Yeah, I'm a bad, bad blogger

I know, I know, I haven't put anything on here in forever and I really don't have any good excuse other than I just didn't do it. We've been having a great summer and the weather has been good for the most part so we've been taking advantage of it. We were lucky to get in the lake as early as Memorial Day Weekend and our little Tristan is quite the fish! He gets pretty upset with us when we try and take him out of water of any kind-the lake, the pool, the tub. He even wants to go out and water flowers with mom just hoping that I'll squirt him with the hose! It's been fun watching all three boys really enjoy spending time together. Of course that means something different to all the members of our clan-nice Connor!! I can't believe that it's already the middle of July. Where is the time going?

Connor went to Grand Forks, ND for Sioux Hockey Camp again this year-lucky me got to drive Connor and his friend Seth up to camp. We stopped in Detroit Lakes and visited Penny, Mark, Cody, Alison, Scooter and Kaylin which was a lot of fun. The drive home alone however, not fun. Good thing they make sugar free energy drinks or I'd have been sunk! Connor had a great time of course and learned a lot again so I was happy to do that for him. We headed up for July 4th weekend and got to enjoy more family time with Jerry, Erin and the kids. An added bonus for me was seeing my friends Melissa and Sherrie who were home visiting from down south. It was hard to come home after that weekend of sun, fun and family!

Jim ran his first road race EVER!! It was a 5K but over some pretty rough terraine so we are all so proud of him. He's been doing a great job training and working hard getting in to shape. He's hoping to run a few more races this summer and maybe work up to a marathon next year. Way to go sweetheart!

Happy 11 Months Tristan

I know, I know, I'm a terrible blogger. I'm a disgrace to bloggers everywhere with my infrequent posts but hey, I'm a busy mom with three boys and I just get caught up with life! SO, here's what's been going on with our life. Tristan is 11 months old today-I can't believe that our baby boy is almost already a year old. This just doesn't seem possible that time has gone by that quickly but it sure has. He's walking with more and more confidence each day so there's no stopping him now. He gets lots and lots of practice on wide open floors at the hockey rink waiting for games to start. We pretty much have been living at the rinks these past weekends. Both boys teams have been doing very well. Connor's team had a great second place finish at the Elk River Tournament January 2-3. The boys played some great hockey and we've been on a roll ever since. Garin's team also had a great weekend at the Centennial Tournament January 23-24 taking home the Consolation trophy. It's been so much fun watching them grow and develop as players and it's always exciting going to the games and cheering them on. We'll be going strong until about early March so join us at the rink-it's a great time.

Christmas was wonderful and relaxing-we headed up North to Grami and Papa's house in the Wisconsin woods and we had lots of fun taking Tristan out in the snow. Garin went snowshoeing several times and we even hit the sledding hill with Papa one afternoon-that's a workout! Our week went by too fast of course but it was so great to just enjoy our family time together without all the running.