Vacation Time

I wish that vacations would last forever.  Last week, Ron's mom was out of town for the week and because she watches Addie while we work we decided it would be a good week to take some vacation time and hang out around town.

On Monday evening we headed up to Pine City to see Grandpa's new place and take him out to dinner at the Pizza Pub.  We had a good time and Grandpa seemed to really enjoy his time with the kids.

Tuesday was dedicated to the shed project.  Not much fun for me but I did learn to use an HVLP sprayer to paint the shed which was a good time.

Wednesday was another project day, we finished painting Addie's bedroom.  Dark pink and light pink stripes now line her four walls.  Addie says "it's pretty."


Finally Thursday was dedicated to FUN.  For the morning we tooled around Minnehaha Falls in our rented surrey bike and the afternoon was spent at Bunker Hill water park.  We enjoyed an afternoon laying in tubes making our way around the lazy river and got our workout in chasing Addie and Jackson around the pool play area.  Jackson is now really comfortable in the water after taking his swim lessons so he just runs up and down and around the playground.  Ron and I want to be by his side as much as possible so we find ourselves working hard to keep up with him.  Addie is also pretty comfortable in the water experimenting with floating and jumping.

On Friday, Ron and I took turns working.  I worked from home and Ron went into the office while Jackson had swim lessons.  When we could finally close down our computers we were able to have some fun again.

The weekend brought our friends Katie and Jesse and Liam to town.  We had a blast!  We made it out to Little Canada Days, marched in the parade and went to the MN Zoo.

It was a fun-filled week and it was hard to leave the kids again to go back to work!