Day One Hundred Sixty-Five: Max to Sam

This is little (well, to me) Max, waving to his big cousin Sam going out on the field at his baseball game.

Day One Hundred Sixty-Four: My Four

Today was action packed. Stefanie and I dropped Josie and Max off at Sam's game. We then went to the Excelsior Art Fair. Stefanie got some fabulous "sculpture" pieces for an area in the front of her house.

We then met up with everyone at Dairy Queen. On to Camp Teko orientation day for Stef, Josie, Max and me.......the camp is on something like 280 acres on Lake Minnetonka, so it was quite the hike!

We then went back to my son's house. First there was rocket launching in the park, and a bar-b-que and ball playing.

A great day, very tired kids! And I couldn't resist this picture of 4 crazy kids at DQ!

Day One Hundred Sixty-Three: Badge of Honor

The kids are in town! I was so excited to see them.

This morning my daughter called from Iowa to say I should go looking at garage sales for a bike for Josie. I have a 16" bike in the garage she rode last year. But I guess she now is riding a 20". Stefanie thought I should find a 20" for here, and Max could have the 16" (he wasn't riding yet).

So I jumped into my car at 8:30 this morning, and went in search of garage sales. There weren't that many that I could find. One easy thing is all I had to do was to drive by, see no kids bikes in front and drive off.

Finally, I found one. It was a beauty. Bright pink, bought at a good bike store and only rode about 8 times (according to the mother). She didn't know what size it was but thought is was 20". It looked huge to me, and Josie is a very little 6 year old, but I bought it anyway.

Well, it's not a 20", but Josie learned to ride it right away. And Max learned to ride the 16" immediately.....pretty good for a 4 year old!

I thought my picture of the day was definitely going to be the two of them riding. But Josie fell, got a teensy cut and insisted on a band-aid. It had to be a Dora band-aid, and a special Mermaid Dora.

Once she was back outside on her bike, she insisted I take a picture of the band-aid, which I had told her was a badge of honor. And I realized that must be the picture of the day!

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Day One Hundred Sixty-Two: Going Up to Bat

Another game, another great kid, great plays!

Day One Hundred Sixty-One: The Countdown Begins

My daughter and kids come on Friday night for five weeks. The kids will go to summer camp.

So my dh has begun getting ready.....first for him is cleaning out the garage (isn't that always what men clean?).

Day One Hundred Sixty: Lake Minnetonka as it Should Be

It's June but not warm this week. So I knew it would be a great time to find all the sailboats moored at the Yacht Club.

The water was so calm. This is the real Lake Minnetonka! Not the ice and snow that covers it 9 months of the year.