A Special Wish for Auntie Terri

Love, Cowgirl Natalie and the family 

September Hail Storm

Natalie thought they were delicious 

A Beautiful Day for Golf

Josh played hookey from work and Nicky locked the kids in the van so we could enjoy a perfect fall day on the nines.
 

Apple Farm

Fall has arrived in Wisconsin. It is a wonderful time of year. We celebrated with a trip to the apple farm. We found our favorite apple there (the Honey Crisp) and brought a bag home with us. Natalie and Audrey were very good helpers in picking the apples,
 

5 YEARS!

We celebrated our 5th anniversary back in August. Here are some pictures from the night. We went to all our favorite places back in Minnesota; Muffaletta's, Sebastian Joe's, and the remodeled lake Harriet Bandshell, with our bench where I proposed. It is still there with our engraving. We want to buy it from the park. Anybody have any contacts within the MPLS park system? It was a wonderful night with my sweetheart.

Audrey vs. The Oreo

The weather has tuned very pleasant in the past couple of weeks so we have taken to eating dinners outside. The added benefit is that we can just hose down the patio after Audrey is done. 

Audrey's Mobility and Mini-Bats

Just a quick update on the progress of Audrey's mobility. She is crawling now and pulling herself up onto furniture and walking back and forth. I hung up my mini-bat collection. We are making pretty good progress on our goal to visit all the major league ballparks in our lifetime.
 

Natalie's Third Birthday

We celebrated Natalie's 3rd birthday today at Chuck E Cheese. Natalie was afraid of "the chuck" and would not go up to him alone - Not a bite of pizza was eaten by the girls, they were too distracted by the excitement - Audrey puked on Daddy's face into his mouth and nose - Nicky took four 3 year olds to the bathroom... simultaneously - and best of all we were treated to a duet of singing and dancing by "the chuck" and the Chuck E Cheese manager (he can be found getting his groove on in picture on the right--word). It was great!

Garden Veggies have ripened

 

More pictures from our trip to NY

 

Trip to NY

We had a wonderful trip out to NY to visit Omi and Papa and Grandma and Grandpa. Here are some of the highlights. We visited Kirtland on the way out to NY. While in NY we visited most of the church history sights. It was a very inspiring trip


 

Jacobs Field Cleveland

 

Nana and Audrey Noelle

Trip to the Twin Cities.2

We also went to Como Zoo with Allison, Hailey and Taylor Miedema. Natalie had a great time on most of the rides. She couldn’t handle the frog hopper, and had to get off early... it was the zero gravity that got to her.

 

Trip back to the Twin Cities

We made a trip back to the Cities last weekend. It was a great time. We stayed with NANA and went swimming and had dinner at The Old Spaghetti Factory.  

Panorama of the Mississippi