Outdoor Activities

Our household has been stricken with some sort of super strain Minnesota bird flu. Thus I haven't done anything fun or been anywhere exciting. It started with Tyson and has worked it's way through each of us, attacking us one at a time. It's the kind of virus where you feel so horrible, you just know you have pneumonia at the very least....if not bubonic plague or worse. These pictures are a few I've taken here and there, no rhyme or reason to this post.
One day while I was laying in my bed, contemplating if I met the criteria for meningitis, I could hear what I thought was a chainsaw going in the woods. It ended up being the Polaris team testing snowmobiles, right there in our back yard! Rick took a couple pictures, but couldn't get all that close. I found it very exciting, but missed it all.

The weather has been pretty decent. I find anything 20 degrees or higher isn't bad at all, especially if the sun is shining. Jenny and I bundled up the kids and got them outside for fresh air. You can see the snow is hitting Ava right about her ankle. Just not much snow to speak of. We didn't get a picture of all of us together like I'd planned, but Jenny and I each had a baby strapped to our chest. I just never pictured myself taking my 4 month old out in 20 degree weather for the sole purpose of wandering around in the snow.

Tyson cruising around on the lake.

This is just a funny picture of Tucker. He looks like a wild man on the attack. We don't go anywhere outside without at least one dog showing up to explore with us.

Our house sits in the campground. These are a few pictures to give you an idea of what it looks like. Our "driveway" is up there on the right. Tyson is doing some digging with his backhoe-- without a permit.

This is the view out Tyson's bedroom window. The gazebo is there on the left. Jenny and Brian got married there. There is also a Labor Day BBQ that takes place there. Those reds things are buoys from the lake. I have no idea why they sit there, I just like how it looks.

**I have another item to add to my bucket list. I plan to keep adding to this list and then look back at it in a year. Who knows what kind of crazy stuff I'll have listed there. I call it a bucket list in humor, but it is really a list of stuff I have never given one thought to in my life. Sometimes those are the things that stand out and make you smile more than any carefully planned event.

1. Breastfeed baby while icefishing.

2. Attend a tupperware party in a bar on a Friday afternoon.

**Sidenote #2: My parents are headed this way to visit next week. Don't think I've abandoned the blog if I don't write for that time. I plan to spend every moment hugging on my momma and won't likely be sitting down to the computer.