Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!!!

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Duluth

We finally made it up to Duluth to see Lake Superior and some of the sights. The weather was beautiful and the lake felt like the ocean. Here are some of the photos.

The lift bridge-amazing to watch it lift for the various sized ships passing through

The tour boat ride. Notice the sweettarts the kids have--nearly started a riot fighting over them later in the ride, but they sure enjoyed them :)

Grant braving the frigid water

Ty was eventually in up to his thighs--he's a fish

Garrett, too

Shayla playing on the boat in park point

Gooseberry Falls State Park was AMAZING!

Hiking at Gooseberry

The upper falls

Grant throwing rocks into the lake

Tyler teaching Miya how to throw rocks (as opposed to EAT rocks like she wanted to)

Tyler and I wondering why we thought sleeping with 5 kids in 1 hotel room was a good idea...

Lake Superior

Factoids for you: It is so deep you could put the empire state building in the lake it would all be below the surface.

The area of the lake is roughly the size of Indiana.

If you flooded North and South America with the water in Lake Superior it would cover the entire land mass with 1 foot of water.

Miya spent a lot of time in her stroller

Enjoying the view

On the boat tour

FEET! Notice Miya's painted toes :)

Although we had our moments, the kids were troopers and it was a great family-togetherness weekend.

Tyler used his creative-balancing skills to get this photo of all of us together.

Hopefully more posts to come!

kid funnies

Hello, neglected blog. Sometimes I wonder why I have a blog, just so I can feel guilty about not posting most likely :)

Just had to record a few of the funny things being said around here lately.

Grant: I know what "shoo fly" means.

Mom: Really, what does it mean?

Grant: It means you take a shoe and you squish a fly with it.

Garrett was talking about talents he has and said, "pretty much everything is a talent."

Shayla thought that was ridiculous and said, "Yeah, right, Garrett. My nose isn't a talent!"

Garrett shot back, "Well if you could wiggle it it would be."

One of the best things about having young kids is the constant free entertainment. Who needs TV? But if you need more of a laugh, check out this. Tyler and I went to see Brian Regan in Minneapolis lately and laughed so hard our faces hurt.

Hope to post more soon!