Haircut sprouty

This poor little guy sweats horribly in the heat.  We honestly should buzz his hair but I’m not quite at that point yet.  His new haircut courtesy of Daddy and the clippers turned out better than expected.  Next time it’ll be perfect! ;)

Birthday Party fun

We had Jackson & Lauren’s birthday party today. Lauren has asked for a friend party so that lucky girl is getting two celebrations this year. I didn’t make the cakes, a friend of mine did as she is just starting a cake decorating business.  I did however, make the cookies and the rest of the food.

Here we are seeing how many kids you can fit into our fun playhouse.   It was a lot!!  We were super excited that our old friends (who moved to Chicago 3 years ago now) were in town and could make it to the party.  We sure do miss them.

This photo accurately describes Lauren and Jackson’s hot/cold relationship. 

They both received a bunch of fantastic gifts and had a good time playing with their friends.

Hulk smash!!!             Jack and Great Grandpa Jack had a fun time shooting arrows in the house.

Happy Anniversary

All of our babysitters are gone on vacation right now, so we brought the kids out to dinner with us.  I meant to have someone take a family photo but totally forgot.

The turtle races

I lived in Windom for my entire life and never participated in the turtle races.  It’s hard to find a turtle.  This year, I thought we’d find one for sure as I remembered to start looking a couple of weeks in advance (instead of a couple days like usual.) No luck!  However, a kind friend offered to let us “borrow” one of their turtles (since they run the race in multiple heats.)  It worked out perfectly (minus the craptacular weather of which we were ill-prepared for.)

It’s almost time…..                                                                         Go turtle go!!!!

Jack was not as impressed with the turtle and dropped him. Poor abused little guy!

Being dropped may have had something to do with the speed in which he traveled.  He was a slow turtle during his first two races, but during his 3rd and final race he was speedy gonzales and lost by just a nose.

You can see here it was quite the exciting race as Kevin is mid-cheer in this pic.  But, alas, it was not meant to be.  Maybe next year!  It was about this time that we learned that the parade was cancelled for the evening and everything was washed out due to the rain. :(  I guess we should have gone out last night, huh?

Riverfest Fun run

Lauren ran the 1 mile race this morning.  It was a very small group running the one mile.  This is the longest distance yet for beanitude but she did it!

Yaaay we did it.  OOps I didn’t realize my hand was in front of Lauren’s face.

Then, it was time for the wacky races.

Riverfest

We headed to Windom for the weekend to celebrate Riverfest.  The kids (and daddy) did some hardcore playing at the park before fireworks.

last year                                                                                                    this year

(I just thought it was funny as I was basically wearing the same sweatshirt as last year, love my scuba hoodies!!) PS I like last year’s hair color better, lol!

We enjoyed the fireworks with Michael (as we typically do) and agreed that we were too tired to go out on Friday night and would go out on Saturday night instead.  Big mistake, never put off fun until tomorrow when you can have it today.

Last day of kindergarten

1st day on the left/ last day on the right

I couldn’t resist this one!

Lauren with her BFF (and our neighbor) Rosie.

Happy National Running Day

I took the bean out for a run with me tonight in celebration of national running day.  She insisted upon the headband and my amphipod for when she was thirsty.

Bakin’ with the beanitude

 

I wish my ipad had a self timer for photo taking. I can’t even remember what we were baking here, I need to do a better job of keeping this up to date.

13 years?

I just noticed that the other pic was taken in August of 2000 back when we were young…. I had to take Jess out for a night on the town (‘kato style) to celebrate her completing her masters degree! Go Jess! Sometimes it feels like I haven’t gone out with her since the previous photo was taken, we need to hang out more often!