Recent pics..summer 2014

Last weekend we went to the Minneapolis Fire Museum, where you can check out old fire trucks -- even get in and pretend to drive this one. And then they take you on a ride around the neighborhood in an old fire truck. We got to sit up on the back (like where the hoses go), but the kids didn't want me to take a picture for some weird reason. 

Here's a pic of Ben with one of his Lego creations....

And a pic of Ben today at the Washburn County Fair in Spooner...

And here's Maddie with her Tinker Toy creation....

And Maddie last week, dressed up like Elsa from "Frozen." She wore this to her "princess and fairies" art camp that she attended (just a couple hours each morning last week).

Giant slide

You can see a video of the kids going down the giant slide at the Washburn County Fair, in Spooner, today.

They had so much fun!

Click on this link to see the video

Summer 2014!

Saturday was a quintessentially perfect summer day at the cabin -- brilliant sunshine, warm but not ungodly hot and a little breeze. I pulled out the fancy camera to add to our collection of pictures on the cabin wall. I try to get at least one or two each summer and the kids love seeing pictures from years past. In fact, they wanted to re-create a couple of them in these pictures.....