Family Visit: Firepit

We thought it's be fun to get out the firepit and enjoy the Spring weather with the Fam. Yah, right! Last night, it rained so bad that we decided to forgo our plans and stay inside. Then today, temps dropped quite a bit and the winds BLEW like CRAZY! But we decided to brave it anyways. It was way fun but chilly and the ND breeze blew ashes from here to Timbucktoo. All of us smelled SOOO smokey after. And we smelt (is that a word?) it the rest of the weekend in a jacket or a pair of Levis or anything that had come in contact with us. Oh the memories associated with smells! Too funny! The Sh'mores were sure yummy and sticky though! Thanks Honey for picking up 4 different kinds of Marshmallows just to make sure I was happy! XOXO! ;) We had GIGANTIC ones, regular ones, strawberry ones, and S'more ones that are flat and square. What will they come up with next?

Bonfire Sh'mores & Summer Sledding

We LOVE making Sh'mores over our own firepit in the driveway! It's like a contest to see who can get the "PERFECT" golden marshmellow. AND we give the burnt ones to Liberty! LOL! Tonight the kids and Brett got quite a bonfire going! I love the pictures of the flames. Aren't they pretty?

Then, you gotta LOVE the creativity kids have. Somehow they decided they didn't need snow for some sledding fun! I think they went around the yard in a circle like 20 times. It was fun to see them laugh and play together! Who needs snow to have fun? Not us!!!! (OK maybe Brett does!;)

Best Family Vacation Ever: Day of Rest

We were originally thinking we would have to drive 1 hour and 40 minutes to get to Church in Bemidji. (That's the last Branch in our Stake boundaries) but we found a little Branch in Grand Rapids which was only 25 minutes north. This was the first time I've ever been to a Branch so it was entertaining. It happened to be that most, if not all (I couldn't tell) of the Branch Presidency was gone and the Brother conducting was pretty dry-humor funny! They had combined meetings and he happened to be conducting or teaching them all. I haven't heard that much laughter and talking in meetings in a long time. Pretty funny. The material was really good though. They had no Nursery but all the kids did great. It also turned out that being the 5th Sunday they were having a Potluck so we even got lunch out of the deal. SCORE for us! They tried to recruit us to stay. We told them we actually were coming to recruit for ours and we were shown the door. (Not literally but he did joke with us about it) LOL!

We enjoyed the rest of our Sabbath day napping and watching Narnia and having a Firepit dinner. We love roasting hotdogs, BBQing corn on the cob and toasting marshmallows for Sh'mores (those are even better than your regular s'mores LOL!)  

Because of the gorgeous woods and tall trees, I thought about Jennifer Mausolf all week. Several times I was tempted to find a long red wig and run through them really fast. LOL! {Twilight fans will get what I'm saying.} I settled for a picture of me deep in the woods. LOVE ya Jen!!!