Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Tommy and Sammy driving Mommy crazy
This is the reason John and I are ready to pull out our hair every night :-) and also the reason we are so happy every night :-)
Monday, August 29, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
More Pictures
I see you Grandpa...
Getting a tiger tattoo just like mom.
Eating ice cream at Grandpa's employee picnic! We love that Grandpa works at Schwans!!
Tommy eating his ice cream too.
Tommy on a pony during the employee picnic from Schwan's.
Great Grandpa holding onto Sammy. He passed him off pretty quickly - he's too heavy.
Eating corn on the cob.
Pissed that we took away the corn on the cob! :-)
On a tractor with Grandpa
Tommy loves his Uncle Jerry -- he owns the tractors!
Sammy on a tractor with Grandpa
Tommy extremely happy on a combine!!! He thought the combines and tractors were really, really cool.
Getting into the tractor. He was very, very excited.
Let's go Grandpa!!!
Sammy was having fun too.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Pictures Attempt #2
Grandpa tickling Tommy on the way to riding tractors.
At Fawn-Doe-Rosa in St. Croix Falls -- the goose just pecked Tommy's finger. Per Tommy, that was a "silly goose".
Feeding the goats. Daddy held the bag of food too close to the fence and one smart little goat grabbed the whole bag.
Sammy enjoying Fawn-Doe-Rosa too.
Tommy's first tractor ride with Grandpa!!!
Feeding a doe at Fawn-Doe-Rosa.
Riding the Dizzy Dinosaur at the Benton County Fair
Sammy "enjoying" the Benton County Fair.
Playing the games at Benton County Fair. Tommy's a natural and won all sorts of things.
Feeding the goats at Fawn-Doe-Rosa
Riding the motorcycle ride at Benton County Fair
Riding the "jeep cars" at the Benton County Fair
Riding the space ship at Benton County Fair
Driving the pontoon with Uncle Ronnie
Riding the bikes at Benton County Fair
Tommy's first fish!!!
Casting with his Lightning McQueen fishing pole
Squishy face smile!!
Little Sammy boy.
Tommy driving the pontoon with Uncle Ronnie - we had our first fishing trip and Tommy had a blast in the boat - even though it was 100 degrees out. He had a lot of fun and caught a lot of fish. Thank you Ronnie and Robin!!!!
Mini Vacation
After Sammy's little surgery, we decided a little vacation was in order. We headed out to Taylors Falls, St Croix Falls overnight, then to Stillwater, and then to Grandpa and Grandma's. We had a great time visiting the scenic Taylors Falls area, eating ice cream, going to the rock store, and just checking this out. We then hung out at our hotel, with Mommy, Daddy, Tommy, and Sammy venturing in the "big pool". The boys and Mommy & Daddy had a blast. The next morning we visited Fawn-Doe-Rosa, a wilderness, learning center/petting zoo at the top of the hill in St. Croix Falls. It was really cool and I'm pretty sure the boys enjoyed it as much as John and I did. After that we went to the drive-up in Taylors Falls and had some awesome food before going on the St. Croix boat venturing up the river. It was pretty cool, but I think the boys will enjoy it a lot more when they are a little older. Tommy had a blast running around with another little boy and girl though.
We also ventured into Stillwater for the candy store - where we actually got to witness the whole "kid in a candy store" theory. It really was amazing how quickly he moved through there collecting different things.
We then ventured down the road - debating the whole way if we should get another hotel or just drive all the way to Grandpa and Grandma's in Marshall. Tommy wanted us to push on -- although Sammy was wanting to stop. We pushed through and made it to Marshall Friday night - really, really late Friday night, but made it. Saturday we ran out to Granite so Tommy could see the tractors and got to go on his first tractor ride with Grandpa. He thought this was AWESOME! He was in heaven, and I'm pretty sure that Grandpa was pretty happy about it too. :-) Tommy is now looking forward to harvesting season so he can go on the combine with Jerry and maybe even a big grain truck. We got to visit with my cousin Theo from France, as well as Uncle Leslie, Uncle Jerry, Great Grandpa & Grandma Nelson, which is always a good time.
