Our week + Mother's Day

Our sweet boy playing on the deck Monday

Tuesday we had a playdate with the Christoffers and Fedders and ended up running into my mom, sister and youngest brother on his 5th grade field trip.  We tagged along for the second part of his field trip to the zoo.  I was telling Davey how his Grandpa Ellingson milked cows with his dad when he was growing up.  You can tell he's a natural. :)

So fun to be with Zach on his field trip. :)

playing with our neighbor friends

Wednesday we went to "R" is for Raccoon at The Outdoor Campus. :)

Davey did all the puzzles over and over Thursday.

We made thumbprint flower Mother's Day cards for all the grandmas and great-grandmas and got them in the mail Thursday.  Clara's pink, Davey's orange.

never a dull moment :)

Friday we rode bikes and went to the park.

We also finger painted crowns.

:)

Saturday we met my family for supper at BWW to celebrate Billy's birthday. :)

I am so grateful to be their mama!  They came into my room this morning wishing me a Happy Mother's Day in their sweet little voices and Daddy followed with a yummy breakfast. Then they brought me in the world's biggest Mother's Day card they made. :)  So sweet!

We're just going to pretend these two pictures are one really good one. ;)

It's hard to see here but Michael traced them and Clara wrote out their names below where Michael wrote them.  So precious.

I painted Clara's fingernails and toenails tonight...

and she treated me to a mani/pedi for Mother's Day as well... haha :)  Love it.

Baby Shower & Twins Game

We played and played outside every day this past week.  Ahhh, welcome beautiful spring!

We've been getting to know a lot of the neighbor kids.  They are always up for some hide and seek or freeze tag. :)

We had supper outside two days this past week.  It was glorious.

Road trip!  On our way to the cities for my cousin Emily's baby shower and a Twins vs. White Sox game with my brother and sister-in-law.

Ready for the baby shower with my girl!

Loved the decorations. :)

The beautiful mama-to-be herself.  Love you Emily!

These three are just about as cute as they come.  Clara loved playing with her second cousins Mackenzie and Vivian.

Love the Knewtson's!

My boy had lots of fun playing outside and with all the toys as well.

popsicles :)

Dance party!  These girls have some serious moves. ;)

We went swimming at our hotel Saturday night.

We walked to the game Sunday and had to check out the Candyland store as we walked by.

We had our picture taken with Tony Oliva!  He was super sweet and called Davey a ball player. :)  He wanted Clara to sit on his lap too, but poor Clara...  She was so upset here because she is terrified of mascots, etc. when people are dressed up in costumes.  There were some weird looking monster-like cartoon guys walking around right behind the photographer and she wanted to get as far away from them as possible!

Here's Tony Oliva back in the day when he played for the Twins from 1962-1976, his whole impressive career.  This makes me think of my Grandpa Bisson.  He loved watching the Twins play and I'm sure he was a fan of Mr. Oliva.

pictures with the golden glove

They loved the Twins Mickey statue!

And just for fun, here's Clara at her first Twins game on September 6, 2011.  Can't believe it's been that long since we've been to a game, and now we are going to two this year.  Michael is a happy camper.

Billy got a couple White Sox guys to sign his bat.  Here he is with their first base coach Daryl Boston. :)

We got to see Plouffe hit his career first grand slam!

our first Twins game together :)

We had 2nd row seats near 3rd base which was great but the sun was hot!  We brought the kids up to the shade to give them a break from the sun and they both passed out. :)

They put Davey up on the big screen smiling and waving. :)  It was so cute!  I had him reenact it for me so I could get some pictures. :)  He was so sweaty!  Clara was still sleeping at this point.

Walking back to our car.  What a great trip!