Friday night was all kinds of fun for us, well, except for Kris since he was at work. But James, Annika and myself had loads of fun! We were visiting Mary and her brand new baby (only 4 weeks old!) Logan. What a little cutie he is. And so tiny! OK, so he's 9 pounds now but he still has these itty bitty little legs - not a fat roll on him. I'm sure he'll get some in no time what with all the nursing he likes to do. And he was a good little baby too. Sure, he was "fussy" according to Mary but really, he wasn't fussy much at all. Most babies get like that in the evening. He and Mary just need to figure out their routine and all will be well. Mary seemed a little stressed out and I hope my chat with her in the kitchen helped her out some. It's stressful having a newborn and being a first time mom. I'm confident though that she'll find her groove soon. Mary's staying with her parents so they were home too and then her brother and his two kids (age 2 1/2 and 5) were over too. Annika had a great time playing with all the toys and the boys and James was busy playing with the toys too. Amanda and Dean were over too to partake in the Logan-y goodness. It was great to see them too. I haven't seen them in way too long. And Amanda was sweet enough to buy Annika a birthday present. It was a giant coloring book with watercolor paints and crayons included. The girl has been coloring and painting in it since!

Saturday was a day of work, work, work at our house. After sleeping in late (me and Annika - oh heaven!) we headed out to a local nursery where we purchased 4 large trees. After shuttling them home (us driving home, Kris removing the car seats from the truck and making 2 trips back to the nursery to bring home 2 trees at a time), we spent the rest of the afternoon digging holes, huge, giant holes, and planting our lovely trees. We now have a Greenspire Linden, a Emerald Queen Maple, an Autumn Blaze Maple, and a May Day Red Leaf Tree of which I can not find a good link. After getting all that work done we headed inside so each of us could get cleaned up. Man, did we ever get dirty, all of us! No sooner had we finished that then Krystle and Pierce arrived! We all went out to dinner that night together. Then they came back to our house and we watched some Gopher football together. It was so great to hang out with them. The kids loved it too.

James is so close to getting more teeth. His two top front teeth are just below the surface of his gums. Any day now and that gummy grin will be gone for good.

I need to post more often. If only to remember the funny things Annika said and they both did. They crack me up all the time. Oh, and I'll try and fix the pictures link this week.