Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! We have had a great week kicking off 2018 with a great start! On New Years Eve we went over to our neighbors and dear friends Erik and Angela's house to celebrate. Our good friends Shane and Anna Long also came to celebrate. We had 12 of kids total between us and they all had a blast together! We ate good food and played some fun minute to win it games with the kids. 

We are thankful for family and dear friends. It was a great time to celebrate 2017 and kick off 2018! My parents came over at 8pm so that we could bring the kids home for bed and then we were able to go back and have some adult time conversation.

The kids loved blowing in the New Year!

Sweet Greta

Good morning!

We have been undergoing some bathroom remodels. The downstairs shower is done! What a difference! The upstairs bathroom will be done next week!

We love our fires in our back woods!

This past Tuesday we took the boys to the Science Museum for the first time! They loved it!

Here they are telling the forecast =)

On Thursday it was the perfect day to go to the Mall of America. We took the family to the Sea Life Aquarium, had lunch at the Rain Forest Cafe, played at Legoland, and finished off with a Carousel ride.

Jellyfish!

Asa is always moving, hence why he is a bit blurry in this picture.

Stingrays.

Greta loves it when I paint her nails!

Yesterday we checked out the Ham Lake library for the first time. It is only about 5 minutes from us.

Eli and Asa love playing with the big Nerf guns they got for Christmas.

Bless Asa, sometimes he will play house with Greta. She loves to pretend that he is her baby. =)

Coloring!

Sleeping beauty 

Story time is the best time.

Andrew and Diem came to visit this week, what a fun time!

Neighbor Hans plays well with my boys.

Happy Asa!

Joyful Eli!

Lately Greta's favorite thing to do is to sit and play with her pretend coffee set from Papa and Nana. She loves it when I sit at her table with her and she makes me some coffee.