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We took a short family getaway weekend to Two Harbors and Gooseberry Falls State Park. Isabelle had never been to the north shore, I thikn she was pretty impressed with the scenery and the waterfalls.

After we hiked around the park we started a fire and roasted some hotdogs and made some smores.

Isabelle loves rocks. I dont know why but she likes to collect them, paint them or just throw them in the water. Needless to say the rocky beaches of Lake Superior were a lot of fun for her. The rocks were so fine on this beach that she made a rock angel...

After our Gooseberry Falls fun we spent some time walking around the harbor at Two Harbors.

Our hotel had a mini golf course and Isabelle thought it was a bunch of fun. She has been coming with me to the driving range and putting green a little bit this summer and might be gaining a little interest in golf. We got her a putter and a driving iron that she can use to practice around our house...

Without question Isabelle's favorite activity during our mini vacation was jumping from one bed to the other in our hotel room. After being told not to several times she finally went over the other side and  bonked her eye on a chair. She acted pretty tough and just kept going....



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Isabelle got a haircut! Her long and beautiful, yet terribly messy and hard to manage hair was shortened significantly. I think it looks adorable short.

We took our first trip to target field as a family. It was Isabelle's first baseball game. The Twins didnt priovide an exciting per performance but Isabelle was impressed with the all the snacks and face painting.



Our little garden is providing some big results already this year, we have a freezer full of zuchinni and green beans and have been eating as much as we can. Sophie has enjoyed having a carrot factory in the backyard as well. Pretty soon we will be picking apples and pears from the trees.

We took a weekend trip to Grandpa Steve's family cabin on Norway Lake in Pine River, MN. Once again isabelle had a blast fishing from the dock, eating smores and taking boat rides.

The City sponsored a movie in the park and the neighborhood kids got together and played carnival games, ate popcorn and watched The Lorax. It was a beautifual cool evening, almost cold.

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We watched a 4th of July parade by Auntie Stacy's house in Coon Rapids. Isabelle is a big fan of parades, mostly because of the candy!

Along with a parade comes a carnival. We missed the Rogers carnival this year so Isabelle was very excited to hit her favorite ride...the dragon roller coaster. She also rode the merry go round, ferris wheel and the tilta-whirl with Mom and Auntie.

We celebrated the 4th of July with some fireworks at the neighbors house.

Isabelle is still a pretty crafty little girl. She has a big imagination and loves to create things. We went to home depot and built a craft. This weeks craft was a car from the movie Dispicable Me 2. We went and watched the movie the night before the craft day and Isabelle loved it.

Cooking is an important part of Isabelle's play time and parent time. She is really interested in food and has a lot of fun playing restaurant with her toy food. She will write a fake menu, take your order and bring you the food, I like it quite a bit. She also has a blast in the actual kitchen, we made these cute little sugar cookies that look just like cheeseburgers....

We met our friends the Kachman's at the Maple Grove Day parade. We ate fried chicken and waited forver for the parade to start. It was without a doubt the slowest and longest parade I have ever been around, 120 floats and we left well after bedtime with over half of the parade left to go. Nevertheless Isabelle had a blast.



We were hanging out on our patio when we heard the music of the ice cream truck for the first time. It appeared to be getting louder and Isabelle got more and more excited...eventually we found it, speeding away from us. Isabelle was totally crushed watching the truck drive away....30 minutes later it came back and we were more successfull the second time around.

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We have a really fun summer! In fact we have been so busy that I havent be able to blog very often. I am going to do a series of four posts to get us caught up.

We had a bunch of fun weekends to our cabin on Lake Osakis. It was a cold slow spring but June turned out to be pretty nice. Isabelle continues to really enjoy fishing. She stays in the boat longer than I thought she would and she always wants to go fishing off of the dock. I just cant get enough fish or fishing picture of her.

We brought our friends the Ohme's up for a weekend and had a great time.

Isabelle played soccer again this year. I got the job of being a head coach this year, instead of just an assistant coach last year. She had a lot of fun but was got a little bored with it at the end of the season. Gymnastics start up again soon and we will see if she wants to play soccer again next year.

Uncle Kyle rented a gigantic water slide for Blayne's birthday party. The kids had a blast going up and down the slide. I actually went down the slide a few times and as I type this almost 2 months later my elbow still hurts a little.

Isabelle likes going to the farmers market in Rogers...mostly because they have an ice cream vendor.



More fishing pictures...I really cant get enough. We had a great summer fishing sunfish, northerns and walleyes. Isabelle spent a few nights in the boat with Pappa and me fishing walleyes until dark. She really had a blast and didnt whine very much at all.