Air Museum

I have so many posts that I need to write up and put pictures to... As I say at the beginning of each post, I have so many photos from clients that I need to get through before I'm comfortable with going through mine... and when I'm all caught up I think, Woooo computer break :)  

I figured this would be a quick couple pictures to look through and post for ya :) 

We went to the Air Museum over the weekend.  We have been having so much fun with the boys lately.  They have begun playing games, being interested in what we say, wanting to be involved in all (ok most) aspects of all we do.  

G has been playing with his little toy plane for the last week or so.  The poor thing is totally falling apart.  The pup ate the things propellers forever ago and it doesn't have landing gear left, but G loves it.  When G is asleep and L is up he claims it as his own.  We try to get house/life stuff done on Saturdays when Hubs is home (since he's gone so many Saturdays) but we thought it would be so much more fun to actually do something other than naps and moving boxes and bringing laundry upstairs.  

The boys were so excited on our drive there.  Thankfully it was only 5 minutes because they asked every half a minute if we were there yet.  When we walked in all three boys went in different directions.  M & G went right to the gift shop but at different ends, and L strutted along saying COOL, WOW, PLANE, SPACE SHUTTLE at every plane he saw.

My 4 handsome boys.  Hubs, M on the left, G on the right and L in the middle front.

I had the pleasure of following L around.  He screamed at every plane he saw.  He was so excited.

Hubs got to take the bigs around.  He was really enjoying reading different signs and names of planes to them.  He was surprised that they actually wanted to know what the signs said.

There was a little rocker plane that L (actually all 3 boys) got to sit on and rock.

There was even a helicopter that they were allowed to 'fly'.  (This is G)

Daddy got to 'fly' L around.  I had to crop the picture so you could get a good look at the smile on L's face.

So glad we decided to walk away from our Saturday chores to go do something different.  All the boys even got to bring home a little die-cast airplane from the museum.  They have been having so much fun with them the last few days.

MN Zoo Trip

It has been so long since I blogged.  I'm keeping busy growing my photography business.  I have been having several shoots a month.  I'm really kinda proud of myself.  From where I have come to where I can see myself going....it's pretty cool.

Anyway, I've been putting my family's pictures on hold to work on other peoples pictures.  I finally just took a folder out and decided to post them before fall turns into winter.  I still have some summer photos to post.  

Hubs and I take turns with the camera when we are on little day trips.  I refuse to not be in some of the pictures.  So quite often I switch the camera onto automatic so Hubs can take pictures too.  He does a really good job when it's on manual, it just takes him a while and in a situation like this zoo he (and probably I) would have missed the pictures.  

G in green and M in blue.

L loved EVERYTHING about the zoo!!

He talked to the fish for like 20 minutes.

The zoo had a playground that all the boys thoroughly enjoyed.

I love L's faces as he explores the slide and goes down all by himself.  I had to include all the pictures.

He had so much fun he had to do it again.

This time even less help was needed.

We had so much fun at the zoo.  We stayed at a hotel in the cities and had a blast at the pool, which included a water slide.  The big boys did such a great job swimming and went down the slide non stop. I will post those pictures (hopefully) soon.

Monster TRUCKS!!!

Back on the 2nd (Hubs big birthday 30!!!) we took the boys to Monster Jam.  I remember asking hubs about being able to do this way back in the summer.  At that time he said not this year.  He went on to say that he felt the boys were too young to 'witness' monster trucks and demolition derby.  In January when he saw that Monster Jam was coming to the Fargo Dome he bought 4 tickets.  I said to him, "What happened to the boys being too young this year?"  He laughed.  I was SO excited!  I think I was more excited about it than any of the 3 of them.  

We waited until the middle of the week to tell the boys that we were going to see monster trucks on Saturday.  They weren't overly excited.  I was bummed.  I thought they would be screaming, jumping up and down, you know, going crazy.  

On Friday we told them again that we were going to see monster trucks tomorrow.  They were a little more excited but still not as thrilled as I imagined.  I don't think they totally understood what we were going to be doing.

Saturday morning came and I was so giddy.  Of course we started the morning off with saying Happy Birthday to the hubs.  I can't remember but I hope I made a decent breakfast that morning :/ haha  Then he took the two Bigs to one of his students basketball games.  They came home and he snuggled with them while watching a short show....

Then we left the Little Man with my mom and we were on our way.  

Here we are pulling into the Fargo Dome.

We saw a derby car being trailed.  We assumed he was from the previous nights show.

We all know I take a lot of pictures, but a hundred plus at Monster Jam might be a tad excessive.  :o

The boys were allowed to bring one monster truck each to the show.  Sadly, neither of the trucks they brought were at the stadium. :(   They didn't seem to care.

Yes that is basically the same picture with different trucks.  :)

The monster trucks took a little break and the dirt bikes came out.

Three men on dirt bikes riding in a ball cage.  Pretty cool.  

I think Hubs and my favorite part of the show were the dirt bike stunts.

When Hubs saw this one (above) he started cracking up.  I honestly had no idea what they were doing while I was taking pictures.  I was trying to watch, trying to take pictures and trying to not annoy the sweet thrilled little boy that was sitting on my lap by hitting him in the head with my camera.

The boys liked the dirt bikes but they were even happier when the monster trucks came back out.

They even got to see one roll over.

The boys loved it and Hubs had a great birthday.

M was extremely emotional when we left.  He was crying these huge crocodile tears because he didn't want it to be over.  He insisted that they were still going to race and we were going to miss it.  They left the trucks on the stadium floor so we understood his thinking.  I felt so bad that we had to take him away.

We got the boys buckled in the car and inched through the line of cars.  They both fell fast asleep before we even left the parking lot.  Maybe 5 minutes?  They were so tired.

We got home and woke them up so we could eat some birthday cake... with a lot of candles.

Hubs favorite... Chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting.

I didn't take a picture of his second cake from when we celebrated with his parents and brother and his wife.  It was an Andes Mint cake (chocolate cake baked with crushed Andes Mints and mint frosting with chocolate ganache on top).