Carousels and Butterflies

In the summer, Como Park has a free carousel day every month. My kids (and I) LOVE the carousel and we can't help but visit some of the zoo while we are there. This time we visited the butterflies, the "big monkeys" (per Greyson), and the seals. We also tried to see the new polar bear exhibit but they were having a demonstration of sorts and we couldn't get close enough. Not a big deal since we'll probably be going back again next month. :) Como Park is such an awesome St. Paul attraction!

Summertime Sprinker Fun

Sledding and Snowblowing

These pictures are from a sledding trip to our neighborhood hill (a very large hill!). Although, that was *before* our large snow dump of the past couple of days. The kids had a lot of fun! And we had fun watching them.

The next three pictures are from around the house when we (in reality Ben) went out to snowblow/shovel the first load of Christmas Eve snow from the driveway. As you can see, Mad and Grey have discovered our hill between our house and the next. After this, it continued to snow all night and most of Christmas. It was beautiful to watch coming down! With above freezing temps the rest of that day and sub-freezing temps today, it is now mostly one big block of heavy ice! No snowmen here for awhile!

Just Fun Pictures

Christmas gifts arrived in the box to put under the tree. Once they realized that we weren't going to let them open the gifts, they turned to the next best thing - the box they came in!

We all got a huge kick out of how Greyson found his TRex (apparel provided by Madelyn).

Stop! Bulldozer Time

As we were walking out of church yesterday morning, there was a bulldozer parked near our car. It wasn't a surprise because we are having a pretty big addition being built on our church. However, I still thought it funny that it was parked in spot along with other cars and that everyone was walking past it in their Sunday garb like it was normal. So, I did what came naturally to me - I took a picture to capture it.

6th folder, 6th picture

If I take what my friend, Tracy, says to be true, a challenge on the blogsphere lately is to post the sixth picture of the sixth folder on your harddrive. Well, here it is.... This is Madelyn on May 1, 2006 at a local Chinese buffet trying on a lab tech's glasses. I couldn't help but post it!