Celebrating

Last weekend, Mike and I began celebrating our 13th anniversary by spending a night at this beautiful B&B, the Heritage House in St. Cloud.

We had a large, delicious supper at Anton's and enjoyed watching the geese.

Beautiful Sauk River.

The Theodore Wirth Golf Course clubhouse where Mike played with my brother Ben and some other friends on Saturday.

The kids celebrated by spending the weekend with Grampy and Grammy.  Dane kept Grampy busy playing baseball.

Out for a nice evening walk.

There happened to be a track meet for little kids on Saturday in Milnor, so Dane participated and won a couple of running races.  That's my farm boy, preferring to wear jeans instead of shorts!

We celebrated Ben and Jen's upcoming wedding with a couples picnic shower Sunday.

Along the banks of the Mississippi.

On Monday, our actual anniversary, we enjoyed the gift of a very calm lake on our boat.

Kicking off the wakeboard season!

Grammy found the perfect suit for Nora.  It says,"Happiness is being a princess!"

Nora thought it was pretty fun to go fishing for Dane.  (No hook on the line!)

Tuesday night, Grandpa and Grandma invited us over for pie to celebrate.  The boys had to play a little baseball as well!

 Tomorrow marks 6 weeks since the kittens were born.  They are now very playful, eating solid food, and even using the litter box.  They have been moved out to our cat shed and like to play outside as well.

Over the past 10 days, little Oranges became noticeably smaller when compared with the other kittens, so I've been babying the little runt back to health.

Little kitten, big world.

Oranges

Posey thinks she's too cute for the camera.

Ferocious Sammy!

Rascal

Four playful kittens!

These beautiful purple flowers are everywhere right now!

A monarch enjoys the flowers as well.

Grandpa and Grandma's silos visible across the corn field which has sprung up and become so beautiful and green recently.

Beautiful sky this evening.

On to June!

Summer, won't you please come and stay for a while?

Last week, the kids created their own water park in our yard.  They both started out fully clothed and then stripped down as their clothes got wet.  This resulted in a midday bath and load of laundry!

 Our Memorial Day weekend weather was nicer than predicted, thank goodness.  My parents came for the weekend, and we enjoyed our time together.  On Saturday, Dane went to a friend's birthday party, and the rest of us, along with Mike's parents, loaded up our bikes and headed for Runestone Park.

Grandpa, Mike, Grandma and Grampy heading our way on their bikes.

My dad still loves to swing!

Three generations of Andersons on the swings- Paul, Mike and Nora.

This didn't last long!  A couple of times around, and Grandpa and Grandma had to get off!

Mike got our boat out to ready it for boating season, and he found these baby robins up in our wakeboard tower.  Sadly, they didn't survive our attempted transfer.

 Of course, I have a few kitten pictures as well!

The kittens are much more mobile, finally.  I caught this cute video of little Sammy running after Dane in the yard.