Halloween

Willa wanted to be a family of monsters for Halloween this year. Introducing Medusa, a vampire, a zombie...and the dentist who killed the lion.

 

 

Land art

For our family movie, we watched "Rivers and Tides," a documentary about artist Andy Goldsworthy. Inspired by his work, we decided to create some land art of our own.

Pet News

In pet news, the cat has started playing fetch with us, the guinea pigs are doing mazes, the dog is herding the children, and the fish are doing nothing.

Zzzzzzzz....

Tired Willa.

Half-Haunted Halloween

We did the Half-Haunted Halloween Trail at Wood Lake Nature Center again. The girls had a great time with their friends Katie and Ava!

Minnesota's Largest Candy Store

The girls aren't having any fun at all on their break from school.

Harvest Hoedown at Gale Woods Farm

Dancing, hay bale leaping, cider pressing, star gazing, and s'more toasting. Jia's favorite night of the entire year.

Fire Ants

Go Fire Ants!

Jia's soccer season came to a close tonight. Her coach said she has coached a lot of teams and loved that these girls had no drama and just supported each other. It was truly a great group of kids. They worked very hard and really came together at the end. 

What's next

Jia, at bedtime, talking about next year: "Middle school is when kids go through puberty. They can get crabby. Sorry in advance."

Mystery Cave

We visited Mystery Cave today...some bats were already inside hibernating! The girls' faves from our trip? Jia: our cool hotel, the bike ride, and the pie shop. Willa: the cave, the jacuzzi in our room, and spending time with family.

Root River Trail

Under cobalt blue skies, we saved countless woolly bear caterpillars from certain demise on the Root River trail. We also met the world's friendliest bikers, played at two parks, ate blubarb and other yummy kinds of pie, and were photographed and interviewed by the Rochester Post-Bulletin!