Sunday was also full of excitement. We got to go with Grandpa to his work picnic. Schwan's has an awesome employee picnic at the college where Grandma works. They have a catered lunch, all the free ice cream you can imagine, jumpy things, pony rides, petting zoo, carnival games, cotton candy, snow cones, etc. It's a great time. Tommy made his way around to everything and absolutely LOVED the pony rides and it was a great day for everyone. Sammy even enjoyed the petting zoo....and the ice cream :-)
Hope you enjoy the pictures. I tried to include something from everything. We had a great time and are looking forward to many more great mini vacations like this one!
Well -- hopefully I'll get the pictures to load soon. I'm having some troubles. I'll keep trying soon!
We also ventured into Stillwater for the candy store - where we actually got to witness the whole "kid in a candy store" theory. It really was amazing how quickly he moved through there collecting different things.
We then ventured down the road - debating the whole way if we should get another hotel or just drive all the way to Grandpa and Grandma's in Marshall. Tommy wanted us to push on -- although Sammy was wanting to stop. We pushed through and made it to Marshall Friday night - really, really late Friday night, but made it. Saturday we ran out to Granite so Tommy could see the tractors and got to go on his first tractor ride with Grandpa. He thought this was AWESOME! He was in heaven, and I'm pretty sure that Grandpa was pretty happy about it too. :-) Tommy is now looking forward to harvesting season so he can go on the combine with Jerry and maybe even a big grain truck. We got to visit with my cousin Theo from France, as well as Uncle Leslie, Uncle Jerry, Great Grandpa & Grandma Nelson, which is always a good time.
Sunday was also full of excitement. We got to go with Grandpa to his work picnic. Schwan's has an awesome employee picnic at the college where Grandma works. They have a catered lunch, all the free ice cream you can imagine, jumpy things, pony rides, petting zoo, carnival games, cotton candy, snow cones, etc. It's a great time. Tommy made his way around to everything and absolutely LOVED the pony rides and it was a great day for everyone. Sammy even enjoyed the petting zoo....and the ice cream :-)
Hope you enjoy the pictures. I tried to include something from everything. We had a great time and are looking forward to many more great mini vacations like this one!
Well -- hopefully I'll get the pictures to load soon. I'm having some troubles. I'll keep trying soon!
Surgery last week for Sammy
As some of you know already, little Sammy had a little surgery last week. He was born tongue tied. Depending on the severity, the doctors sometimes decide to clip this and sometimes don't, especially if the baby isn't having any problems eating, etc. Sammy didn't have any problems eating (still doesn't), but after his teeth started coming in, the area started getting irritated and he developed a sore with some scar tissue in the area and the ENT doc thought it should be clipped. Since he's already 9 months old, we were informed they would need to sedate him to do it. Yeah, Mommy was not thrilled about this.
So last Wednesday 8/10/11 we headed to the Surgical Center and they put Sammy under and clipped his tongue. They also removed that area of irritated skin and he got 2 stitches. He did Awesome (which in my head I knew he would, but was scared to death about the sedation portion of it). Everything looked good, surgery went well. He's already healed up and at some point will realize he can stick his tongue out now. The doctor did submit the area removed for pathology, which came back just fine as well. Hopefully this is the first and last time we have to deal with sedation for any of the kids. :-)
So last Wednesday 8/10/11 we headed to the Surgical Center and they put Sammy under and clipped his tongue. They also removed that area of irritated skin and he got 2 stitches. He did Awesome (which in my head I knew he would, but was scared to death about the sedation portion of it). Everything looked good, surgery went well. He's already healed up and at some point will realize he can stick his tongue out now. The doctor did submit the area removed for pathology, which came back just fine as well. Hopefully this is the first and last time we have to deal with sedation for any of the kids. :-)
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