Earlier in the Spring

Spring is crazy. Some days you'll be in coats and hats, while other days you'll be taking the baby's shirt off.

Poor kid gets banged up a lot at this age.

But he still has the cutest smile.

Trying to Create a Cozy Atmosphere

The heater is running in our room. I have a nice candle burning, the twinkly lights are on, and I cleaned up a bit. Sometimes I feel like our room gets most forgotten. I used to like a nice cozy bedroom so I had a calm peaceful place to escape to. Somehow, I haven't used our room for much other than sleeping in recently. Anyway, today is cold and rainy, so I decided to try to fix the bedroom a bit. There are bigger things I would love to do to it, but for now I'll appreciate this. 

Adventures in Duluth

Some of us made the daring climb up a gated and locked tower.

The view from the top looking out toward Lake Superior.

Lake Superior always blows up very cold wind. 

What started as dipping our toes in the freezing water...

...ended with Jacob and Andrew daring each other to crazier stuff, including dunking their entire heads in. Haha! Thankfully they didn't continue to a polar plundge or anything. 

The gray clouds gave way to this beautiful blue that reflects so perfectly in the water. 

What a fun but cold day!

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Adventures in Minnesota

Giant lego sets at the Mall of America.

It's a terrible picture, but Jacob and his brother and sister-in-law rode on this rollercoaster. Apparently it was a real humdinger. I went on a less exciting one, but it was enough for me. 

I didn't know the Mall of America was so big until we went again. 

Our kids were surprisingly into the chickens. 

I took a ride on the metro train. It was interesting experience to say the least. At one stop, the police kicked some people off the train. 

Adventures With Faith

For spring break, we drove all the way up to Minnesota where Jacob's brother Andrew and my sister Priscilla live with their families. A couple nights before we left, Jacob met up in Nashville to pick up his younger sister Faith. We ended up having a mostly rainy day doing random stuff with her before we all left for MN. 

A train stopped on the tracks for some reason, so we had to take pictures.

Jacob was able to grab ahold of the train.

It was topped two high most of the train.

After a rough afternoon of not getting a rental car we were supposed to get, we had dinner at Texas Roadhouse.

Clearly, Taliya was enjoying herself.

We all were. : )

This was on our voyage north. 

Stayed tuned for the rest of the story......