Today at the school was the Jump Rope for Heart contest at school...which I did not know until Burandt text me from school at 8:21am to tell me.
Burandt...
...came in FIRST place for his grade (3rd).
Braydon...
...came in SECOND for his grade (6th).
Way to go boys!!!
...EVER!
For the boy that is ;)
Last Friday we brought the boys down to the Target Center in Minneapolis to their first concert. Miranda Lambert! (Jerrod Nieman and Chris Young were the oping acts) So technically they have now seen three country artists live in concert now :)
We stayed at the Marriott City Center, which was nice because we were literally a block and a half away from the Target Center, so we were able to walk. The boys enjoyed staying in a skyscraper. Brecken especially loved the elevators...we were on the 16th floor so we got to ride on them plenty of times :)
I know some of these photos are really dark...not much for lighting at concerts.
Enjoying snow cones while the opening acts played.
We all had a blast at the concert...sang out buns off ;) but boy were we tired once we got back to the hotel, but these kids are never to tired to play Nintendo.
On our way out of the city we drove by this crazy person (9:30 am) dressed in a bright pink gorilla suit. Ya that's not weird at all!?!?
...and of course we had to stop at Tobie's in Hinckley for breakfast. (we also stopped at Gordy's Hi-Hat on the way down but I didn't get pictures there)
All in all it was a great family trip!
All the snow didn't stop us from making the trip to little sucker lake to visit with family.
My dad and his mother ;)
Four generation pictures ...
Emma, Keelie, Dad, Fran (above)
Burandt, Me, Dad, Brecken, Braydon, and Fran (below)
We had a wonderful day and a great time catching up with great company....Thanks for having us!!
This past Sunday we got quite a snow storm here on the Range. So much snow, so fast that the kids finally got one of their first snow days, and got to stay home from school on Monday.
(final snow tally)
Just disgusting, right!
Burandt turned 9 last week! Amazing how fast they grow up....seem like just yesterday we were all snuggled up on the couch watch "Meemo" (Finding Nemo) over and over again. Now I'm lucky to have a conversation face to face with him...thanks to his birthday present-- a cell phone!
This sure made his day... He has been wanting a phone of his own for quite some time now :)
He started his special day off with "birthday breakfast" ...he thought the candle, and hats were a bit unnecessary but I did not ;)
We had a little celebration just the five of us that evening and let him open his gifts from us and did cake and ice cream because we are not going to have an official party for him (well all three of them actually) till may at the Matrix in Hibbing.
Huh...looks like two candles left?? Whats that mean two lady friends :)
Happy Birthday Buddy we love you bunches!!
