Our Trip Home

Well, I hope you like pictures! We've had a busy week or so traveling to see family. We started with visiting Colin, Stacey and Ellie in Wisconsin. It was Ellie's baptism and we were thrilled to be godparents and to get to spend some time with them again.

Here are the boys and their little cousin.


Grandma and Grandpa with the kids.


Aunt Stacey giving rides ;)



Uncle Colin and Brendan racing through the sprinklers while Aiden warmed up.



The beautiful family before the service started - Ellie catching a few zzz's.



Ellie with the bonnet and dress made by Grandma.



I wish I had a better picture of this... Brendan fell in love with Stacey's sister Sara. He couldn't get enough of her and she is awesome with kids! He has been calling her "Aunt Sara" since we came home. Here they are working on a puzzle.


After the baptism, we headed up to St. Jacques for a couple days. Here's Brendan picking blueberries at Uncle Levi and Aunt Lindsey's.


And then we went in the garage...Uncle Levi is super cool and has a drumset. The boys had tons of fun making "music".


The "music" was a little loud so cousin Max and Grandma Donna hung out in the yard.


Us with cousin Max - hmmm... this is what we'd look like with another boy!


Aiden handing Uncle Ashley his empty beer bottle.


Aunt Lindsey has a couple cute bunnies to feed.

I had to include this one - if you've watch Spongebob at all, you'll get it. Aiden took a couple bites of green bean and this is what happened - Plankton!


One of the many rides the kids went on while visiting.


Uncle Ashley arrived from Alaska after the baptism and we were able to spend some time with him. Brendan hadn't seen him in several years and Aiden had never met him so it was a great time.


Aiden was up early almost every day. Here he is hanging out with cousin Max.


Then, we moved our travels to Gulliver to see Grandma Martha and Grandpa Wayne. The lake and all the boats are very popular with the boys. Here are some pics of the kids and the paddle boat. Brendan can reach the pedals if we scoots way down.




Here's Aiden going for a canoe ride when we were looking for a cool stump to bring back for our aquarium. He had this thing about wearing the swim goggles all the time!


Pulling some carrots for dinner.


The paddle boat and canoe are cool, but bring on the motor boat! Better yet when Grandpa lets them drive.




Two of the evenings the weather was nice enough for bonfires. The boys loved making smores.



The last day it was cloudy and rainy, but we did get an early start and get some fishing in before the weather got too bad. The fishing was great for kids - we could hardly get the hook in the water before there was another fish on it. Of course, nothing was over three inches, but they didn't care ;) My mom even snagged a little one.

Look - No Training Wheels!!

I had to add this video tonight - it's Brendan's first time without his training wheels and not on the grass at the park! He did awesome and didn't want to come in at all - luckily it was a nice night so a lot of the neighbors were out to cheer him on.



I've added some other video clips of the kids to youtube that can be seen by typing "our2buzyboys" into the keywords.

Summer's Winding Down

The past few weeks have busy around here. Wellyn has changed locations where he works - still the same company, but new site and new project. Unfortunately, it's double the commute time, but a job is a job... Next year they should be moving into a new building which will be a little closer. The new project has brought overtime with it, which has also been a change. Most importantly, Wellyn likes the people he's working with and is getting to do what he wants - project management.

Last week Brendan had vacation bible school at his old preschool. It was even more fun as almost all his friends from daycare went too. They crammed tons of fun into three hours each day and had lots of art and projects to bring home every day. The end of the week and weekend brought the stomach flu for him so that wasn't as much fun...

I opened the blinds in our room last week and saw this red-tailed hawk sitting on our deck. I'm sure I emailed the pictures to about everyone I know, but here they are again - just in case you missed them ;) I took tons of pictures and kept waiting for it to fly away, but it just stayed there for over an hour. Aiden banged on windows, I opened blinds in the kitchen right by it, it seemed content to just sit there even though so much was going on it the house. The cats never noticed it, but every time they walked by the windows or patio doors it puffed up and got very intent. We ended up leaving to get Brendan from bible school before it left.





On Friday, our nephew Bryce came for a visit from WI. He was in time for lunch and a tour of Wellyn's company. After that they headed to some computer center that apparently has "amazing" deals. That night was when Brendan came down with the stomach flu so we didn't do too much the rest of the evening. They were up bright and early playing legos though!


And then we put him to work helping on the shed area.


Brendan, with a little more dirt on the shovel than he can handle.


Bryce coming to the rescue.


Finishing off the retaining wall that will be behind the shed.


Aiden was very serious about shoveling dirt into his wheelbarrow.


Saturday night we went downtown to eat and walk around to get a look at the new Twin's stadium that is being built. There was a UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship ??) fight in town at the Target Center so we walked over to see how much tickets were - the cheapest were $52, the best were $600 - yeah, we kept on walking... We went to the Stone Arch Bridge and had some ice cream - a bargain at $5 for all three of us! From the bridge you can see the 35W bridge that is being rebuilt from last year's collapes as well as the old flour mills. There are locks by the bridge and we say them drain and open to allow a small boat in to be raised up. Overall, a very cool time.