Jay Cooke State Park

Well, we have springtime fever and were tired of being cooped up in the house so we ventured to Jay Cooke State Park. Once we arrived we had Ethan in the pack and headed over the swinging bridge to view the waterfalls only to find that all the trails were packed with about 2 inch of slick ice. Needless to say with a preggo and a 15 month old we didn't take the chance of biffing and headed back into the car for the drive home. Pretty uneventful weekend that's for sure. When is it going to get above freezing again?!

Papa (puppy) where are you?

15 months old!

Our very own deer park

Outside play with Izzy 3.13.09

The cat's out of the bag...

Ethan is going to be a big brother! Baby Harms #2 is due to arrive 9/29/09.

Look who's 40!

Yes, I guess I do have to claim them as my parents. The shirt says it all.

One sexy 40 year old

Hannah modeling her mom Bonnie's actual gym uniform from the early 80's. Just so you know, this is a one piece. (PS, nice Farah hair!)

Grandpa with hair.

Mary Miland (my aunt) recently turned the big 4-0 on Saturday. She decided to host her own party and had everyone come dressed in the year they graduated highschool. My parents went all out as hippies. The only thing they were missing was the weed. As most of you know, the 90's was fairly boring, so Scott and I dug out his famous "sayings" shirts. We had lots of good food from smoked pulled pork sandwiches, fondue, buffalo chicken dip to a banana split bar and the official rice krispie bday cake. Scott and I joined Ben, Hannah and Melissa in rockband. (yeah, we better stick with our day jobs), others played Canasta, Apples to Apples and the game Things. (Things is definetly a good game for the college gang to play. Similar to apples but you get to make your own responses and you have to guess who wrote what response. I'll see if I can hook us up for Wautoma). Everyone fizzled down around midnight, including Grandma Karen who always leaves early!

Who needs water?

Since Ethan has figured out how to flip himself into the toybox, low and behold he has managed to throw himself into the tub. Thank goodness no water was in it. I guess the kid knows when he is stinky. (might have something to do with his new favorite toy being the garbage can. He loves to throw my dishtowels away.)

Is it spring yet?

Vacation

We got to spend a few days with my parents and Andy & Mary and their boys at Causeway on Gull in Nisswa last weekend. Our condo was very nice and the boys enjoyed using the hot tub as their mini swimming pool. My dad just kept adding ice making it feel like a bath tub. We played lots of Canasta, watched the Oscar's, ate some really good cooking from my mom, ice fished and took my brother's 4-wheeler for a spin. Ethan came down with Croup so had to make a pit stop to Urgent Care. (you know we can't go on a vacation without someone getting sick) My mom and I also ventured out for a "ladies night" only to leave the BINGO from hell early as they screwed us over. We ended up seeing Slumdog Millionaire. (ps, not a light, fun movie at all) We had a fun weekend and a huge thanks to Andy and Mary for watching Izzy for us and to my parents for the invite! (I hope they invite us back next time, we did pass a lot of germs)

Rocking it!

The battle with toybox

In an attempt to keep Ethan entertained, we took the cover off the toybox and watched as he proceeded to remove every toy from the box and throw it on the floor. However, I think the toy box won in the end as Ethan went for nose dive to get the last set of rings out and got stuck. Scott and I couldn't help but laugh and take a picture of course!

Toy Store

Dad and Ethan, Matt and Genevieve

Kyle and Miles

"Dad, I take this and that and don't forget the train set."

"This toy store is huge!"

Superbowl Bash

"I like my new pj's from the Kroenings, but I'm afraid I may have a diaper wedgie" This is what 3 babies look like when their parents are acting like fools trying to get their attention.

Ethan: "Hey Miles! I think I have one of these eye things too!"

Miles: "Yeah, then touch your own eye"

Genevieve: "Hey guys, get with program. I got my killer smile on!"

The Ladies

(...oh wait, I guess that is Kyle in the comfortable legs crossed position.)

We went down to our good friends Robin and Kyle's for the annual Superbowl get-together. We went to Lark Toy Store in Kellogg where the kiddos all had there very first carousel ride. We then ventured to Nelson Cheese factory across the border for lunch. We had lots of yummy snacks, chili and beverages courtesy of the Kroenings and the Bansemar's with her fancy caramel french toast bake. Miles (8 months) and Ethan (13 months) enjoyed tackling each other for toys as Baby Genevieve (4 months) was the referree.

Book worm

Ethan loves to go into his room and pull out all of his books from his basket and page through each one. Either we have a super book worm on our hands or the beginning stages of a mini nerd.