Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Florida

We spent a week in Florida hanging out with friends and family.  We hit the beach a couple of times.  Norah rolled over for the first time at the beach, we were so excited.  It was so hot and humid, it was the summer we never had here in Minnesota.  

Holmes Beach, FL




  
We spent a couple of days at Michelle and Frank's house.  Norah was super excited to be in FL with family!
Spending a week with girls will do this to a boy.



Sophia, Norah and Caedon doing some tummy time on a blanket

One of fifty photos we took  and this is the best I could do to get all the cousins to look at the camera.   Olivia is holding Nemo and looking straight ahead so nicely, Norah and Julia are checked out of the photo shoot, and Caedon and Sophia are chatting about who know what. 



Sophia and Caedon in 2007 when we last visited FL.  We penciled in some dark eyebrows as a joke.  It didn't stop here...


We may have started a family tradition?

Caedon loved it so much two years ago that he wanted to get his eyebrows drawn in again.

Lido Beach, FL
 

Caedon and Jen found a real crab in the ocean.  We brought him home with us, but he didn't survive long, since we didn't have the right food, water, and other essential things for life. 


Jen's best friend from high school, Shanna, visited us for a night.  Her boys, Michael (8) and Matthew (10), tagged along for a nostalgic evening remembering high school memories and catching up on life. 




 





Don't tell Maria that we jumped off the couch





Caedon's attempt at giving Sophia a piggyback ride. 

Jenny and Phill and their sweet baby girls Emery and Makenna 

Seven kids under 4 years old, enough said

Caedon's already getting yanked around by the ear

It's so haaarrddd, to say goodbye, to Emery (can you hear Boyz II Men singing)

Babka and the kids







Sunday, September 27, 2009

Pass the ketchup


So this is what it feels like to blog.  Our inaugural blog!  I finally decided we needed an easier way to update photos and keep in touch with friends and family without joining Facebook.  We had a website that we would update occasionally with photos but it just got to be really tedious so we are trying out the blog.  So we have some catching up to do, enjoy the photos. 

 

Caedon and Ian getting ready for the puddles

5 months old



Never a moment of rest for Caedon's golf game.







Great Aunt Martha


Yummy custard from Custard Last Stand

Caedon was amused with carousels recently and couldn't pass it at the Fair

Nothin' like a Pronto Pup at the State Fair



Just woke up from a nap

Backyard summer fun with Ian

Sporting the shades at Katie and Andrew Markquart's wedding

Another Day at Calhoun Beach

We ran into our neighbor Ian at the beach


Day Out With Thomas the Train Engine





Second Cousin Samantha

Great Grandpa Exsted, Great Uncle Dean

Great Grandma Exsted







Minnesota Zoo







Forth of July Parade, Edina, MN





An afternoon at Lake Calhoun




One of many summer days at the pool