4 weeks ahead of me. Therefore 4 weeks of more belly.

They'll find out what it is on Tuesday!












Chad.

Weekend in the Cities

I know it's blurry but it's the face/smile that we are getting these days.
She was pretty excited to be back at G & G Larsen's house for the week.

I think we found our 2008 Christmas Card picture.

We went to Centennial Lakes to play minigolf for my friend Michelle's birthday.
It's on real grass, there's real ducks, a real pond for your ball to fall into, and it's real fun.

If you didn't notice, look again, she's cross-eyed.
And that's a McDonald's happy meal toy doll she's sucking on.

My mom's twin brother, Bill came to town with his wife, Sandi.
We haven't seen them since us Larsen kids were wee kids.
So it was lots of fun to catch up and show off our significant others,
our children and our growing bellies.