Everyone loves swimming here, and since it’s the height of summer, at least 70% of the days of each week we have been heading to a creak, river, or the pludmale (beach).  Each and every one of those places has it’s advantages, (cold water, warm water, etc.) and there’s general…

Mr. Trouble on Feet chose donuts for breakfast in the bathtub, so one of our host daughters and I made a very quick trip to the bakery early in the morning to bring back a box of yumminess.  There was lots of playing outside and many bike rides in the…

There are SO many more pictures from Sunday Night at the Beach that I’d love to share with you, but can’t due to the rules about posting pictures of the girls we are hosting through P143.  We love our beach time, and so do they! The four girls started out…

We are about half way through our summer hosting experience through P143, and things are going really well!  Although we have hosted twice before, both experiences were during the cold Minnesota winter, so it has been really great to have the opportunity to do so many fun things outside this…

The day that I picked up Mr. SP from music camp and heard his awesome concert, I dropped off YaYa. She was able to go a day early so that I didn’t make two trips, and then stayed for two weeks.  We have a little tradition of taking a picture…

I’m behind on a lot of posts, so bear with me!  A few weeks ago Noah spent seven days at International Music Camp.  It was his first time, and it went well.  His trumpet playing sounds so much better and it was motivating for him to play in an ensemble…

These images are actually from a couple of weeks ago, and just getting posted now because the image card they were on was accidentally left in North Dakota at my mother-in-laws, along with my camera for two weeks.  She tried mailing the card, but it was temporarily lost in the…

I literally took hundreds of pictures of our host daughters experiencing Lake Superior in its chilly summer glory for the first time, but I am not able to share most of those pictures publicly.  However, here are a few pictures from last Sunday night that I am allowed to share.…

Mr. Trouble on Feet has been helping our blue house neighbors with their vegetable garden.  He loves these neighbors with all his heart, and they are super patient with his long winded conversations and always willing to take a little time to help him play with their dogs and ride…

They’ve arrived, and we’ve had a truly fantastic first week!  We’ve never been able to rehost before, so it was so delightful to see these girls run right back into our home and look for all their favorite things. Things have gone so much more smoothly so far as well,…