GRND MARAIS

This past weekend we went up to Grand Marais. It was Kyle, Pam, David and me. We rented a cabin up there. It was so pretty. We couldn't have asked for better weather up there. I was expecting it to be cold and windy. It really wasn't that bad.

We found this ice cream shop that was opened for it's last day for the summer. Everything was half off! SCORE!! We loaded up on ice cream there.

We went to Cascade State Park.. We went to the waterfalls and then walked up to Look out Mountain. That was a never ending hike! A lot of up hill climbing.

The nights were kind of cool but we had an indoor fireplace to roast our marshmallow in.

We are looking forward to going up there again. It was well worth it. So much to see and do. Never a dull moment!!

FISHIES

I'm sooo sorry for not updating this sooner. Things have just been hectic around here. So here is a little bleep about what has been going on in our lives lately.
David has enrolled at Rasmussen College. He will be starting on Oct 1st. He is going into Computer Networking. He can do most of this online. There are only 2 classes that he will have to drive to campus to take. He is sooo happy to be finally going to school.

I, on the other hand, ran into some problems with ARCC. Lets just say that I will not be going there any longer. I just feel like they didn't have a good realtion with the students. They just seemed to not want to help the students put when they needed it. They were giving me the run around with things. However, I was able to apply at Rasmussen (like David) and get signed up with them. I will be able to start on Oct 1st as well. The funny thing is that David and I will be going into the same type of program. So I can take all of my classes online but 2. And those 2 classes will be with David so we can ride together. The other advantage is that we can help each other out with homework. I'm just hoping my credits transfer from ARCC.

Enough about school. We just recently bought a fish tank. So we went and got all kinds of fancy things for it. Well we bought some fish to put in there. We have mollies and platties (small tropical fish). I think that out of the 6 original fish that we bought, we only have 1 still living. The others are all replacements of the 5 that died!! LOL...we're beginners!! You think that is bad, wait til you hear this.

We were all proud of setting up our tank. We were sitthing there watching the fish swim in their new environment. When all of the sudden we saw this little orange thing zip across the front of the tank. We thought we were halucinating!! Then it happened again. Turns out one of our orange platties had babies. Well there were five of them. So I was telling mom and dad about it and they had a smaller tank to put the babies in so that they wouldn't get eaten by the other fish. (Why do fish eat other fish?? I don't understand that!!)

So here we are with 2 tanks going. We went and bought some other fish to replace the ones that died. We got a black molly and a silver molly. They were doing just fine in our big tank. I went to feed them one morning and to my suprise I found litle black babies and little white babies!! (You want to know the funniest thing about this is?? We have all female fish!!!! Tell me how that works! =)

So we started fishing out the babies to put into the little tank with the little orange babies. I was counting to see how many we had. We hit the number 30 and I just stopped counting. Way too many fishies!!! So about 12 or so took a little ride down the toilet. At least if any more of them die we have replacements.

If anyone wants any fish.....let us know.....we have lots. In fact I wouldn't be suprised if we had more in the future!! CRAZY FISH!!!

BUSY FUN FILLED WEEKEND

This weekend was busy and VERY fun! Friday after I got off work, we headed down to the county fair. We walked around and enjoyed the fair food and animals. But we are glad that it is over because it is only a block away from our house and it gets crazy around here then.

Saturday we got up early and headed to Grantsburg, Wisconsin for the water skips. For those of you who do not know what this is, it is snowmobile racing done on water. Very fun!! It was a beautiful day for it. Not too hot or humid. But I did get a little too much sun....yes I got sunburned. My shoulders look like lobsters!! LOL!! Oh well at least we had fun.

These are just a few of the pictures that we have. If the snowmobile sinks in the water and they cut the engine before it actually goes under, the snowmobile can be up and running in a new race within 10 minutes. Amazing!! Looks like a lot of fun out there. They definitely stayed cool out there. We plan to go to this again next kyear. Maybe even catch another one later on this year. The pros were even there. It was just amazing what they were doing out there.

As if that wasn't enough excitment for the weekend. After we got back into town, Kyle and Pam came over and we went to the Mora parade. That was pretty fun. Not as fun as when we were kids though.

Another adventure added to the summer!!

Life's Little Miracles

David's older sister, Sherri, just had her baby on June 30th. So this weekend we drove to Benson, MN to see the new addition to the family!!This is Angel Marie Helmbrecht. She is sooo adorable.

David was feeding her a bottle and told me that I was going to burp her because he didn't want her to spit up on him. So he fed her and fed her and fed her. Well you can imagine what happened when I got her. Yep, she spit up all over me. I hadn't had her more than 2 minutes. But babies will be babies. I'm sure that since there is a little one now that we will be visiting family out there much more often.

AWWH!!!!

We also got a chance to go and see David's mom. She just bought a new house there in Benson.

David certainly looks like his mom. She was showing us some pictures of when he was a baby. Such a cute little boy he was!!

Well there is another adventure that we did this summer. Add that to the list!!