Minnesota!!

It's been a while since the Blog has been updated. We've got all settled into our new place and took the long awaited trip to Minnesota! We flew out early Saturday morning and landed around noon. We stayed at a hotel Saturday and Sunday and drove to our cabin on Monday. While we were in Minneapolis we went to the temple, went to Mall of America and went to a really cool museum. Oh and we ate at Applebee's twice! So here are some of the pictures....

St.Paul/Minneapolis Temple. Mom, Kameron and I did an afternoon session. There were only like 10 people in session, much smaller than a Saturday afternoon at the Mesa temple. But it we had a good time and I'm glad we got to go.

Mall of America!!

So fun! There were some crazy rides and I don't know if it's because I'm a year older or what but I could only ride half of what I used to be able to do! But it was so much fun shopping too!!! I loved shopping there. Had to have a lot of self control, but it was amazing!

The Museum

Here is Kameron and I with a moose head.

And Kameron in the fish section.

Us with the Bear

Ava and "Hedwig"

There was a snake you could touch and an albino squirrel and goat, dinosaur bones, tons of birds and wildlife and wolves! We had a really fun time there.

So after our fun filled day on Sunday we went to Mall of America one more time cause we didn't really go on Saturday, but than we drove like 2 hours to our cabin on Sandy Lake in the little town of Moose Lake it was outside of Klokay and about an hour from Duluth. Janel got there on Tuesday. We pretty much just fished and swam in the lake in the backyard! And we went to Digger's house for some BBQ's and music. We also got to go drive in monster trucks in the mud! It was really loud but it was fun to be with family and just have a good time!

The Family!!

Monster Trucks!

Jason, Kameron and Mark

Sisters!

Fishing!!

Here are some fish we caught. There were paddle boats and we had a fishing boat we could go out on. And the paddle boats actually worked really good, just all the paddling...But we mostly caught northern pike, small mouth bass and a couple rock bass, crappie and I caught a small perch. We also went fishing on the river. Kameron caught some feisty bass but other than that we just got the experience of fishing on the river.

The northers have really sharp teeth and they are really slimy! So you have to be careful. Early Saturday morning we took a trip out with Dad's cousin and caught a boat full of pike. There is a monster pike out there because it took me under the boat, Mom and Dad all on different outings, but it just cut the line and we could never see it or catch it!! We need to go back to catch it!

On Saturday we had a mini family reunion because the majority of us left on Sunday.

Here are the kiddos..who are growing up so fast it's crazy!!

And here is a picture of everyone there on Saturday.

It was so much fun being with family and Minnesota is just beautiful!! I wish we could live by the water like that and all the green!! I just don't know about the winters...yikes. I can't wait to go back again (hopefully sooner this time)!!