It's been a long time....

It's been a long time since I've updated, and although there has been much to tell, there hasn't been much time to talk. Or blog.

Over the summer, we've gone camping...highlights of one of the camping trips is that one of my children-on-the-dock-fears came true--Luke fell off the dock and into the water. Luckily, it was in the shallow end, but still. He was pretty upset about it. Yes, I took a picture anyway.

This was taken just before Luke fell in.

Dripping wet, but lesson learned.

That was in June. In July, we celebrated Luke's 6th birthday.

We also celebrated America's birthday....

Lucy and Anna got their crazy 4th of July hair done again.

It was also the first year we let the kids do sparklers. Rather scary!

We went to visit Minnesota's largest candy store...it had a lot, but I wouldn't say it was a huge place.

And that was it! We had one more camping trip, and some visi