Fun with Family

Arrowwood Resort-Alexandria, MN

This past weekend, our family along with my parents, brother & his family and my sister and her family, vacationed together at Arrowwood Resort in Alexandria. It was nice to hang out together and the girls loved being able to play with their cousins. We stayed in a cabin while mom and dad stayed away from the chaos and was at the hotel part of the resort. Outside our cabin was a small ice skating pond. It was so much fun despite Rachel's head trauma, Natalie's elbow accident and my Dad's butt pain. We also spent time at the waterpark and swimming pool. Most of our time though was spent playing games and eating in our cabin. Yosts and Schloesser's were also there and our time overlapped and we were able to chat with them too. I was happy that Mya could meet Lydia. They're the same age and are very similar in personality! Spunky and fun! Thanks Mom and Dad for a great weekend!!
Elijah Yost and Natalie watching the action and having a good conversation!
Lydia Yost and nieces Ally and Mya

Rachel-looking like an 'ol pro!
Brian-Just like riding a bike!
The skaters
Best looking sisters EVER!
Me and my girlies...

Laura making us breakfast! Yummy!
Rachel and Jack
Monkey's jumping on the bed
The guys...
Big brother Owen
Only in MN...bomber hat, snowboots and swim shorts...hmmmm

Big Boy Jackson

Brian taking the Plunge...Polar Plunge that is!

He did it again! Crazy...is all I can say. After having a week of very balmy temperatures, the day of the plunge only reached12 degrees. It was nice and sunny, so I'm guessing that helped a little. :) St. Peter had over 600 jumpers and raised over $100,000 dollars for Special Olympics. Awesome! The girls and I were having fun at Lydia's party while Brian was jumping so thanks to Jen for the pictures!!

Whoa...Update this already!

Honestly I can't believe it's been over a month since my last blog post. My sister seems to be the only one keeping tabs on me though, so I guess she's the only one "watching" us. Or you all are too kind to comment??!! :)

Ok...since we last left off we were celebrating Emily's b-day. Then my computer crashed...That's why I didn't update! Amazingly we did survive without the computer for a whole day and a half. Glad to have it back and that I didn't loose any important things like pictures. Caitlin was looking for ideas for her Valentines Box creation and apparently these virus people are now putting virus's on kid's websites. Nice....Really they should do better things with their time. Well, she did come up with a really cool idea that she came up with on her own and it took 2nd place in the 5th grade class competition. Here's the finished product. I thought it was really neat!

Emily's Birthday

So for Emily's birthday she invited 3 friends out for bowling and pizza. Afterward we went to the boys basketball game and one of her friends stayed the night. On Sunday, we had Grandpa & Grandma Salfer, Grandma Elaine and Grandpa Tom, Mike & Irene all over for brunch to celebrate Em's 9 years. It was a whirlwind of a weekend but definitely fun.

New Year's Eve

I have no pictures from New Year's Eve-bummer. We had 16 kids and 11 adults present! It was fun to visit and the kids had a blast playing. It was a little different than past New Years. Mary, Tony's wife was in Florida and Heather was laying on our couch on bed rest. Only the Crowley's, Tony and Kylie stayed until midnight. It was nice though to ring in the new year with a bunch of great friends.

Christmas in REWIND- Part 5 Moore Family Christmas

The final part in the Christmas REWIND saga was my side of the family's get together on December 28th. Annie so graciously took pictures for me and she was so quick in getting them sent to me too. So here you go. We had perfect traveling weather this year which Annie and Matt enjoyed since the past two years there's been snow storms and coming from Fargo, it isn't a pretty drive. Last year, I believe, they got stuck in Watertown SD on there way back due to I29 closing. Not this year though...no snow on the ground! The kids had alot of fun playing with their cousins. Grandma came over and was probably over stimulated! Baby Jack got handed off from one set of loving arms to the next. (mine were his favorite though) We had some good food, alot of fruit snacks and suckers and many half-full juice boxes sitting around. In the evening, after presents & food, the kids settled in watching a movie-well my kids did. Mya and Ally like their parents alot and Owen went to bed. The adults played a new game-The Logo game. It was pretty fun. We ended up leaving close to 11pm and didn't get back to St. Peter til 12:30am. Good thing we had nothing planned in the morning-just sleeping in.

Christmas Rewind-Part 4 Christmas Eve/Day

Caitlin and Emily sang at the Christmas Eve mass so we all went to the 4pm service. It was different, but nice. We usually go Christmas morning and sometimes the 9pm service. The 4pm mass is always very well attended and it was packed! The girls sang beautifully and we for the most part very well behaved. After mass we headed home for an Christmas Eve formal dinner with the china and sparkling wine. After dinner we opened presents. It was a nice quiet? evening.







Christmas morning, Caitlin and Emily were the first ones up-7:00am. Not too bad. Rachel was up about 20 minutes later and then they finally got us up about 7:50. It was funny to listen to Caitlin and Emily whispering about what they think was in their stockings and what was under the tree for them. They never pick anything up or shake it, just sit and wonder. Very cute. Our house puked up Lego's Christmas morning. Everyone got a set and everyone was very excited to start building! Natalie didn't get Lego's but she did get a few puzzles she was very excited about. She's a puzzle freak! After playing a bit it was time to get ready for "over the river and through the woods to Gma's house we go!" Salfer family Christmas!!! COUSINS!!!!









We love going to see all the Salfer's. Its never quiet, the food is always good and the kids are never sitting around bored. This year for some strange reason or another, the older grandkids served the dessert, cleared the tables and did the dishes!! Their present to Grandma perhaps?! It was very nice of them. After present opening, we played games, visited and watched Elf on TV. We didn't get home until 10:30pm. Very fun and exhausting day.




Isaac and Emily (7mo apart)
Uncle Mike? Is that you under all those bows?