Finally a nice picture of Nick and I! Seems we have so many pictures of the kids and so few of us together. This was at my good friends' wedding.

Faith at the bonfire up north.

Gracie and her first fish.

Gracie at the bonfire.

Gracie's first day of preschool. She picked out her outfit the first day and wanted to her preschool shirt that they got at registration.

opps...I forogot to rotate this before I downloaded. I'm not too blog savy and can't figure out how to change it now. Reading with Grandma and cousin Aliyah.

Faith's favorite thing to play with at Grandma and Grandpa's house. Everytime we go over there she runs to get these dolls before even saying hi to anyone. Grandma...if you are missing one of these we have it! It went through the wash and I found it in the dryer. Apparently she had put on in her pocket to take home.

The Peters cousins.

After a warm begining to October fall has finally arrived in Minnesota! Nick is busy in the field and the girls and I are trying to keep ourselves busy too. Gracie started preschool two mornings a week and seems to be enjoying it. Faith enjoys the time with mommy while Gracie is at school. In September we joined my family in northern MN at a cabin for a few days. It is the same resort we used to go to with my grandparents. The weather was a little cool, but we were still able to get in some fishing. We recently enjoyed a visit from Marta, Sebastian and Aliyah. The three cousins had fun together. Aliyah and Faith had fun sharing toys and playing together.

Blue Mounds

This past week we went on our first camping trip with my parent's old pop-up camper trailer. The girls were so excited and had a great time. We went to Blue Mounds State Park in Southwestern MN. Grace in the tepee she helped set up at the Jeffers Petroglyphs.

Grace getting her junior ranger award at the Pipestone National Monument.

Pipestone National Monument.

Gracie trying to get Faith to keep up on a hike. Faith wanted to walk on her own, but she would walk for a little, then play with the grass, then stop and look at the ground. We were always trying to get her to keep walking:)

messy Nick

messy Faith

messy Grace

Little Church we stopped at by the campground.

One of many rests on our hike.

Nick and the girls by the old quary.

Faith getting a ride on the hike.

Nick taking some time to relax.

Grace enjoyed sweeping out the camper with the little broom. She thought we should get a little broom like for at home:)

Watching Nick do all the work setting up the camper.

The students at Grace's school.

The teacher

Grace's new bike.

Sprinkler fun.

Faith went through once and then she just wanted to watch. Not a big fan of the sprinkler.

More water fun.

Spring Fun

Memorial day at a playground.

Faith of course liked the slide the best.

For Nick's birthday I got him a basketball hoop. We are finally getting around to installing it. Grace's hand print in the cement.

Faith had fun playing in the mud while Nick was working.

The other night Grace fell asleep while looking at books. This is how I found her when I tucked in her in.

Enjoying a beautiful day outside.

Smelling the flowers.

Faith going for a ride.

Gracie likes the Fancy Nancy books so we did Fancy Nancy hair the other day (that meant trying to put as many hair ties and barrettes in their hair as I could:)

Grace holding cousin Benjiman.

Meeting Benjiman for the first time. Faith loves babies so she enjoyed hanging out with her cousin.

The girls playing 'baby'. As you can see Faith was the baby.

Easter and other random pictures

For Easter this year we went to Chuck and Jo Ann's house for dinner. That morning we had Easter breakfast at church and Gracie sang during the service with her Sunday School class.

Nick took some of his old toys home for the girls to play with. This was his old pig barn with all the pigs. I think he had about as much fun playing with it as the girls did:)

Grandpa and Grandma with two of their grandchildren on Easter.

Faith and her Easter basket from Grandpa and Grandma.

The girls checking out their Easter baskets.

The girls looking through their basket from mom and dad.

The girls and I all got colds and strep throat. It took us a few weeks, but we are finally all healthy! Nick was trying so hard to not get sick before planting. One day he came home from work with a mask and gloves on as a joke!

The farm got a ranger this spring. We've taken advantage of having it around and have also used it some for our yard work:)

The girls usually like to help me unload and put away groceries when we get home from shopping. I try to keep a good eye on what they are doing, but some things have gotten past me (like fridge biscuits exploded in the cupboard). This day I asked Faith to put things away in the bathroom. I went to check on her and found that she had put everything on or by the toilet.

The girls thought Nissa needed a blanket. She puts up with a lot from the girls even though she is not the nicest to other people.

All Better

Stories with dad before bed.

Nick's birthday.

Grace trying to push Faith around in the doll stroller with a broken collarbone.

Grace with her with her broken collarbone

For anyone that doesn't know; Gracie broke her collarbone on February 11th. We went in for our final doctor appointment for it on Wednesday. She had an x-ray taken and got the final news that it is healed! It was completely broken and overlapping so it was interesting to see how it had grown back together. Glad to be done with appointments for that! Hopefully we won't have an ER visit and broken bone in our home for a long time!

Nick is starting to finish up his city league basketball season. He has a tournament this weekend and will be done. We celebrated Nick's birthday on the 6th. Just cake after supper. When I was getting supper ready Gracie asked "when is everyone else coming to the party." I had to explain to her that we were the party. Apparently she assumes everyone should get a big birthday party like she does!

Other then that not too much exciting going on here. Just waiting for all the snow to melt and warmer weather to arrive (and stay)!