DAVE DAY!!

Well the day finally arrived, a day I had been waiting for since the day I bought the tickets. Dave Matthews came to MN finally!~! What a wonderful group of family/friends that went along for the journey!! Love all of these people! and we all share a love for DMB!!!

Here we are on the way to the concert!!!

Us girls out at the ranch waiting for the main show! I have to say, none of us knew what to expect at the 10KLF as we have never attened the festival before, but it was amazing. Everyone was pretty tame and just loved the music that was being played on all stages! Stef and I had plans to see him together about 4 years ago, but Brad ended up being my date. So glad she was able to be there this time!!!!

Dave on stage! We ended up with great spots to stand during his concert!!! Closest any of us had been to the stage when seeing him. In the past at his concerts we are pretty close to the back and he looks like an ant! Not this time!!! In the future, we will be seeing him outdoors!

More Dave on Stage!!! Gotta love it! Here is Matty, Amber and myself during the concert! What a great night it was out there!


Sporting our new shirts we bought after the concert!!! Don't you just love our pose! hahah

Post concert Nachos at Zorbaz! Yumm!! Troy and Brad were great drivers that night! Dropped us off and picked us up and brought us to get food!! Such great sports!

This was one of the best concerts I have seen and can't wait to plan our next trip to see him outdoors next year!!! Haven't decided, Wisconsin or Colorado yet! Stay tuned.....

Birthday Party!!!

Well the birthday's came and went and the boys had a great Party! It's great having them in July and only 5 days apart. At least for now that's the nice part!!! We set up the slip n slide for the kids to run on this year instead of the pool. They loved it!!! It's great to have all our friends and family come to help celebrate with the kids and after next year, I think we will have to do 2 parties as I don't see Grant wanting a party with his brother much longer!!!

The kids table, where all the fun is at!!!!

Dylan getting ready to blow out his candles on his baseball themed cake, imagine that! haha

Grant posing by his Cars cake. He really wanted Nascar, but settled for this. Maybe next year I will get a creative gene in me and make him a cake! ha, we will see!

Loved the frosting on the cupcakes! I'm sure all the parents did as it got everywhere and wasn't easy to come off!

Dylan and Nora, the bestest of friends!! Love this picture!


One of Dylan's favorite presents he got, a race car helmet that makes noises and lets him talk in the microphone!

The slip n slide was a huge hit with all the kiddos!!!

So here's another year in the books! Hopefully I can get one more combined party in before they demand their own!!!!

My Baby

HAPPY 3RD BIRTHDAY TO MY BABY!! WHERE DID THE TIME GO!

WE LOVE YOU! MOM AND DAD

Today

HAPPY 5th BIRTHDAY GRANT!!! WE LOVE YOU!!!

4th of July Weekend

We had a great 4th at the lakes! Warm weather every day, doesn't happen often in Minnesota! The boys enjoy swimming and boating. The lake was so calm were on the boats until around 8pm!

John and Dylie posing for Jess!

The sun was too bright and it was a tad windy, so Jessi gave Dylan her sunglasses to wear and they wrapped a towel around him to keep warm, I just love those glasses!

Grant is such a fish and is getting to be such a great swimmer! As long as he has those wings on he goes everywhere on his own!

Here is Dylan and Grant with Jessi and Teresa ready to go out on the lake so Eric can go skiing!


After skiing!

Grant had to put on Eric's glasses too, aren't they cool! haha

Matt and Eric enjoying lake life! Boat, beer and sun! what more can you ask for!



We of course had to participate in the golf cart parade. This year was our best decorating year yet!! And still we got shut out of winning!! Look out people, next year they won't know what hit them!

Chicago Day 2!

We started out heading to the zoo as it was lightly raining out but was to clear up
around noon. It worked out great as the zoo wasn't too busy and the boys were able to
get right up close to see all the animals.

Here is a photo right out of the Mary Poppins movie! how classic!! They had more fun

with the umbrellas!


Here is some poses next to some of the beautiful animals we saw that day! Only took us about 4 hours for the whole thing and the kids loved it!

This is the start of craziness that is Navy Pier. By noon it had cleared up but was cool by the lake. The entire upstairs portion of the pier is made just for kids! They went on the carousel ride a few times of course, then we just had to play a round of mini golf. Then we talked them into going on the ferris wheel.

Thomas the train choo-choo ride!

Here is a view from almost the top of the ferris wheel. What an amazing view from up there. Anyone who goes to Navy Pier, must take a ride on this! If we didn't have the kiddos, I think night time would be great to see as well!

Night time view from the end of the pier looking on the city skyline! what a site!

Chicago, day 1!

What a city! There is so much to see in chicago! We started out going to Shedd Aquarium and figured we would walk the waterfront to either Grant Park or Millenium Park. It was a beautiful day so we figured we better take advantage of the outdoors! Blues Festival was going on in Grant Park as well so it was extremely busy all over. Great view though walking along the water that goes on forever as Grant would say!

The fam in front of Buckingham Fountain!


The Bean, the boys thought this was so cool that they could see themselves in this huge giant circle thing in the middle of a park!

Here is the Dolphin show at Shedd Aquarium. The boys absolutely loved this show and seeing all the different animals they had in the water do different tricks! I think every time one jumped out of the water, Dylan would say "ooo" did you see that one there they go again...

Boys waiting for the show to begin!