At the Lake, Labor Day weekend

Randomly Joshua covered his head with his blanket and started playing peek-a-boo in the car on the way to the lake. It was pretty funny.

This would be Mallory playing peek-a-boo also.

Look how far out I am grandpa! Aunt Brenda brought along a couple baby boats for Mallory and Joshua. It kept Joshua entertained in the water for awhile and we didn't have to be right next to him the whole time making sure he didn't drown.

I can swim by myself with this dandy baby boat.

Walking around with mom.

Playing in the sand.

Mallory playing in the sand.

Both of us playing in the sand.

Laying on my back in the water with aunt Brenda's help.

Being in the water is so much fun.

Getting a little pull.

Ha ha! Look at grandpa try to miss the water!

SOAKED!

I even help pour the water over me.

So much fun!


I just loved dumping water on myself!

Mallory eating corn on the cob.

Whoops! She eats it like Joshua too.

Mallory sitting on their suitcase... must be a good chair, she's even lounging.

Mallory back on the suitcase and Joshua found the box of crackers.

I think she's had enough.

Joshua's 1st boat ride. We finally squeezed in a ride before leaving to go home. This was probably the happiest he looked, the rest of the time he was almost falling asleep even with the rough waves!
Brenda & Mallory came along for a boat ride too. Mallory seemed to enjoy it a little more or was at least more awake than Joshua, she was clapping and even trying to get down to walk around.

Thank You Grandpa for the boat ride!

This 'n' That...

Adam & classmate David Knefelkamp.

The group who participated at Knefelkamp's ordination/installation.

Joshua can get this door on the right side of the hutch open (not sure how we're going to keep him out of it to actually store things in that side). This is him before he sorta fell out.

This would be a drawer from the kitchen Joshua pulled out and climbed right in all by himself.

Joshua's playing with his balloon he got to take home after Mallory's 1st birthday party. He absolutely loved the balloon.

We got him to eat sweet corn and here, dad is helping him hold it the right way, he is getting a good bite out of it.
But then he prefered to eat it this way... he does this with a chicken leg too, hmm.

At the fair...

We went to the Pipestone County Fair and what did we see? A Llama at the children's petting barn. We made sure to take pictures and yes, we had Sarah Ebert in mind.

Joshua & Mallory by the Llama.

I think the Llama is ignoring us.

Sorry Sarah, but the Donkey is what Joshua liked.

I wanna touch the llama, but I can't quite reach.

Although the idea is to pick out ducks to win a prize, all Mallory wanted to do for $5 is play is the water. Joshua got out to help her figure out what to do, he picked one out that helped her win a medium prize.

Aebleskiver Days

Tyler, a town about 20 minutes northish of us, each year celebrates Aebleskiver Days, which is of Danish heritage. So we decided to go see what it was all about. There is actually a type of food called an Aebleskiver, they are about the size of a tennis ball and pretty much taste like a pancake. We weren't thinking and didn't get a picture of them. Here is a link to learn more about the Aebleskiver: www.aebleskiver.com

Here is the old Danish school. Upstairs are little dormitory rooms, people were actually staying in them during Aebleskiver Days so then we weren't able to see what those looked like.
This is what one of the plates of food they were serving looked like!

Not really a whole lot here for a little boy to eat. But I decided to try a few things anyway.

Hmm what's this white thing with red skin (radish) taste like?

Taking a bit of a cucumber.

Aunt Brenda & cousin Mallory met us in Tyler, here it was time for a pony ride.

If we remember right my pony was named "Alfalfa". I could even hold on with only one hand!

Just going for a ride. Mom's doing all the work this time keeping me on as both hands are in the air. Here it looks like I'm having a little more fun. I stayed on the for the whole ride while Mallory (in back) jumped off before they came to a stop.

Tearing off wallpaper, Painting, and the Results...

Joshua helped us remove the wallpaper from the dining area, kitchen and front entry.

This was the lovely stuff on 2 of the 4 walls in our front entry. He was helping take this off also, but then would try to put it back up on the wall.

Since we were doing some of it, we decided to do it all so the fridge came out and this was the beautiful stuff behind the fridge. It was so old it came down in only about 2 big pieces.

Painting "whipple blue" in our kitchen.

Painting "Butte rock" in our living room.

Here a couple ladies from church worked hard rolling on the paint in our living room.

The west wall of the living room all finished.

The north wall finished.

Our dining area now all blue; the west and south walls.

Our kitchen, also blue. Eight ladies from church came over to help paint. They arrived around 8 am and were all finished around 2 pm (with a lunch break included). It went super fast with so much help!