A few weeks ago we drove up to Grand Marais on a Saturday in a quest to see beautiful leaves and ate lunch at one of our favorite restaurants, The Crooked Spoon.  Mr. Sneaky Pants ordered an amazingly delicious peanut butter apple sandwich from the kids menu.  Next time I’m…

Yes, believe it or not, there are actually two boys in our church with Samson hair (maybe even more?!?)  Mr. SP and this small guy have become fast friends.  We met his family a few weeks ago actually, when our family and his family both ended up at the same…

Some friends of ours from church, actually our babysitter’s family, started a pumpkin patch/fall festival this year, with festivities happening each weekend in October.  We’ve been meaning to go, and because the weather was beautiful again this weekend, we thought Sunday afternoon would be a good time.  We had loads…

The Banana and Ya Ya were enjoying their supper outside on the deck. I was inside feeding Squirmy. The Banana:  Well, pee on me, Ya Ya! Ya Ya:  What? The Banana:  Pee on me. Ya Ya:  What did you just say? The Banana:  PEE ON ME!  Ya Ya, it’s another…

Here is everyone in the family who was home this morning on the couch together, even the cat!  The Banana was playing with the “little toucher” otherwise known as Dr. Peds’ ipod.  Dr. Peds was looking up something on the ipad.  Squirmy was being his squirmy self.  And the phone…

I’ve been wanting to go to this beach all summer.  We will be going back to the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.  It was beautiful.  The sand was terrific for playing in too.  The crisp evening air was calm and refreshing.  Lake Superior happened to be calm.  The sunset was amazing.…

I love, love LOVE this picture.  More writing is to soon come about sunset at the beach on the south shore.  There are more images too.  Stay tuned. I don’t often have the lens I used to take this image on my camera when we are at a beach.  I’m…

If I could pick absolutely any place to live, with no strings attached, I am pretty sure Bayfield WI would be on my list of best choices.  I love that town!  It’s so beautiful, small and unique.  We zipped over there on Sunday after church to watch the Apple Festival…

We spent the middle of our day today at the Art Institute.  This is the second time we’ve been to Family Day there, and I must say, both times have been spectacular fun.  Today we made prints, sculpted with clay, created yarn collages and mosaics, folded paper flowers, made masks,…