and then summer was almost over?!

Well, we were driving and in MN for close to a month, so that's my excuse for not blogging! As usual haven't gotten through the multitude of pictures yet so we're going to just give you a glimpse of what we've been doing in the week we've been back home!

The rest of the summer is pretty open. A couple camps coming up in August for each of the girls and probably more pool and park time. Hopefully some more work on the backyard too! 

Torsten got his first ride in the grocery car, thank you Maggie for letting him have a turn!

Plenty of pool time of course!

And just today this happened......that would be a toilet seat stuck on his head. He looks ready to be a big brother right? Oh yes, that's right, baby #4 is due in November!! 

Speaking of babies, we welcomed another niece to the family last week! Congrats to Josh's brother Seth and wife Kim on baby Harper Mary! Wish we could have met her when we stopped through, but she had other plans, like staying in mama's belly until we were gone. ;) 

Summer's almost here!

Well weather wise summer is definitely here, but Gretta still has 4 days left of school. Maggie finished up last week! We've been spending time at the pool and parks and just looking forward to not having to rush around in the mornings to get to school (at least for a couple months)!

Gretta had pirate day at school....she gave me her best pirate face.

Torsten being a tough guy.

Maggie likes to fight naps most days (or as we call it these days "a rest") but after the fight she's sleeping within minutes! So its obvious that even though she proclaims she is NOT tired, she most certainly is.

Banana boy.

He loves them so!

Maggie's last day with one of her favorite teachers who was retiring.

Dress up fun

Playing Pretty, Pretty Princess while sister was at school!

These 2 got into my makeup....probably not for the last time I'm sure. Gretta actually did a pretty good job so you can barely tell she's wearing any!

Gretta's end of the year performance, so cute!

And this little guy got a big boy haircut! First thing Maggie said was "he looks so handsome, like Matthias!" (their cousin)

Just another day and Mother's Day

Well I'm kind of bouncing all over, realized I never put up Easter but decided to do Mother's Day and other random day to day pictures up for now.....so here you go!

Brother and sister love.

Smoothie lover!

Hiked up the mountain together!

Mr. Daredevil

Western day at school.

We started our backyard renovation!

And everyone has been helping!

Cleared out!

Budding photographers

On our Mother's Day hike.

To the three who made me, mama.....LOVE.

Someone was very tired.

Playing wedding

These girls....more and more I find them happily together enjoying their sisterness!

Happy Monday!

Video!

We are LONG overdue for a video. I forget we don't see people as often even though we've been living out here for 2 and 1/2 years....the kids are doing so many things and we often take video but I totally forget to put it up on here. So here is some fun stuff. Gretta hula hooping, Maggie learned to ride her pedal bike and Torsten is all over the place walking, running, climbing, etc!

I will try to do this more often, especially with how far behind I am with pictures this fits the bill quickly and I can stay far behind....I mean pretend I'm catching up. :)

Here and there and everywhere

Ok, hard drive hiccup is sort of solved, got a new one (I use an external drive for all my pictures) and trying to get stuff transferred and figured out in my photo software. I have Easter pictures somewhere, but for now you get a bunch of randomness! 

More house updates! Here's the house when we first bought it....

We had painted some window trim and the front door a while back and here we started painting the garage trim and front columns.

And finally we painted the garage doors and took out the window design things on the garage windows.

Stay tuned.....we're working on a big yard project!! Hopefully will be completed sometime this summer. So far we've taken out most of our deck in the back with plans for some more grass and a cement patio for a more user friendly backyard. It was all different levels, different decks and some asphalt back there before. Also going to get those crop circles gone from the front soon too! Yippee!

Moving on to the cute stuff....

Grandma Peggy was here and we took a trip up to Mendocino and the Redwoods.

Torsten could have done this all. day. long.

Have a great Tuesday!!