Happy Birthday, Snickers!

Snickers, the world's best dog, turns nine today!  She is such a sweet part of our family (except when she's digging in the garbage or pulling friendship bread starter off the counter-top).  

And here is the birthday dog with her new friend, Isabella :-)

Happy birthday, Snickers!  We love you tons and stay off the bed!

They're Coming!!!

Hordes of middle school students are coming in just a few hours.....hide while there's still time.....

Back To Normal

Yesterday was the first day, since I got home from the Boundary Waters, that I felt like I was back on schedule here at home. It took a whole week to recover from being gone five days! I'm a little concerned about how long it will take me to get back to normal after going to Scotland for eight days. Not only will I be gone longer, but I will have jet lag to deal with! Yikes!

Raelea Quote of the Day

Before even getting out of bed, Raelea uttered these words: "Can we go somewhere where you get wrist bands, or at least name tags?"

Hmm, I don't think going to the park is going to satisfy her today.

BWCA 2

Because I, personally, never tire of talking about the Boundary Waters or looking at pictures from there AND because I promised you all a second post about our trip, here it is :-)

This post will be all about WHAT we did while we were there...in no particular order...

We do some of this

And we picked and ate some of these...

We found time to do this...

At night we would play a rousing game of Sticks (think spoons in the wilderness where spoons are in short supply, but sticks are plentiful).  It should be noted that sticks, unlike spoons, sometimes turns into a wrestling match over the last stick.

After every meal, Kara did this...

We did a lot of this, although usually everyone was facing the correct way.

We did some of this...

And lots of this...

We had the perfect rock to do this on...

And then there was more of this...

We liked to do this, especially when it meant passing around the candy bag :-)

That's what we DID.  Here are a few things we did NOT do:

Shower

Use a bathroom that had walls

Look in a mirror

Answer a phone

check out Facebook

Change clothes (underwear excepted)

Go to the gym to workout

Drink cold anything

Complain (not allowed!)

Use a phone (cell or otherwise)

iThingy

Lovin' our new iThingy :-)

Although you can't tell it from the picture, they are all sitting around doing flash cards on the iThingy :-)

Blueberries Fear Us

Despite the somewhat rainy conditions yesterday, we put a dent in the blueberry population at Rush River Produce.  Once again, I can't say enough about this place.  It is WELL worth the hour plus drive from the cities, as these are the best blueberries I've ever tasted.  If you're going to pick this year though you'll need to go soon.  The owners told us they are 80% picked already.

Everyone got involved in the picking...

And here are the victims, all ten pounds of them...(most of which are already stored away in my freezer)