construction machines

We kept is simple this year for Henry's birthday - burgers on the grill for lunch with the family, it really was nice.  We lucked out with beautiful weather outside, no complaints here!  Henry's absolutely loving "construction machines" of all kinds these days - excavators, dump trucks, road scrapers, you name it, he loves it!  So, I incorporated a "construction" theme into the day as well.  I made dirt cake (which Henry later called it 'dirt-day' cake, how fitting), Henry and Greta got to eat theirs out of their dump trucks, which they thought was pretty cool!

The singing of Happy Birthday :)

The candles are out!

Somebody loved the worms after she found out "they were just squishy worms, not real ones."

After lunch, we tried to get a few family pics (which is a difficult task in itself)! 

Oma & Opa

Grandma & Grandpa

Auntie Sonja

first fish

The neighbor boys have been raving about the number of fish they've been catching off the bridges in our lakes lately, so Henry wanted to get in on all the action.  Phil wormed up Henry's new fishing rod for him this past weekend and we walked down the block to the bridge.  His line wasn't in more than 10 seconds and this is what he had on it, a real whopper - his first fish!  Henry gave it one small "pet", then Phil threw it back and it swam away happily :)

Happy Birthday to Henry

Three years ago today, WOW!

Happy Father's Day

bowling buddies

Can't you just picture these two being in a bowling league down the road some day?  On this rainy and cold morning, we met up with Harrison & Becky so the boys could get their bowl on :)  Toddler bowling shoes really are quite adorable.   

Complete with a ramp and bumpers, Henry & Harrison bowled a mean game.  They were the only two bowlers in the whole alley, it was great, we had the place to ourselves!  They both carried their orange ball to ramp by themselves each time and nobody walked away with any injuries, success :)  Harrison even bowled a strike once, no joke!

Twins vs Mariners

Phil took Henry & I to the Twins game on Saturday.  It was Henry's 2nd game that he's been to, the first one he lasted 3 innings and this time around I think we made it 5 or 6 innings - progress!  We had some good ballpark food and a great view of the game.  Apparently we missed a good Twins walk-off game winner in the end!

Working on his swing with Harmon Killebrew out on the plaza :)

Flashback to Henry's 1st Twins game - about 13 months old here!

A Happy Happy Birthday

Yes, a very happy birthday it was for me this year, the big 3-2 went down last Friday!  First off, a stop at Caribou on my way to work.  I have such a thing for iced coffee right now, love it.   

My most favorite gifts that I received, from Henry (with just a little bit of help from his Oma) - this picture frame with the cutest picture of he & I, the beautiful necklace with butterflies and a unicorn (he told me that I'll look as pretty as Vanna - yes, the boy LOVES Vanna White - when I wear this necklace, with a Vanna dress, of course), and the lilacs that he picked!  Could I have asked for sweeter gifts from my sweet boy?!

After work, we headed to the Witch's Tower in Minneapolis.  They open it up 1 day out of the whole year for people to go up to the top to see the views of the city, and this year it just happened to be on my birthday!  Of course the line was crazy to get up there, so we just walked around the park and then headed off to dinner, my request was Punch Pizza :)

After dinner, Phil treated me to some Wuollet's cupcakes, absolutely delicious.  Thank you to my boys for a wonderful birthday!