Colton's Birthday

 We celebrated Colton's (golden!) 10th birthday with both family and friends!  He chose to have a party at Grand Slam with some awesome buddies from both school, church, and various sports teams.

He was so excited that both sets of grandparents and his MN cousins could all be at the same dinner to celebrate him!  He picked Snuffy's for burgers and shakes.

Grandma and Grandpa T gave Colton a crash-ride cymbal and stand for his drum set and Grandma and Grandpa K gave Colton the new Loons jersey and other Loons gear!  Teddy and Charlie made Colton sweet cards!

Back at home, we celebrated with Colton's choice meal of smoked salmon, and Colton opened a hi-hat cymbal for his drum set, along with some new shoes he had been wanting and the game Ticket to Ride (which we had so much fun playing as a family!)

Happy 10th birthday to our favorite son!  Colton, you are adventurous, fun, kind, responsible, sport loving, amazing conversationalist, godly, smart, creative, and so much more!  We are so proud of the young man you are growing to be, and couldn't ask for a better son.  We thank the Lord for you!

Spring Break 2022

 We went to Captiva Island, Florida, for spring break this year!  My parents rented a big house and invited us to all stay with them.  We had so much fun!  We spent time at the beach, in the pool, went to Fast Trax Amusement Park, Sun Splash Water Park, and ate lots of great food.  We also got to see our good friends, the Trans, who moved to Florda last year.  Here are a few pictures from our trip....

Minneapolis Staycation

As alluded to in my previous post, Paul and I had a trip to Las Vegas planned for just the two of us.  We were so excited!  The morning that we were supposed to leave, Colton woke up with the stomach flu.  Long story short, we needed to last-minute cancel everything and stay home.  Due to many factors, we were not able to reschedule the trip, but we wanted to spend some time together just the same.  As the kids are getting older and more involved in evening activities with later bedtimes, we have noticed that we need to be more intentional about finding time for "us".  A few weeks after our cancelled trip, we decided to do a two-night getaway to Minneapolis and just have some time together!  We did some shopping at Mall of America, ate at RH rooftop, stayed at a hotel, "pretended" (j/k) that we were in another country enjoying browsing the midtown global market and learning a ton from the Somali museum.  We also went to a mystery dinner, which was a really fun and new thing to both of us!  It was great to "get-away" and spend some time having fun together!

A huge thank you to Grandma and Grandpa T who spent the weekend having fun with our kiddos!  They went to an escape room together and enjoyed spending time with their dogs!

Colton is also very grateful that they brought along Uncle Jordan's old drumset.  Colton started drum lessons a few weeks ago and is LOVING it!