Drive-in movie

Vali-Hi drive in near Lake Elmo

For several years now we haven't wanted to try a drive in movie. I know the bad things like the movies don't get started until dusk which is close to 10pm. But we still wanted to try it! Did you know the gates open at something like 7pm and there is a line?! People back up grills and blankets and footballs and the make a whole night if it! Then they show 3 movies, the first one not starting until 10pm! We almost made it to midnight but had 3 overtired kids who won't give up! It was very fun! Glad we did it and know we know how to proceed differently! 

How to train your dragon 2 from the back of our Volvo! 

 Guessing who loves popcorn?! Who knew? I guess we do now!

picture blog of 7-4-14 fun!

Setting: Pequot Lakes and Merrifield bay : the Grabin 

Celebrating Gia bday with grandma and grandpa Akerson.

 Sleeping in the camper. All the kids had a mysterious 48 hour fever. Gracie got sick a couple times, too. 

Going to fun sisters with Carleen and Claire Rager

Pequot 4th of July parade after the fireman's pancake feed! 

Golf cart ride with grandpa!

The Grabin!

On the gull chain boating with Uncle Joe and Aunt Elizabeth, Cousins and grandma and pa. Gia loved her legs in the water!

No trips up north is complete without a trip to the Chocolate Ox! We biked from the Grabin with uncle Brandon!

 Our ride home sunset on Sunday! We soaked up every minute of our 4 day weekend! We went up early Thursday and stopped in Kimball to get a apple cider press as a gift for grandpa and ma Akerson!

 

Intorducing Max # 9 for the glory prek team

Max is playing soccer again this year. We can see such huge improvements from him! He is lucky to have the assistant coach from last year as a coach this year. There are a few of the same players, too! This is a great sport for him because he loves to run around. He really has some wheels. His second game it had been pouring rain for a few hours and only 6 kids showed up! No chance for sub's so he got to play the whole game. He was goalie the first half. He was really trying! He let a few in but he never gave up!

Gracie's summer T- Ball and Soccer ( minus the soccer)

Robb once told me whatever Max gets to do we need to make sure Gracie and Gia need the option to do. Not only that reason but because she wanted to we signed her up for a summer t -ball and soccer class.

We had a one week break for VBS and totally missed the one day of soccer. She loved VBS. Good thing, too because soccer was what she really wanted to play. Next year all soccer, all the way!

She did really well. The middle class she was very shy and overwhelmed but other than that day she really liked her class. I even got to see a few people we had taken ECFE with previously. 

Georgia Isabel Akerson is 1

Sunday, June 22nd, 2014

My baby.. she is one. 1. This is pure craziness. Most days I can remember that day a year ago so vividly. How can it be a year already?

But the truth is she has been growing and learning so much that she has to be that old.

It was my weekend to work and I requested to have an absent day. That phone call at 4:55 was espeically sweet this morning. I get to spend the day with my baby. Since I was supposed to work there really wasn't any BIG plans. Just a day together. Of course, a cake. We took a trip to target, what birthdays not complete with out a visit there?! Her brother and sister picked out a Minnie Mouse as big as she is and a large bouncy ball purple in color!

At 1, our baby, is so sweet. She is funny and snuggly. She's all over. Up and down stairs, into cupboards and up ladders. Whatever her siblings are doing she thinks she can go along. She loves them, sometimes than others. She is really starting to understand what we are saying and is doing a little bit of signing. Mostly just the sign for all done.

She is "petite" weighing in at just 20lbs! I know that this is not really so little but compared to Max and Grace it is significant. She handled her 3 shots well at her appointment and of course headed home with a stuffed Ty animal from the clinic gift shop. Her chosen puppy is named rootbeer. We will call him 'Rooty'. And most likely Max will adopt him into his pack.

As of July 15th, Gia sprouted her 4th tooth. That makes 4 teeth in the last 4 weeks! 

Max lost a tooth!

We went to the denist in March, I think. The hygenist told me Max's bottom teeth were loose. Last week he got super excited and said that his tooth was very wiggly. I kept making jokes for him to pull it or when we separated for him to not loss it while we were apart.

So what to you know.. the little stinker had a sleep over sunday at his cousins house and Monday with lunch his tooth fell out! Yay! What a fun milestone!

1st teeth!

4 days before the big 1st birthday the first tooth popped through! She always makes it exciting! So fun to see her with a tooth, FINALLY!