Sunday, August 30, 2009

The Magic Kingdom

Finnian spent his final week of summer vacation at the Magic Kingdom- otherwise known as Grandma and Grandpa's house.
A place so divine, you get to stand on the chest freezer to reach and choose from many sweet cereals. Lucky Charms, Apple Jacks, Captain Crunch, Frosted Flakes. They are all there.
A place so warm, that you spend the morning picking apples and the afternoon enjoying all their loveliness in an apple crumb cake topped with ice cream AND caramel sauce.
A place so exciting, that you get to eat dinner at restaurants over and over and over. This includes "old fashioned car night" at the local drive in. When you're a guest at the Magic Kingdom, you even get to gawk at the cars 3 and 4 times before being required to dive into your cardboard flat box of smiley fries.

In this series, you'll notice the kids with Grandpa's "barn fresh" rat rod. Finnian has already helped Grandpa bleed the brakes and take it on many spins around Cochrane.


Grandma giving Rock Climbing lessons.


And-- while Finnian had his Magic Kingdom time, Adalia and I had a girl only night with pink parfaits. We were sure to keep our pinky's up and start each sentence with "Actually,".

Friday, August 28, 2009

What?! Summer is ending?

Someone told me school starts next week. I gasped! They're right! Ugh! Please find below some of our summer highlights:

A night out? For real?

Our friends, The Wrights, made time to come up to the Falvey cabin. We had a great weekend.

Our good friends, Mary Therese and Dennis brought their Harleys through LaCrosse on their way to Michigan.


Adalia and Finnian assisted Ivy with her first carousal ride at Ella's Deli in Madison.
It was a success.

Adalia and some swing time with Great Aunt Karen and 2nd cousin, Rheanna


Matching girls (years of this to come!)


Minneapolis sculpture garden


The Queen is IN. (Duluth Children's Museum)