Max and Charlie

Max and the Bear

Grace and Claire

Reid taking a nap

Forest Fire

I am sure everyone has heard about the forest fire near Grand Marais. As some of you know and some of you may not, my brother Matthew and sister in-law Theresa both work up there for the U.S. Forest Service. Matthews station is the Seagull guard station, at the center of the action. Theresa is stationed in Tofte right now, doing double duty days.
You may have already guessed, they are extremely busy right now.
This is a picture of my brothers truck, near the Seagull Outfitters. They were trying to save the lodge.
I would like to ask everyone to keep them in your thoughts and prayers that they stay safe.
The Mpls Star & Trib as some incredible photos of the fire.
Click here to see them!

My weekend with the Lemke's

Hi everyone!!
I spent last weekend with the Lemke kids while
Mom & Dad went to Las Vegas.
We had a great time!!
The weather was wonderful so we spent a lot of time outside.
We had quite a schedule to follow Wednesday night through Friday afternoon, with school and dance, and preschool.
I did manage to keep them on schedule, except when we missed Grace's bus on Friday morning.
It is very entertaining following directions from a 1st grader whose landmarks are McDonalds and CVS Pharmacy.
But we made it, a little late, after a tour of a couple neighborhoods that Grace swears
"I've never been in this area in my life!"
By Friday afternoon we where all ready to relax
and have some real fun!!!!!
Cousin Megan came over, we spend some time at the park going wild.
When the natives decided they were hungry we went out to dinner at Ruby Tuesdays. We had a lot of fun there. Grace told us all about our personal bubbles, and shared Megan's with her. She totally has the leaning habit just like Megan did when she was younger.
We then headed home, where we retired to the "CAVE" to watch Shrek. The gang stayed up pretty late. So there was some sleeping in on Saturday.
K2 showed up Saturday afternoon, and we all went to the Baker Park Reserve to play. All of us were exhausted by the time we went home. We had pizza for dinner,
had baths and hit the beds a little early.
Sunday was spent at the house just hanging out.
I had a great time with the kids, they are all getting so big. Grace is such a huge help, I don't know what I would do without her.

Grace and Max spent some time together on the tire swing with Megan standing by for a push when needed.
Thanks for hanging with us Fri. and Sat. Megan.

As you can see Grace is a natural on the jungle gym.
And even though Sam told Megan her butt was too big for the slide she played along with them anyway.