I found this picture of my Daddy when he was a little kid, probably my age maybe a little older. What do you think - any sort of resemblance? I know I have Mom's blue eyes and blonde hair but, we sure look like clones if you ask me!
The fire truck came by and police car and a bunch of sirens that I DID NOT like. I wanted to stay away from those big loud trucks and just play on the swingset slide with Gabriella.
Above is my new favorite activity - playing Flight Simulator with Dad on the computer...he let's me steer the plane all of the time, but I always crash it. 
Mom dropped me off last Wednesday in St. Peter at McDonalds with Gma & Gpa and I spent the rest of the week with them in St. James! A little journy of pictures from my visit...surprising, but I don't have any pictures of Gma & Gpa. I swear they were there....hmmm....
Ellie, Gpa and I went on walks to the lake to throw rocks.
I loved this place - Mom has been telling me about Schmidt's Bakery since I was born. Yeah, I agree with her - they do have the best glazed donuts in the whole world, she sure wasn't lyin'
The girls and I played dress-up. I wouldn't let them put a dress on me though...I know I'm only 20 months old but I'm one smart cookie.
Zoester and I played at the park!
I went to swimming lessons too to watch the girls swim. Then we headed to Ellie's soccer practice - a couple action shots attached! I have a feeling I'm going to be a soccer playa like my Daddy was. He's not so quick & fast anymore but I heard he was lightening back in his younger days. Hee hee
Nice move, Ellie.
I found a friend at the field too.
That's my week. Hope you enjoyed my blog post Karis. I know you hawk my blog like no one else and wanted to keep you happy. Ha!
We celebrated Miss Rachel's 7th Birthday on Saturday night. Man, she had a ton of presents. Best part of all - I had a chance to sing Happy Birthday and eat a huge pice of chocolate cake heaped with frosting. Gpa even slid me an extra slice on the 'down low' - I'm not sure if the sugar high was the reason I was still up at 11pm calling for the ducks and boats??? 
Hey, Mom! What up woman
Here is Mr Michael...I love having another boy to play with!! We all went tubing again today. I went with my Momma and kept saying "Mama, rain!" because apparently I thought it was raining when it was really the splashes coming straight for my face. Duh!
Chillin' in my boat, just loungin'. This is right before I tried to move and the thing tipped over - gotta be careful, Dad says its just like a Canoe.
Off to a busy week and more pictures will come next week. Wednesday night, I'm heading for StJ to spend 3-4 days with my Gma Lisa, Gpa Becker, Zoester & Ellie. If the weather's nice, I sure hope they take me to the park!! Hoorray! Mom & Dad will have a little peace & quiet and may even head out to dinner, drinks followed by a movie on Thursday or Friday night.
This is me - 19 months old
Can you see me in the picture? Dad rigged up a rod for me and I fished from the shore. I only fell in once and Gma and Mom were laughing at me. Didn't catch much but I will someday.
Cabin = Ice Cream treats outside! 
Dad took me out floating in the water - it was super warm!
I know we've been out of town a lot lately so thank you to everyone who is putting up with us being MIA lately. Once the snow comes, we PROMISE to be around. Ha!
I CANNOT believe my long vacation is already over. Puh. It was soo much fun we have been procrastinating leaving the cabin! The weather on Gull Lake for the July 4th holiday was a PERFECT sunny & 80-85 all week. I even got a great tan! I had a chance to go tubing, fishing, throw rocks, dancing, playing, swimming, napping and much more. Here are a few pics that were on Mother's camera but she said she is no longer great at taking pictures because she's too busy running after me!!
Craugen's had an outdoor pool. I loved it and am FEARLESS when it comes to water which scares my parents. They may look into some swimming lessons for me soon. I would jump in the water, dunk my head and then when Mom would pull me back above water I'd say "whoa!"
My first tubing experience and I loved it, wasn't scared a bit. I told Dad to drive super fast.
One of the several pontoon rides with Gma and her best friend Shanna.
The new word I learned? "Wee-weed" - that's what I call seaweed. My Mom's sister taught me that because I loved playing in it on the shoreline. I was nicknamed Seaweed Man the rest of vacation!
While I was playing with my wee-weed, after Dad would tell me "good throw" after I cleaned it all up, I'd run over and give him a fat kiss. I think in High School I already know what my summer job will be - I'll be a clean-up shore boy at Craugen's.
Many more pictures to come! I hope everyone had a great, safe Holiday weekend! Now, Cousins Rachel & Michael have arrived; can't wait to rough house with them!!!! Back to "work" this week, I'm starting to call my daycare "work"
Sounds like they had a BLAST and the gift was a huge success. Thanks to all of Mom's friends who blocked out their day for the fun and stay-over at the hotel but I will NOT thank you for the killer headache she had the next day. She said the wine just tasted tooo good! :)
This weekend, we celebrated a very special thing: my Dadda. He had to guide in a fishing tournament, a fundraiser for Camp Confidence so Ma & I followed him up to Brainerd for the weekend since he's been out of town a lot lately. I love the cabin so much that I slept 11 hours each night and DIDNT take naps because it's so much fun there.
Grandpa takes his shovel and shovels up big huge of piles of rocks for me on the lakeshore. I throw them all the way back in the lake. Nope, it doesn't get old. We went on a few boat rides - one in Gpas Cobalt (I drove fast) and then in Daddy's new boat, a new Lund fishing boat with a huge 150 motor.
Me and Dad sitting in the cabin porch on Father's Day 2010. I love that dude. Thanks Dad for being such a good Dadda and a great husb to my Mama.
Thanks Dad for teaching me how to fish. I think I said the word "boat" about 800 times this weekend. I can tell we're going to be very good buddies when I grow up...even more than we are now. I love the cabin so much (except for Gpas loud tractor) - do you think we can move there? Peeeez?
Date: Sat, August 14th @ 830am CST
While we were in KC, we had a few hours to stop and see my Great Gma Becker who is kickin' it strong! We also were greeted by Susie, Peter, Michael & Emily too. Gma - I loved every minute of the visit and was sad that I couldn't stay longer.
