The Walker Family

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

August Highlights

Here is a taste of the Walker Family happenings this past month...

Como zoo...great place to go for half a day...close by, not so big, has rides too!

Our annual neighborhood party...we love our street...we have amazing neighbors! Adeline is having a bit of fun! Riley came along so that was an added bonus for Adeline.

Patrick and Clara with our neighbor Cole and his daughter Paige (the two girls are about 3 months apart in age).

sleepover!

We survived a terrible summer storm...all this happened very quickly and with amazing force...and Patrick was out of town!! This was what was left on our deck...

The furniture and the grill flew across the deck and landed on the lawn. Fortunately nothing too terrible happened. Our screens had to be replaced, a little siding and roof damage, a new grill was needed, lost 3 smaller trees...thankful for God's provision, knowing it could've been so much worse!

the kids checking out the damage from the storm the next morning

Patrick putting the kids to work, cleaning the deck...they love this!

Addie started soccer!

coaches Dave & Chris (such great coaches!)

Grandpa and Grandpa from Iowa came up for a visit. We spent an afternoon down in Stillwater. It is a quaint little town on the river. It has great eateries, and we found a great park!

grandpa & his little Clara

grandma with the kids

We enjoyed a weekend with Auntie Leah at the Otterlei cabin! It's a beautiful place, and Leah was the hostess with the mostess, as always!

Charlie's first time on a tube

"Mommy, check out my curls..."

9 months old - Clara splashing around at Cascade Bay

Mia & Hye Young were here for Labor Day weekend. We did a lot of playing!

We went to the Children's Museum.

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

July Highlights

This month Miss Clara started to crawl (just before 8 months old). She "army" crawled for quite some time but eventually mastered the more "typical" crawl. She gets herself around and keeps up pretty well with her brother and sister. Clara continues to be mellow and easy going...we think the most mellow out of the three kids. Patrick flew over the fourth of July holiday, but the kids and I made it to the local parade down the street from us. We played outside daily - went to parks nearby, had lots of picnics, swam at the local pool as well as splashed around in the inflatable pool on our deck. We enjoyed a weekend at Grandpa lowell's cabin in northern MN. Ever since Patrick and I have been married, we say we will get to the cabin "a lot more this summer." We have had terrible follow through on that. But we do get up there once or twice each summer and when we do, we love it! We are blessed to have such a beautiful place to enjoy and relax. Toward the end of the month, the girls and I (once again leaving Charlie behind....poor little guy!) enjoyed a few days with my dear friend Deb in Chicago.

I used to kind of mock moms who dressed their kids alike...but look at me, I'm doing the same thing! So if the girls have matching pjs, I just chalk it up to cuteness and sisters bonding...???

Clara met our long time good friend Todd (amazing singer at our wedding) for the first time. He now lives out of state so it was good to catch up with him!