Blog Posts Are Coming Soon!

I have several ideas for blog posts, some are even saved in draft-mode with photos (!) attached.  Hopefully I will get around to writing them soon.  We have actually been quite busy over the last few weeks.  I hope my blog followers haven't given up on me yet!  Stay tuned!

This One is a Framer!!

I double-triple heart this photo oh-so-much!!

Hope to get back into blogging soon....for now, this will have to tide my loyal readers (ha) over!

Up North

A couple weekends ago, we ventured up north to visit my parents. We had not been "up north" since Thanksgiving! Oops. It was just difficult to get up there during the winter, since we never knew what the weather would bring. It worked out for us to take an extra day off so we could make it a 3 day weekend. We went up on Friday morning and came back Sunday evening. We had a nice, relaxing visit. We didn't do too much but Cody LOVED being at Grandma and Grandpa's house. So much to see & do for little boys!

He was SO grumpy the whole time, can't you tell?! 

  (If you haven't realized, this couldn't be further from the truth!)

One of the highlights of the trip was taking a ride on Grandpa's new toy, an Arctic Cat Prowler!  I'm not really sure of all the benefits of this contraption, but it basically looks like a glorified-four-wheeler to me!  (Sorry!)  Grandpa, Gordon and Cody went on two different rides, each of which were pretty lengthy and adventuresome.  Cody loved the ride and from what I understand, stayed perfectly still on Gordon's lap.    

We had pretty good weather during our visit, but the bugs.  Oh, the bugs.  I seriously do not remember them being that bad before.  I could barely stand to be outside.  Mosquitos, sandflies, and bullflies - OH MY!  We tried taking a walk one night (a walk on the ROAD!  Cody thought that was so neat.) but we didn't get too far - the sandflies and mosquitos were eating us alive!!

Gordon and I had a little break one night and drove into town to see "Shrek 3".  We weren't impressed.  Neither of us liked it and it really wasn't very funny.  Did any of you see it?  We were considering bringing Cody, but we were really glad we didn't.  It was kind of a dark movie!

My mom and I even did a little bit garage saling on Saturday morning!  Thanks to the guys for baby-sitting.  We didn't find much, but I did get a Doctor Kit for Cody and he has really been enjoying it.  He really "gets" it.  He's also learned the name of his eye doctor...Dr. P!  Hopefully we can impress her the next time we go in.

We were able to visit with Great G'ma Anderson, so that was nice.  I didn't get any pictures this time, but hopefully when we go up next time, we can take some.

Here's a couple of other random photos for the weekend.  We had a good, relaxing time.  We'll be going up again soon!

Wildlife

This spring, we've been enjoying watching a bit of wildlife out our windows. We have noticed that a family of fox (foxes?) has made their home under a pile of lumber in the farmer's pasture directly behind our house. We saw two fox this winter galavanting through the snow....and this spring, what do we see but what appears to be the same two fox and....BABIES!! Gordon claims he saw 4-5 babies! Here's a picture Gordon snapped the other night. (Click to enlarge) Aren't they cute?

We feel so fortunate to live in an area where we can see a bit of wildlife right out of our windows. It is really the best of both worlds...in only a matter of seconds, we can drive through wooded areas and farmland...and in a matter of minutes, can be in the middle of shopping and restaurants.

We're blessed.

eBay

Did you know that I've been a seller on eBay since 1999? Isn't that crazy - over 10 years!!! I still love it, but for some reason...the last couple of years...I haven't been selling much. Gee, I wonder why :)

I did manage to get a few items listed tonight. I think you should peruse my wares! If you bid on and win something, and I know you, I'll give you free shipping! Wahoooo!

I have bins-upon-bins of stuff to sell, but what I'm lacking is time and motivation. Still, if I can sell a few things here and there, it gives me some fun money and there's nothing wrong with that!

Choo-Choo Ride

What a great Memorial Day weekend! We immensely enjoyed our 3-day weekend and I have lots to blog about, but I wanted to get this post up tonight while it's fresh in my mind.

After breakfast on Sunday morning, we headed to the Elk River train station to catch the Northstar Commuter Rail down to Target Field. We rode down which takes about 45-50 minutes, were there for 20 minutes, and then got right back on the train and headed home. It was something fun & different to do. Cody LOVED the train!!! He sat SOOOO good too, especially on the way down. We were pretty proud of him!

As you can see in the photo below, we have become one of THOSE parents....we got a leash ...err, harness, for Cody :O This was Gordon's idea but it may be helpful if/when we got to Disney and State Fair. I don't want to use it a lot ~ someone made a mean comment to us about it :( I tried not to let it ruin my day but I kept thinking about it. Oh well. We just want him to be safe & stick close to us. We just call it his backpack and he really likes it. One of the shows Cody sometimes watches has a backpack as a recurring theme/thing, so we say it's like Dora's backpack and he really thought it was cool then.

Anyway....back to the train....

One of the workers for the train offered to take the picture of all of us - wasn't that nice?

And....they also let Cody sit in the engineer's seat!!!! Isn't that sweet??? :) They suggested it and I don't think Cody knew what to think but at least we got a photo! Heh. I'm sure Grandpa Hart will get a kick out of this post as he enjoys trains.

Our final destination was Target Field, the new home of the Minnesota Twins. We're planning on going to a baseball game in a couple weeks, and I am so excited about it! Watch for us...we'll be in the second row from the top. Oy! Tickets are really hard to find.

Cody was pretty tired out on/after the train...I think it was lulling him to sleep! I must say that it was a really smooth ride and very relaxing.

Finally, here is a little video I took on our way home. I know that I am biased, but it was too cute not to share. I swear that he said "See you tomorrow!" after saying bye to to the trains outside. What do you think? At any rate, I hope you enjoy.

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Sometimes I wish this blog wasn't so public.  I have many things that I feel like I need to "get out of my system" today, but I know this isn't the place to do so.  Actually, just writing these statements down helps a little.