The Mall

We had a great long weekend. When I say great I mean it was filled with lots of family time, the weather wasn’t great, but we made the most of itJ

We spent the majority of the weekend at the lake.

Saturday morning we did some shopping downtown Clear Lake and had a great time. On Saturday afternoon we ran into Mason City and did some more shopping with the cold and rainy weather there wasn’t a whole of other options, which of course was okay with us.. we like to shopJ

Saturday evening Jake and I went to a movie and the girls got to stay with Mimi and Grandpa and they had a great time playing and of course.. getting ice cream.

Sunday when we woke up the weather was still pretty bad so we decided to make the short drive up to Mall of America and play at the amusement park they have at the mall.

It was a great trip.  Char had so much fun on the rides, but of course she was mad that she couldn’t do more of the rides herself and when I would have to ride with her, she would get mad at me if I would laugh or scream, she would tell me no talking!!

We did a lot of the rides during Charlee’s normal nap time so of course she got really tired and right before she was about to fall asleep her dream came true, she got to meet Dora and she had a wonderful time and walked right up to her and told her “Nice to meet you” And then you couldn’t get her to stop talking about seeing Dora!

Monday we were able to get out on the boat for a short boat ride. It was cold but it felt great to be out on the water! Char had a great time on the boat and even got to drive for a bit, but of course always wanted to go faster.

Monday afternoon Charlee and I came home early so she could take a nap in her own bed, that weekend had worn her out. We had a great evening of playing outside and we got to go over to Amy and Brian’s to meet baby Gavin. It was a wonderful weekend.

We had a great weekend!! Friday night the girls got to play outside until well after dark, that's a BIG deal in the summer time:) and they got to play with great friends!

Saturday morning we woke up and did the heart walk and then hung out around the house and got our garden all planted. It was a great Saturday spend with LOTS of great friends, including the Kleigl boys, where we got out the water.. and charlee would get upset any time her clothes got wet... after the fourth outfit we fixed all the problems by just going NAKED!

Sunday we went to the Spring Fling for Z and it was so much fun!! and Char loved trying out the equipment and being on the "other side" of the window!

Watching her sister at the Spring Fling gymnastics meet!

Jumping on the trampoline at Gymnastics

At the Heart Walk

Running around naked in the backyard:)

Sprinklers and writting letters

The weather has been touch and go this spring so we spent some time yesterday when it was 100 to playout side in the sprinkler, of course it was much to windy and the girls decided rather quickly that it was to cold.

Charlee is in LOVE with her little cousin Wes.. and this week Mimi and Grandpa are out in Washington to see baby Wes and have been sending us pictures of him.. so Charlee wanted to write him a letter..

This is the final product from her hard work!

Charlee hard at work, putting a lot of love into her letter

Best cheerleader EVER

With the nice spring weather that we have been having Charlee has been spending a lot of time at the soccer field and she does a great job of watching from the sidelines and trying to do what the big kids are doing with mom and dad. She has a great kick!!

She always gets a little sad when the kids get to put on the pennies to scrimmage, and last weekend Zoey's coach noticed and said that she could wear one as well.. she was in heaven..... as you can see its just a little bit big, but she didn't let that stop her at all!