Look out world... we have a walker!

It's official, Logan is walking!  He's taking at least 5 steps at a time, and is getting faster every day.  This little guy is definitely keeping mom and dad on our toes! 

Fishing Opener!

Last weekend was fishing opener, so Win and our neighbor, Ken, headed up to his cabin to try and catch some monster fish.  No monster fish, but they did catch some nice perch that they fried up for dinner, and a really nice bass (although they had to throw it back since it's not quite bass season). 
While the men were away, the women did play!  Kari and I headed to Nana's house with the kiddos to enjoy some sunshine, boat rides, and fishing of our own.  Ok, to be honest, we fished for all of five minutes, but the sunshine was heavenly!  The kids took the paddle boat out for a ride, cruised all around the bay, and scoped out a turtle that was sunning himself on the neighbor's dock.  All in all a fantastic weekend!

The boat floats!

We launched the pontoon last night and went out for the first ride of the season.  Even with one of those suffocating life jackets on, Logan loved it. 

First Successful Fishing Day of the Season!

After a lot of hard work on Saturday, we headed to Nana's on Sunday to get the boat and do some fishing.  Well turns out the boat place was closed, so it turned into a just fishing day.  Poor us, right?  Oh man did we have luck!  There were crappies everywhere.  We caught 12 off Nana's dock, kept 9 of them, and missed about 20 others.  They were finicky little buggers.

 

Garden Planting- Part 1

We were back at it this weekend, and almost killed ourselves, getting the gardens ready.  We spent the entire day Saturday- 10 hours to be exact - setting up our super cool new gardens.  It took a little planning, in order to be sure Logan's nap times fell when there were jobs for both of us to be doing, but we managed to rototill, haul dirt, plant seeds and even had time to pretty up the kids play area.  Personally, I think it looks pretty amazing. :) 

We were only able to plant one garden this weekend since it still gets too cold for some of the other things we plan to grow.  So for now, we have planted peas, lettuce, and broccoli (two kinds).  In two weeks we'll plant the second garden and get our tomatoes and peppers into their outdoor containers.  Fingers crossed stuff will start to grow!

Waiting on spring...

Even though this past winter hasn't been as horrible as some we've had, we still can't wait for spring to get here- partially because the hubby has taken over my school room with his plants.  What?! you ask?  Ok, here's a little back story for you:  Last year we decided we were going to jump on the granola band wagon and start seeds inside to then plant outside once Minnesota decided to join the rest of the world and warm up.  Well, about two weeks in we had clearly done something wrong as not a thing was growing, or what had sprouted had died.  Fail.  So instead we headed to Home Depot, bought our plants like every other year and called it good.  That brings us to this year.  A little more determined, and a little more educated on the whole growing plants thing, and voila, PLANTS!

 

 
Problem now, Minnesota weather is taking it's sweet *** time warming up, so we can't plant these things outside until it stops freezing at night.  So, Z and A and I are enjoying our daily math and reading lessons in a mini green house surrounded by the delightful smells of tomatoes and basil.  Perfect, in my opinion.


So in preparation of spring coming eventually, we spent last weekend building our raised garden beds.  Turned out pretty fantastic in my opinion.  Parks helped of course, while Logan napped.  We used cedar boards, cut down to size and drilled to be 3'x5' boxes.  A little edge on the top finished them off nicely. 

Back at it...

So after an over 3 year hiatus, we're back!  And this time, we're a family of four.  Logan Michael joined our beautiful little family on June 23, 2014 and has been a bundle of non stop giggles, excitement and movement ever since.  We've been doing so many fun things as a family, that I can't help but think I'll regret not documenting it over the years... so here goes...