Blinds

Our week started a little stressful when we thought Marlo had COVID for about 12 hours. She didn't feel well all weekend then had a very, very faint positive test Sunday night. We ran up to St. Cloud to switch places with Grandma Sandra because we had a blinds installation appointment Monday that we did NOT want to have to reschedule. We've been waiting months for these blinds. 

Monday morning Marlo tested negative and felt fine. We hung out in St. Cloud most of Monday while our blinds were hung. They are so beautiful and we are so happy to have them. Now Rob can work comfortably in his office and we can maybe prolong our wood floors without the bright sun beating down on them.

Marlo and I ran back down to the Cities for Kasper's cross country meet Monday afternoon. It was sunny but frigid.

 

Blinds and house numbers and mums!

 

The sunsets out our windows are truly amazing.

 

Marlo watching an iPad. Why don't some kids sit on a couch or chair? 

 

Kasper slept over at a friend's house last night so we took little sister out for ice cream. It was 70 degrees last night and almost 80 today. I love those last gasps of summer.

 

We also took Marlo for a bike ride into town for pastries. Yum. 

 

Always messes up every blanket and pillow in a room. Also yeets her socks all over.

   

One of Rob's college buddies lives right down the road and his family has a pumpkin farm so they sell pumpkins in the neighborhood. Gourds really come in some cool shapes.

   

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Snow!

A day late. Oops. 

Enjoy our view. 

 

And another.

 

We are so happy to be home. 

Kasper had his first cross country meet last week! There have been meets but he's missed them because of ultimate frisbee practice. He finally got to go to one. It was sunny with black skies at the beginning and hailing at the end. The duration of the bad weather matched exactly to the 12 minutes Kasper was running. 

We got our first snow Friday! 

Marlo got her hands on some large cardboard boxes.

 

 

The snow was gone by the time Kasper played his last soccer game of the season.

 

Whew! Hope everyone had a great weekend!

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 Rob and I celebrated our 14 year wedding anniversary this week! Time really flies. We got take out sushi and ate at home admiring our view. We had a nice sized buck join us for dinner. 

Marlo got ahold of my phone one night. 

We had dinner with cousins Friday night. They really do play together really well despite the age range. 

Marlo went to a birthday party last night with black lights, music and neon face paint. Of course she had the best time and when Rob went to pick her up, he got to join in the fun. 

 

We had a busy week of practices, lessons, blah, blah, blah. It's nice to recharge over the weekend with these colors all around us. They get better by the day!

 

THESE COLORS 

Hope everyone had a great weekend! 

Happy fall y'all

We're getting the hang of things. Not taking any photos of the things, but we're getting the hang of them. 

Kasper is enjoying cross country running and ultimate frisbee. Marlo is enjoying swimming lessons and being 8 years old and in a third grade class with her bffs. I have been enjoying the fall colors in our own backyard (front yard technically). Side note, we have some good grass growing.

Kasper's soccer team beat their opponents like 13-1 yesterday. The other team put an extra player on the field (there were no refs) and scored in the last minute. 

And that's it! Here we are starting yet another week. Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Finding the groove

It's a rare week that neither Rob nor I took a single picture but here we are. We are getting into the groove of being back to school, being at 2 different schools, after school activities, etc. Kasper is getting the hang of middle school and gets around without a map now. It sounds like they finally got lockers on Friday so he doesn't have to carry around his big backpack every day. He started on the cross country running team this week and so far seems to be liking it! Rob took him to the running store to get him fitted for good running shoes so he's beginning to look the part. He also started Ultimate Frisbee which meets once a week! Marlo started swimming lessons. Add to that homework for both kids every night and we busy. 

Since we didn't take our own pictures, please enjoy this family pic we got back from our picture session with our favorite photographer Gina. 

Hope everyone had a great weekend! 

Back to school!

 The kids went back to school this week! Marlo is in 3rd grade and is in elementary school without her brother but is doing just fine with basically all of her bffs in her class. 

Kasper started middle school! And takes the bus from home now.We don't hear a whole lot about middle school but I think each day gets a little easier just learning how to get from class to class. He doesn't really know anyone in his classes but he'll be starting some activities soon. 

He and Rob started working out in the mornings.

Fall soccer started this weekend somehow they play most of their games at the end of our road! We can walk there! It was a beautiful weekand and the team won. The teams are grades 6-8 so it's fun to see the younger kids and older kids interact. I think it's good for everyone. Red number 1 is Kasper.

 

Whew. School really came out of nowhere. Hope everyone had a great weekend!