Madaline Island '08

Well Nate and I went on an Adult only trip the end of June and it was a great time, we went up to Madeline Island on Lake Superior with my cousin Alli and her husband Kurt and 3 other couples : Aaron and Sara Quam, Adam Ellingsberg and Kari Harbo and Karen Ronningen and Alvin Jones (aka AJ). We had a wonderful time on this long weekend, we rented a house up there that was very nice,right across the road from the Lake it was BEAUTIFUL!! We had really just one night of rain and it was a good thing Nate brought along ROCK BAND for that very instance :) we turned it into a rock band party that night!!! they had fun!!! we went sight seeing all around the island and tried to find some fairy's with no luck :( Some of us even went all the way into Lake Superior!!!! YIKES it was very cold, I think my body was going into shock actually!!! but all in all we had a wonderful time, Thanks Alli for the invite :) here are some pictures for you all to enjoy :



oh no!!! The cargo carrier
was too loaded down, we
had to unload a little in order
to get onto the Ferry!!!


Oh there, that should help
a little :)



Oh Come on Adam,
Smile,It's your world!!!



This is the Island that we were on



Oh Hi Babe!!!!







The Ferry


Very mature Kari!!!!


That's better :)


Seagulls


"Old Glory"


The name of the place we stayed at



The House


Our view from across the road



Ok so funny story here:
So we got to this place and it sleeps 8 supposedly and I guess that 2 of those 8 would need to sleep on an air mattress that was no where to be found but we needed it because we had 8 people along so we called the hotel that takes care of booking and maintaining this place and they told us where to look which we already had and then they said that they would bring one out to us, so this guy shows up with our Air Mattress but it turns out to be a Simmons beautyrest unopened REAL mattress!!!!! I have never seen or heard of such a thing :) It was too funny!!!





Creepy Adam!?!?!?!?


Rockin'


Chillin'



Sword fight: "On Guard"



Kari trying to stab a fly
with her ultra sharp
roasting stick :)



Oh Nate, got a little
Captin in ya?



Kari and the Travel mug
may it rest in peace :(



Lupins




some form of fungi growing on a log


Ahhhh..........The wild strawberries,
Yummmmm, they were delicious!!!



Picture time, in the middle of the road
I guess?!?!?!?!?!



The View


Joe Cool :)



What the heck is he doing? and Who
the hecks Husband is this?


Oh WOW, I see what he was doing now!!!


Yes we are CRAZY!!!!!!





Sand bar



YES!!!! Victory!!!!!
I successfully managed to
submerge Kurtis in the Lake :)



Footprints


Oh Kurtis!!! You look SOOOO cold!?!?
I wonder why:)







Sand bar again............





A group shot of all of us that went

Gavin turns 4!!!!!!

Gavin turned 4 on the 27th of June and Nate & I were on vacation so we missed it :( but the boy's stayed at my Mom & Dads so I think they were alright :) (Pictures of our Vacation will be my next post) Gavin is really growing up fast, he is so inquisitive about EVERYTHING!!! "Mom where do clouds come from?, Mom why do people sin?, Mom where so we go when we DIE?, Mom why are the insides of our mouths all wet?" are you kidding me where does this stuff come from? He makes us laugh SO much I can hardly stand it :) Reed is also getting so big, he is running all over the place getting into literally EVERYTHING!!!! He does'nt like to play with toys for the most part, he just likes to play with everything he's not supposed to :) Yikes!!!! well we have to go to another baseball game today :) so I have to sign off

Catching up!!!!!!~

Ok so I'm sorry its taken so long to get back to posting!!! The summer has been a very busy one already!!
So to start on June 21st I ran in my first 5k marathon and FINISHED!!!!!! I finished 135 overall but 65 of those were 10k runners also so more like 70th!!!! :) it was such a great accomplishment for myself!!! I finished with a time of 41.16 min I think.......not great but not bad for my first run!!! I didn't think :) I started taking this running








the starting line


Ok...nice


I made it!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Ok so funny story about this
Girl...... I was running the whole
last mile, so I was not really paying
much attention to anything but my running
and finishing, then all of a sudden this little twit
ran past me and got about 15 feet in front of me and
started walking then I would get right up by her
and she would take off again then she would stop about 15 feet
in front again, then she looked back at me and smiled and took off
again when I got just about up to her, I couldn't believe I was being antagonized by a 4 year old!!!


All done with the race and just
resting!!!


The whole running group from the class I went
to in Zumbrota.

Ok so I have a ton more posts to do but I need to get ready for the day........THE FOURTH IS HERE!!!!!!!!!