Swimming & Birthday Celebration

We just got back from North Dakota after an awesome visit!! We truly enjoyed sharing time with our dear parents, genuine friends and taking time to just relax and celebrate Independence Day (also Grandma Ione's birthday). We went swimming, boating on the river, shared time with friends on Lake Isabel and saw an incredible fireworks display, took in the zoo and the amusement park - twice, shared cold beverages with friends on hot summer nights, shared more cold beverages with friends at the park while our kids played together, Dave got to golf, we slept in and spent lots of time outdoors. Bismarck is just such a fantastic place and the fact that it takes 5-10 min. to get anywhere in town is so amazing. No metro traffic and lots of friendly people that actually speak English - how refreshing!! The sad part is we did a horrible job of taking time to get out the camera & video camera, not only in ND but the entire month of June and into July.

We did mangage to capture the grand finale of their very first swimming lessons (without mom and dad in the water with them) which Grandma & Papa Good got to see firsthand the day LTD left for ND for 9 days without us!! They never cried even once for us while they were there!! They had so much fun and got a chance to share quality time with Papa & Grandma Clark and Papa & Grandma Kemmet too. They had absolutely no problem moving around from place to place. I think Dave and I missed them WAY more than they even had time to think about us. Mama Bear cried ALOT more than her cubs did. We also got a chance to capture on film the 4th of July birthday celebration of Grandma Ione. LTD had a blast singing, blowing out candles and eating ice cream cake and frosting.

We are back to MN and the kiddos have been formally introduced to their new bedrooms. Stay tuned for video and photos of the big transition!! Check out our KodakGallery link on this page (right hand column) for photo memories from June to mid-July. We vow to do a much better job the rest of the summer taking videos and photos.