Celebrating Six!

Six years ago, in a Las Vegas hospital at about this time of the evening, I finally got to hold my little baby boy and gaze into his sweet eyes.  The day had been long and a bit too eventful.  My water had broke around 7 am, but my body still didn't want to go into labor.  After medical intervention to progress labor followed by an eventual c-section and 4 hours of observation of both Dane and myself, he was in my arms.  Fast forward 6 very quick years...

Dane invited his best buddy from school to spend the night Friday.

The temperature was in the 70's so we spent all evening outside.  Nora decided in the late afternoon that she wanted to wear her nightgown.

 Yesterday, we headed to Minneapolis for the rest of the weekend.  We stayed with Uncle Ben and Auntie Jen and met Grampy, Grammy, Hugh, Melodee, Zachary and Ellie to celebrate!

We spent some time yesterday touring the Mill City museum.  Nora loved the bake lab.

There were so many interactive learning activities for the kids.

I think we all enjoyed them!

 We had to spend some time outside along the river basking in the sun!

Ellie, Zachary, Nora and Dane.

Nora and Ellie were walking along hand in hand.  As I tried to snap a cute picture, Dane (who had been walking ahead of them) had to fix his shoe.  They just kept on walking!

Party time!

I made special cupcakes for my Angry Birds fan!

Dane got a Kindle Fire from Grampy, Grammy, Daddy and Mommy. He hasn't put it down much!

 This afternoon, we took a nice walk around Ben and Jen's neighborhood.  There are some beautiful trees blooming there.  We think these are called star magnolia trees.

I have to share this picture of Nora's beautiful ringlets created like this.

Happy 6th birthday to our loving, spirited growing farm boy.  You amaze us with all you have learned and all you have taught us!