Month: June 2011
Some Smooth Moves
Soccer is big here where we live in Minnesota. Blaine has the National Sports Center which is the world’s largest amateur sports and meeting facility. Lots of soccer fields and lots of soccer. Little guy decided it was high time he got involved!
He has a lot of smooth moves which he had no problem exhibiting.
Sometimes you have to take a break.
Hummm…. light bulb moment!
More smooth moves coming up!
“Hey, this is cool, gotta’ show this to the guys!”
“Hey look at this! You can hang the field markers on your ears!”
Little Guy is truly an inspiration to his team mates.
And vice a versa.
“We bad…uh huh…you know it…we bad! Don’t mess with us…we bad!”
This is the stuff award winning athletes are made of!
Nothing like an award and forced smile to end the perfect soccer experience. 
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Soudan Mine
Some rocks from inside the mine.
The above-ground facilities at Soudan Underground Mine State Park have reopened, but the park is unlikely to be able to offer underground tours this summer. Until clean-up, repairs, and thorough safety inspections are completed, the DNR is unable to speculate on future underground tours. In March 2011 there had been a fire down inside the mine. You can see the story here.
The park plans to offer guided tours of the historic buildings above ground this summer. Like the underground tours, the above-ground tours will focus on the contributions of mining to the history and culture of Minnesota’s iron range.
Worn stairs.
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Camping In Minnesota
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Connected At The Hip
Mandy and Renner…not really connected at the hip, though Mandy might be more than happy if it were true. Mandy has been with us for about 6 months and though this very people shy girl has opened up she still does a lot of hiding behind Renner. Renner was like that when he first came to us many years back but now is pretty comfortable at playing people shield and big brother to Miss Mandy.
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Pipestone National Monument
Too much water!
We have been to Pipestone before, but never with this much water. It was pretty hard to check out the quarries as they had all turned into little ponds.
The streams and waterfalls were swollen to the brim and rushing with power.
Still there was plenty of beautiful Pipestone to see and play on that was not underwater and we enjoyed the park just as much as before, especially seeing its ‘wet’ personality. Mother Nature does her share of dressing the park differently in accordance to the seasons.
Renner: “Hummm, that sign wasn’t here last time was it?”
Mandy: “I don’t think it was a big water bowl last time…..”
Ruby: “Maybe we should just get back to the car and hit a Dairy Queen on the way home!”
Renner: “Sounds like a plan, let’s go!”
Mandy: “I’m right behind ya big brother.”
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Mini Shopper
This would be Little Guy doing some shopping at Trader Joe’s. Very selective he is.
“Where is that Hidden Chicken….I want my free sucker!” (Just a little game Trader Joe’s provides for their younger clientele.)
Renner: “Did you see any treats for us in that basket? I didn’t.” 
Mandy: “Me neither. Sigh….”
Here Again (an update)
Just got back Wednesday afternoon to find out that we were going camping on Friday through the weekend. So I am just now getting to the update after returning from camping yesterday.
I was at my parent’s home for a while due to my Dad having surgery. We found that he has Stage 3 colon cancer. Took him a bit to get released, he was in the hospital for 6 days after the surgery and we were happy to be able to get him back home again. I stayed on a little while longer than previously planned due to his extended stay in the hospital but he is home now and, upon my leaving, was eating and doing everything pretty well. He will go through Chemo and, at this point, not sure what else will be included in his treatment until they talk with the Oncologist next week. We feel that the prognosis is very good at this point.
The camping trip, well I was feeling on the tired side so didn’t do a lot, but tagged along for just about everything, as did Renner, Mandy and Ruby. I didn’t get a lot of photos this time but everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves. No big storms or a lot of rain but it was still rather chilly for mid-June – hey it’s Minnesota…what can I say? 
Still there was some serious horsing around. This is little guy and his Bampa being plain old silly around the campfire.
We did not go to a state park this time, but to a commercial campground just north of St. Cloud, MN.
I was going to put Renner, Mandy and Ruby up here in this post as well, but apparently our server has just decided to deny me access to my picture folders SO, guess more photos will have to wait unless I can dig something up on my computer locally. Let me see…
Mandy: “OH give it UP Mom, you didn’t get any good photos anyway! BTW…Renner is getting all the good scritches! Do something!!!!”
Ok, so there you have it, no good photos of the camping trip this time, but there is always next time. And as far as Mandy is concerned I’d better get to giving her some equal scritching time.
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