Here's a photo tour of our recent summer fun. As usual, remember to click on the photos to see the big version. You might not be able to see the captions if you do that, but you can at least see the pics better. Thanks for reading and God bless. How great is life? These kids are so awesome.
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| Summer in MN = DQ near our house |
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| A recent picnic just with Dad and kids. |
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| Daddy Roman and Ezra at French Lake Park on Medicine Lake in Plymouth. |
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| Levi has been taking a wednesday afternoon golf league all summer. Great results so far. |
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| Michele attended the Brislin family's second reunion :) |
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| A fun photo of Daddy and Roman at a little amusement park near Park Rapids. |
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| The big guy. |
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| Ezra |
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| They have fun together. Daily. Twins and best friends. |
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| Babe. |
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| Speaking of goofballs. |
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Meet Mr. Rock. We took him back to our home in Minnetonka, along
with some of the plants from the lake. They're now in our front yard. |
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| The lodge. |
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| Lunch at the lodge. |
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| Ezra playing the grabber game. |
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| He won. |
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| Rolf's giant new farmstead. We played baseball, football and frisbee. |
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Ivy and Roman played TBall on Monday nights in Hopkins.
Their league T-Shirts say it all - "Best Summer Ever" |
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Here's a cool photo of Levi in the on-deck circle and his best friend James at bat.
The boys had been competing in different levels during the first half
of the summer, so it was refreshing to have them on the same team again. |
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Daddy took the kids to get frozen yogurt one night.
We all safely road our bikes through a busy intersection. |
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| A protest erupted one night in our neighborhood this summer when the governor was speaking at a synagogue very close to our house. This is the much larger pro-Israel group. Here's the StarTribune story of the event. |
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| Levi mowing the lawn for the first time. He's almost 9 years old. Crazy. |
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Ezra holding his t-ball trophy from Big Willow.
Ivy is on third base behind him wearing a vintage 70s 1-piece summer outfit. |
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A selfie at Excelsior Bay on Lake Minnetonka. I'm at the turnaround point,
halfway through a 21-mile run. I'm training for the Twin Cities Marathon in October. |
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| Last day of T-Ball for Ivy and Roman. |
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| During our trip to Grand Forks - the girls did their nails. |
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Grandma Black takes Ivy and Roman to the Dollar Spot.
I'm still not sure who was more excited about that, the kids or Grandma! |
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| GFRR Class of 1994 reunion. Love the background at the Grand Forks Country Club. |
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Ivy, Roman, Ezra and a new friend they made with a boy named Johnny
who was visiting his cousin of James (our neighbor). |
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| Levi has pitched twice so far in baseball. He's a natural. |
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This is our current view from our driveway of the school. Dust and construction.
We used to just see a surface lot and trees, but alas, had to give it up for the benefit of a new/renovated school. |
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| Christina and the kids grew a giant zucchini. |
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| We made about 5 loaves of zucchini bread, and still have some of the vegetable left. |
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| Ezra just finished a week long summer theater class at the Stages Community Theater in Hopkins. Here's a clip of his first performance. He's a natural. |
