Minnehaha Falls

So I decided to do a backtrack pos to May 2014 when we went to minnehaha falls frozen.  When we uploaded the pictures off my mom's phone today I decided to post the pictures.

Behind the falls in some places it was slippery and so you could slide down a sheet of icd but, it was hard to get back up.

Aren't the falls beautiful!

This is from behind the falls looking down at the melting ice below.  We went down and Geoff actually fell through the ice but we pulled up quickly and he was absolutely fine.

Some of the ice behind the falls looked blue it was sooo cool!

 This is my and my LDS homeschool buddy Lydia.

The ice/snow was so high high up on this bench!

I also wanted to say that we had the missionaries over for dinner and Elder Rudd ate 14 rolls! 14!   

Bird Bird Bird Is the Word!

I do not know if all of you know my Moms love of birds and naturally if a Mom loves birds her kids are  prone to love the also.  So, yesterday we went birding with our LDS/ homeschooling/ birding friend around lake Como.  We saw some really cool birds here are pictures of the birds we saw!  We did not take any of the pictures our friend took one of them but the rest were found online.  

This little guy we still have not figured out what exactly it is but, I do know one thing this guy is cute!

This beauty is a Baltimore Oriole.  We were walking around the lake Como.  Zak was walking ahead suddenly he come running back "There is a Baltimore Oriole up ahead I think it might still be there! Hurry!"  I go running ahead and, there it is in all it's glory. So us and our friends are standing in the path admiring the bird and a guy comes walking along dressed in a button up shirt and sunglasses "What is it?" he asks "It is a Baltimore Oriole!" "Oh, I thought it was something important." This bird is not rare or anything but, we had never seen it before and it is obviously beautiful!  

 This is a Cedar Waxwing.  It looks so cool!  I think it kind of looks like a businessman perching there all regal and important looking.  Isn't it pretty! 

The last really cool bird we found was a Double Crested Cormorant it was perching in a tree like in this picture.  We were walking along and I point out this big black bird siting in a tree so, we pull out our handy dandy binoculars and look in our guide book and what do ya know it is a double crested cormorant!  This bird is not rare either but, it is not super common either.  

Yesterday was such a great day!!!

Memorial Day

For memorial day each year our ward has a memorial day breakfast. The youth were in charge of it this year.  So here is the breakfast.

 This afternoon we went on a bike ride with some friends. We rode to a lake. Here are the boys way up on the life guard chair.

 And again for the second time in the past 5 days we are at Nelsons! It just opened last Saturday we totally like this place!!! 

Grandma and Grandpa

On Saturday we went downtown to get hotdogs (yum!!). There was a beautiful fountain.  We (start playing Mary Poppins) fed the birds ( tuppins a bag). 

St. Paul is the home town of the man who wrote Charlie Brown. So there are statues of Charlie Brown and other characters from Charlie Brown scattered all over St. Paul.  

This beauty is the James J Hill house. It is complete with 13 bathrooms, 22 fireplaces, 16 chandeliers, a reception hall nearly 100 feet long, a two story skylit art gallery, and a playroom which originally had a piano a stage and chests of dress up.  It is soooo pretty.

Nelson's ice cream is the BEST place in MN to get ice cream. It has even been named one of the top 25 place to get ice cream in the world!  The reason it is sooo amazing is because the give you a TON of ice cream for a GREAT price it is sooooo great.

Thank you sooo much for visiting Grandma and Grandpa we love you!!!

Graduation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dad's Graduation was on Friday!!! Yay!!!  

 A Superman pose because he is Superman!!!

 A well deserved hug.

 If you look you can see my Dad.

 The family with the superman.

 Smooch!

 Yup that is right he has got the power!

 The boys with there AMAZING dad !!!

 And me with the my sooooooooo cool dad!

And of course a selfie.

 That guy kissing my dad (creepy!!) is his best friend from law school, Matt.

That lady in the yellow dress is my dad's favorite professor and that other dude is my dads best friend from law school . . . again.

GRADUATION!!!!

DAD IS GRADUATING FROM LAW SCHOOL!!!!!!!

Grandma and Grandpa are visiting for the graduation we figured we wanted them to feel welcome and we wanted dad to know how TOTALLY AWESOME he is.

He is growing up (crying)

Hug and kisses

 DRESS UP!!!

 Nothing like a oversized hammer fight

 or an undersized hammer

Dad and his little girl.

More pictures to came (because who doesn't like pictures!!!)

THE CHAIR IS DONE!!!!!!

This is Kieva. I am trying to post on our family blog frequently.  My mom decided to reupholster our living room chair and . . .  a long year later it is FINALLY done!!! Here is the before and  . . .

 AFTER!!!!! It was worth the wait even if the wait was a year long wait.