Sales, Parks, and Mother's Day

We've been hitting a lot of garage sales lately. You can find so many great things at 8:00 am on Saturday, it got me wondering: why didn't we ever go garage saleing before? Oh yeah, because we used to be able to sleep in until 11:00 am. A few of our biggest steals include a new Eddie Bauer screen tent for only $25, a Columbia winter jacket for Elsa, and some microphone stands for Tim. Elsa seems to like going to sales with us, until she says,"One more gagage sale." Then we know we're starting to push it.
After dragging her around to sales all morning, we take her to her favorite place, the park. Last weekend we went to 3 different parks in one day. These pictures were taken at Paradise Park in Chisago City.

Elsa and Tim on the BIG slide.


She loves throwing rocks into the lake.


Crawling through a tunnel.


Dad having fun and looking giant on the swings.


A few of Elsa's most recent discoveries:

Corn on the cob.


Dandelions.


Trying to be gentle (but kind of squishing) a caterpillar.


Today was our last day of ECFE. Instead of our normal class, we went outside for an hour and then came inside for the last half hour to eat a picnic lunch. The teachers handed out a class picture (Elsa wasn't in it because she missed class last week), along with a hand print she'd done a couple weeks before. They also got a container of playdoh to take home, and I got a stack of pictures the teacher had taken of Elsa throughout the year. I had no idea they took so many of her - there must have been 20. Here's a picture of her on the playground today.

Me and a few of the other moms plan to meet at a park during our usual Monday class time during the summer. It'll be great for us all to keep in contact. More photos of those adventures to come.

And finally, Elsa and Mom on Mother's Day.