25 things

In honor of February 25th I'll post 25 things thoughts about what's been going on in the Carter household. For those of you hoping for photos, I'll have to warn you that there won't be any. Our camera has something going on with it and we haven't been taking many pictures.

1. Successful dinner out at Duluth Grill with the Laderman/Torres family! The boys were fabulous and the girls were occupied. Yeah for a Friday night dinner out with adult conversation!

2. What's up with Wisconsin's Governor Walker? We in Minnesota only 10 minutes away from Wisconsin are shaking our heads.

3. I had a great week at work. Thank you Pomodoro Technique! And it helps that I love my job.

4. I "heart" Parenthood.

5. Ice cold beer. And I mean "ice" cold. So cold the bottle frosts over (what really happened is we left a 12 pack of bottled beer on the porch is zero degree weather. Oops. We were able to salvage 3.5 bottles).

6. UMD men's hockey game next weekend. Can't wait for our visitors to get here.

7. I must say that George Washington was a man with interesting personality & character attributes (flaws?). I've been thinking about him a lot while I've been reading Washington: A Life by Chernow.

8........oh, what was I thinking. I'm tired and ready for bed.

Goodnight!

A relaxing Sunday

I consider the weekend a success if we get two things done: laundry and grocery shopping. We're too busy and tired on week nights to do these chores so we leave them for the weekend.

This weekend however Clay and I did all the laundry and grocery shopping on Friday night. We had a wedding to go to on Saturday and we wanted to make sure we got everything done so we wouldn't have to worry about getting it done all on Sunday.

Saturday we drove 238 miles down to Stewartville, MN for a family wedding. We had a fun time seeing Clay's family and attending our first Baha'i wedding ceremony. Bea and the boys enjoyed dancing and the candy bar. The boys even enjoyed scooting around on the floor with the rest of the kids. We drove back that night.

Sunday was a beautiful relaxing day. Everybody slept in. Pancakes for breakfast. Mac & cheese for lunch. All three kids napped at the same time. Bliss.

In the afternoon, Clay took all three kids out for a walk in the woods while I made chicken pot pie.


We don't normally dress the boys alike but when you have matching identical Adidas sweat suits it must be done. Also, note Bea carrying her doll Alexander in a sling and her skirt under a dress look with the ladybug boots. Gotta love four year old fashion.

The kids in a bunch of leaves.

Bea buried under a pile of leaves. Tick check time. ;\

Simon & Bea swinging. Simon cried and cried when it was Ollie's turn. Some cheddar bunnies calmed him down.:)

Moo Baa La La La

Sorry for not keeping up to date on the posts. I have a big backlog of photos to post to flickr, but I hope this will hold you over until then.

Tadpole Hunt

B's preschool was in need of tadpoles for their aquarium, so we volunteered to look for some in our pond.

We invited B's best friend and her family over to help us out and the girls had a fantastic time playing together.



Creatures found included snakes, tadpoles, dragonfly nymphs & giant water bugs.



The boys enjoyed some time in the sun and grass.



I think all the adults had fun wading into the pond.



To see more pictures of our tadpole hunt visit http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=pond%202010&w=17038679%40N00