Bayfield

We sprang Bowie from Kindergarten for a couple of days to venture North for a fall vacation to Bayfield. Our friend Kelsey recently purchased a property there that she has made available on Airbnb. You can check it out (and I highly recommend you do if you're headed there) at: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/19966336. We ate at so many yummy restaurants including our most favorite, Fat Radish. Bowie liked Morty's Bar because he got to play video games. We were able to take the Ferry to Madeline Island for a hike and went swimming at the local rec. center, which has a fantastic saline pool. We spend a lot of time just relaxing and napping and watching movies and snuggling and everything good you could hope to do with your family. On a related note I won 'Mom of the Year' by forgetting to pack any underwear for Bowie. He wore one pair for 4 days solid and didn't have any accidents so that was pretty cool.

 

Summer 2019

I didn't take nearly enough photos to capture all of our adventures. Here are a few that should spark some memories.

Bowie and River at his 5th birthday party at Lake Nokomis Park.

Friends who mask together

Apparently Emmy and I kayak on the same day every year. We brought Carly this year.

Hot Wheels 5th birthday cake!

First catch of the summer!

A highlight of my summer was the custard from Sprinkles Hmong Village

Bowie with his buddy Simon

Duluth, UP and back through WI.

We were so blessed to spend a lot of time out of town this summer. We got more than our fair share of time on beautiful lakes throughout the Midwest and spending time with some or our favorite people. Bowie started kindergarten mid-week so I had taken time off anyway and then Josh realized he could take the time off too. We decided to take one last family vacation before Bowie started kindergarten and it all came together to meet up with Josh's cousins and their families in Michigan. We went up through Duluth and home through Wisconsin and made some fantastic memories.

First time at Tobies.

We are HUGE fans of Duluth Grill and their HUGE pancakes.

We stopped at the Porcupine Mountains on our way through MI and did a gorgeous waterfall walk.

Lots of 4 wheeling with Nicole and Elias at the wheel.

Night fishing.

We brought the whole gang to the brewery in Houghton. Not an easy feat but we are pros.

The women escape to the Mosquito Inn.

We made sure to spend some time at Franconia on our way home through Wisconsin. Always a favorite.

Our Family 2019

We went for it and invested in family photos and I'm obsessed with them. We worked with Maria Lloyd and I wasn't sure what to expect because I was only going off the recommendation of a friend on her. My experience with family photos is that you only end up with 1-2 that everybody can agree they like so I was wildly surprised by how many stellar photos we ended up with. Maria was awesome! The morning of our photo shoot I was so crabby because I didn't plan my outfit in advance and I didn't love any of my clothes and I was scrambling to pick something out for the three of us. Then it started to get really windy and stormy. Finally, I had purposely planned to have our pictures taken at Mill City so that we could visit the farmer's market afterwards and make a morning of it but silly me the market is open Sundays but it was storming anyways and I felt so defeated. I called Maria to see if we should just reschedule and she explained that the weather would actually make for better photos and she totally calmed me down. Throughout the shoot she remained calm and got creative with shots. You can't even tell it was a messy day and we all ended up looking great and like we planned our outfits to sort of match. Anyways here are a BUNCH of our favorites. Seriously they are so many. I'm super glad we did this.