Family pictures 2014.

Our wonderful photographer Renee stopped by our house

to snap some pictures for the year.

We love her & the work she does!

Here's some shots from this year...

Lake Edward 2014.

 We just got back from the Herdina family vacation.

We start out the week by leaving early in the morning 

& going to Nisswa crazy days before we can check-in to our cabin.

When we finally got everything unpacked we headed for the beach...

and kind of took over! 

Vance loved jet-ski rides with dad. 

The cousins all played so nice & Sadie was our built in babysitter for Vance! 

Every night when the younger kids went to bed it was time for cards, drinks, & more food. 

 Fishin in the dark. 

 Every morning we would wake up & watch some cartoons before

we went & woke up grandma & grandpa to join us for breakfast.

 The boys learned how to play UNO & they played morning til night, 

even on the beach!

Evening pontoon rides & some fishing.

We had such nice weather! 

Adler caught a northern & was so excited!

The poor kid felt like he cranked in a shark...it was great. 

Then Brock caught the biggest sunny I'd ever seen.

Uncle Shane sure did a great job helping everyone & taking fish off the hooks non-stop. 

 Fishing with grandpa.

 This little guy loved wearing his lifejacket!

More UNO on the porch. 

Grandma & grandpa came to visit us every morning in our cabin

until the other troops came down from the camper.

The boys just loved it. 

I found Vance snoozin on our bed (almost falling off).

He sure played hard & slept hard. 

I checked on him a little later & found him like this! haha 

G & G Herdina enjoying some time alone watching their grandkids tubing. 

 The jet skis were used all day long, pulling kids tubing & skiing. 

This is how Adler spent most of his week...on the outside part of the tube with Sam.

Those two couldn't get enough of it! 

Vance was a little dickens on vacation & we were so happy when he'd 

go with grandma & grandpa on the dock or in their cabin. 

More tubing. 

Grandma read Berenstein Bears to the kids every night before bed. 

 Having fun on the playground.

Relaxing on the beach with some morgan! 

Here's proof that Tracy actually got in the water!  

When we finally got home & picked up Olivia she sat by the boys 

so they could give her welcome home hugs & kisses. 

The Herdina vacation was wonderful at Lake Edward Resort.

We can't wait til next year to get back into cabin #5!

More summer fun.

The boys have been playing outside everyday with the neighbor boys.

One particular day they decided to catch frogs.

They filled a big cheese ball container full in about an hour.

Then they decided to dump them out and play with them.

Boys will be boys!

We got this lovely freebie from Camy's garage sale this summer.

Any hot day we have I hook up the trusty ol gopher sprinkler

(that Camy says was Rick's when he was little! haha)

& he surprises Vance when he pops up & shoots him with water! 

The Belseth's stopped by for an evening of fun.

We parents park ourselves in chairs by the garage and let the kids go wild 

with all of our toys.

Adella and Micah just love coming out to the 'country'! haha

Our conversion van was big hit for Adella.

She even asked if she could have a ride...and of course I took her on one. 

Between the go cart, electronic ride toys, conversion van, & desserts....

I'd say the night was a success! 

We had nothing going on one Sunday so we decided to go to G & G Johnson's 

& attend the Johnson Family Reunion at Lake Ripley too.

When we got to the farm grandma took the boys on a ride in her new tractor. 

And Vance was too scared to go for a ride, 

so I drove him around in the Ranger.

Then we headed off the Lake Ripley.

Ohhh the Johnson's...never a dull moment! 

Chad even brought along some tequila...so they polished off the bottle! 

Grandma Elois & I enjoying the summer afternoon.

After everyone loads up on all the potluck food it's time to start making

chatting clusters with our lawn chairs & that's just what people did.

Luke, Erin, and I decided to bike around the lake that day too...it was nice & sweaty!