Memorial Weekend

We had a busy Memorial weekend.  Friday started with playing at home, outside!  The kids both kept reaching in the pool, playing in the water so I finally put on the suits and said "go!".  The water was too cold, and it wasn't that hot outside so it didn't last long.

And we wonder why Makenna is such a monkey....monkey see monkey do!

Friday evening we got to meet "Uncle" Aaron's, girlfriend, Debra for the first time.  They played with the kids for a while and then us 4 adults went out on a double date while cousin Jamie and her boyfriend Bryant came to watch the kids!  (Thanks Jamie and Bryant....they had a blast as did we!)

Saturday we ran errands, took naps (or some of us did), and then went to Grandpa David and Grandma Kim's farm to be with the Schaap side of the family.  The kids had a blast as they got to meet their baby puppies for the first time and see all the other animals along with riding the 4 wheeler.

Having a chip with Daddy!

Playing with the puppies.

Thanks to Great Grandma Lu, Mommy got in on a couple pictures!

Watching the cows.

Debra and Uncle Aaron with the baby calves.

Sunday we went to Church, had lunch with Evan's family, took naps, and went to spend time with the Kindt's in the evening and have supper with them.

Great Grandpa Poots, Great Grandma Billie, and Makenna

Monday we got to spend as a family of 4...thanks to Mommy getting undert time at work Sunday night!  We got up, had breakfast and went out to Lake Vermillion where we did a little fishing, Denver and Mommy rode on the tube for a little bit, and both the kids took turns driving the boat.  Before Mommy had to leave for work we had a yummy meal of chislic out on the deck.

Evan caught a Northern

And finally she konked so we all could enjoy some time out on the boat.

Driving the boat with Daddy.

Denver's turn to drive the boat.

Denver and Mommy riding on the tube.

A night at Wall Lake

I finally download almost 200 pictures from my little camera so figured I better get some of this up on the blog so I can get to current things.  Several weeks ago we decided to take the boat out to Wall Lake after supper.  I scrambled like crazy to have the kids fed and ready to go by the time Evan got home from work so it wouldn't get so late (so we'd have happy kids).  When Evan went to get the boat ready he found that Denver had been playing in the boat the previous day and turned the key...and now the battery was dead.  Evan charged the battery while we finished getting every thing ready and loaded up.  He grabbed jumper cables and we were on our way.  We put the boat in the water.....and.....it wouldn't start.  So Evan got out the jumper cables and that didn't work, another guy tried to jump us too and that didn't work either, so we loaded the boat back up and went to the shoreline for the boys to fish for a little bit.  Here are some pictures from our evening.

They caught fish after fish after fish....but they were tiny!

Denver just couldn't get enough!

Concentrating.

Due to our early start the kids were able to play outside some when we got home before bed.

Makenna pushing her shopping cart and baby.