monday ramblings

First off, I'd like you to meet the newest member of our family....
In our hearts that is.... we fell in love with this little guy at the pet shop this weekend. We named him "Mauer" and dreamed of bringing him home with us, but our daddy said, "No. No No No. No WAY. Seriously, NO!!!" Poor us. He was the cutest little thing we ever did see.Dad said he just loved his little princess Emme too much and he didn't want her to ever think she had been replaced.
Okay... that's not really what he said. But... she is his little princess even if he won't admit it.

On another note, Tim and I went to the movie The Hangover this weekend and laughed so.dang.hard.

We both agreed it was one of the funniest movies we'd ever seen. So go see it... but leave the kids at home. Just about every seen has something that is totally and completely inappropriate.

rip-off

Whatever happened to some good affordable fun. I took three of the kids (Carter and Tim were in the cities for another soccer tournament) to the Red River Valley Fair last Friday and was not quite prepared the amount of cash that would be needed. So after we paid our gate admission, walked in, realized our lack of funds, walked back out, drove to the bank, went back and purchased the ride wristbands for the kids, I was already more than $100 down. And then there was the food...

The kids had fun at least.

Dear Hazel,

I think being naughty is very fun too!

our weekend

We had a very busy weekend and packed in lots of fun. Friday night Tim and I went out to the RRVFair with some friends for the Zac Brown Band concert. On Saturday the girls and I headed to Pelican Rapids for the Turkey Days parade and to the craft show at Phleps Mill. We also visited Grandma Sandi's lake cabin and went to Maple Beach for supper. The girls painted rocks at Phelps Mill.

On Sunday it was my birthday so I got to choose the activities! First we went to the Flea Market by Detroit Lakes (which nobody else enjoys, except my COOPER!) Then we went to Go Putt & Bump for mini-golf and go-karts, and finally to Zorbaz on the lake for supper.

4th of July

at Little Cormorant

I promised...

a baseball post for Cooper! The boys are in Babe Ruth baseball again this summer in the 9 and 10 year old leauge and their team this year is CashWise. Unfortunately it hasn't been a very successful year for them... but we are proud of them anyway!

Katelyn is way ahead of me and already has a slideshow from our July 4th weekend up on her blog... http://katiemacsblog.blogspot.com/

wait a minute...

Is June really over???

Here is a little re-wind of our month...

Katelyn performed in the production of Honk Jr. that was put on through Trollwood and Moorhead Schools. It is a modern re-telling of the children's story The Ugly Duckling. She played the part of the TURKEY!


Each cast member got to decorate their very own rubber duck. Katelyn's was painted to look like a bumblebee.
Jack and Ella even came to watch one of Katelyn's performances!
Miss Kennedy and mom had a whole Saturday to ourselves so we headed out to the mall and Kennedy got a PERM!
It turned out very cute...

Time with BFF Kenzie at the Village Green Pool...
And Carter has continued to have traveling soccer tournaments each weekend. I broke out the long lens a couple of weekends ago when he played in Fargo.

Carter scored TWO goals during this tournament that were headers from a corner kick... pretty AMAZING!

And in case you noticed that one of our children has been completely left out from this post, not to worry. I plan to take pictures of COOP playing baseball tonight and will post them very soon!

Funny Cooper story.... He was asked to play with Carter's soccer team for last weekend's tournament in the cities because they were short a few players. Carter was a little worried about how his brother would do.... turns out that in the second game Cooper scored not one, but TWO GOALS! Way to go Cooper Man!

our night with kenny

Kenny was in town last night... so of course we went to hang out with him for a couple of hours.I think this was the 6th time we've seen Kenny in concert, and we never get tired of it. I'd have to say, though that this concert was the best one yet. (It could have something to do with the killer tickets we had...) See you next time Kenny.

belated birthdays

Since I was sort of "out of town" for the boys birthdays, we finally got around to planning a birthday party for them. We didn't PLAN on it raining all day and night, but all 13 boys still had fun at the Redhawks game!

Cooper with his favorite neighbors... Riley and Griffin.The entertainment for the night was comedian Myron Noodleman!

When you are 10, it is very embarrasing for your mom to make you stand still in front of all your friends for a picture.
***On a little side note... Tim and I woke up this morning to cupcake wrappers and sprinkles in our bed, and just about everywhere else thanks to the dog. After having gotten into the birthday garbage during the night, she was not feeling so good this morning.

Carter's Soccer Tournament

Carter is playing traveling soccer this summer and had his first tournament last weekend in Grand Forks. They won all four games for the championship... Carter played really great.Here are his brother and sister paying very close attention to their brother's game...We had to bring Emme with... she was such a good girl but got alittle hot with all her long hair!

Tim wore his hat backwards for the whole day on Saturday and got this really great tan line across the middle of his forehead.