More Breezy Point 2010

Enjoying the sprinkler at Pelican Center Seth splashing

My boys

Elijah swimming-he's getting so much braver!

Daddy & Elijah building a sand castle. Daddy did most of the building, while Elijah made lots of trips to the lake to bring water to him.

Seth making his sand castle. Every time he'd try to dump his water in the sand he'd end up dumping it all over himself.

The finished product!

A very messy Seth Robert...
Elijah at Dockside waiting for his supper.

Playing basketball at Pelican Center

More Vacation

Elijah requested to take this picture
Playing at the park on the beach
Our third annual picture by the lake-later I'll try to post all three in one spot.
These guys love the beach-we may have to find one closer to home!

Breezy Point 2010

Seth trying to help blow up his floaty toy
Checking out the view of the lake from our balcony.


Lookin' cool in shades while getting ready to walk down to the lake.
The boys love stop signs-if you go back to May '09 there's a picture of Elijah in front of this same stop sign
The beach!! This is the 3rd year we've gone to Breezy Point for our vacation, and the first year we've actually gotten to enjoy the beach. Hooray for nice weather!!

Elijah Mowing

Mother's Day 2010

My wonderful boys took me out to Paradiso for lunch, then we headed to the hospital to visit Great Grandpa Chapman and Great Great Grandpa Dougherty, and ended the trip to GF with a visit to Target-Mommy's favorite!

A Visit to Great Great Grandpa & Grandma's

We went to Great Great Grandpa and Grandma Dougherty's apartment to celebrate Grandpa's Birthday. We were the first ones there, and Elijah and Seth quickly warmed up to Grandma-Elijah was talking her ear off within the first three minutes, and a couple minutes later Seth joined in. I saw Grandpa Jeff and Grandma Nina drive by, and Grandma Dougherty asked the boys if they wanted to walk with her to meet them at the door, and surprisingly they both went with her! (For those that don't know my boys, they are huge momma's boys-especially Seth. Seth doesn't venture far from Mommy very often.) Here are some pics from the day:
Elijah with Uncle Ben. Seth sat with him too, but everytime Seth saw the camera he'd slide off Ben's lap as fast as he could. The boys love their Uncle Ben!

Seth and Libbie. She's trying to keep him on the couch-he was trying to run away from the camera.

Seth and Great Great Grandma. They colored together for quite a while! He didn't shy away from the camera this time-yay! I love this picture!

Spring Break At Nickelodean Universe

On Wednesday after lunch we left for Bloomington for a Spring Break mini vacation. This was the sight less than 10 minutes in to the drive...


On Thursday we swam for a bit at the hotel, and then went to the Mall of America to play at Nickelodean Universe. We went on the rides from 10:30am to 9:30pm-what a long day! Believe it or not, Chris and I were ready to go before the boys were! They loved the rides-the only breaks they took were for lunch and supper, and Seth and Chris headed back to the hotel for a short nap. Other than that we were on the rides! It was great-there weren't many people there so we got on most of the rides right away.
Elijah on the bumper cars. It was pretty funny to watch-he didn't quite understand the steering part of it, but then again neither did most of the kids on the ride with him. They all would go forward until they ran into someone, or they would just go in circles. This was his first ride-and the only time he went on it. Seth couldn't go on it because he was too short...

Elijah on the Fly Boat ride (there's a video of him on this ride back in July/Aug '09) He was the only one on it-Seth was too small for this one too.

Elijah on the truck ride

Seth on the trucks. This was Seth's favorite ride-he asked to go on it again, and again, and AGAIN!
Waiting for the carousel

Seth on the carousel-he is so small that he kept sliding off the seat.

Elijah enjoying his ride.

Ready for the balloon race ride to start

The train...they loved this one too. I didn't-it was a pretty tight fit to sit on this one!

Blue Skidoo-Elijah was tall enough to go on this one by himself!

Seth and Mommy on the Blue Skidoo

Elijah and Mommy on the car ride-both boys loved this one too! I had a lot of bruises on my back from this one... Elijah's favorite ride was the Diego Bus that went up and around-but no pictures of that one :(