Saturday, March 23, 2013

Trip up North, etc.

I'm feeling completely unmotivated in the clever things to write department. Maybe that's because we went on a long trip and got back a week ago and I haven't recovered. And since then my kids have been sapping every last ounce of vim vigor and vitality I had left, so pics and boring explanations will have to do, for my 2 fans who were asking for them. 

 We traveled to MN to watch my lil baby nephew Mervin get MARRIED. what in the world? Kids these days! They think they can do things like grow up and get married. don't know where they got that idea, but anyway... I hear hear it was a lovely wedding. I was taking care of my screaming children most of the time, so I take their word for it (one was hungry and tired, the other doesn't like loud noises, laughter, clapping, etc. so was traumatized). Anyway, the above pic is my niece hanging out with my babes at the hotel.
 Keith and Hannah at the reception
 Pretty cool cake at the reception - Lego teacher and roller derbyist
 pretty nieces!
 haha - goofy Gavin and Matthew and Rhonda
 Liam
 The lovely couple

 Someone turned 6 months old

 We then went up to Red Lake and Aleah had a blast playing in the snow with cousins and we enjoyed visiting lots of family and friends. It was sort of a whirlwind trip. We drove back from International Falls all night Thursday night. The idea was that the kids would sleep nearly the whole time, making the trip go much faster. But somehow that didn't work, and we didn't get home till Friday afternoon. UGH! Sunday night Merle and Rita and Lamar from Red Lake were on their way through to PA and stopped for supper. :) fun times.
 My sister and sister in law made Dave and I this amazingly beautiful quilt for our wedding/5 year anniversary. :) I LOVE it ! The colors are off because I took these with flash in a rather dark room (see below pic) so it looks even more amazing in person. Back when my sister asked me what colors I wanted, I couldn't decide what in the world color our room would be for the next 70 years. So it ended up being lots of different colors and we can pull out whatever color our heart desires. It actually looks really nice with the orange wall that's in the place we're renting now. :) (oh, and I know you don't need 3 pics that look exactly the same, but I couldn't decide which to post, so there ya go. Also, I think the pic makes it look brighter than it is. in real life isn't more "rich" looking. Ok, I'll stop going on and on about it....)
 The reason it's hard to take pics and get things put away in our room. A little person is frequently sleeping in there.
 Aleah's fancy new do

doing a bit of cooking ... Ok, I guess that's all for now. somehow putting pics on my blog seemed like more fun than cleaning the house. But I spose I should do that to. Happy weekend!