Lake Martin 2011

We had a great trip to Lake Martin and then to MS. The drive there was long but we made it. We spent one week at Lake Martin with my family and then to MS to see the rest of our family. It was a great time and we were sad to leave. I love South Dakota but I hate being so far from family. Especially that precious niece, Isabella. I had over 100 pictures so here are just a few. I will add some more in the next  post.

Our weekend

Yes, the girls are in fleece and sweatshirts and it is Memorial Day weekend.  I had high hopes of warm 70's and grilling out but no such luck. On Saturday the high was around 65.
 I cut my finger chopping vegetables. It took about 2 hours to get the bleeding to stop. It was crazy. Hannah was enjoying sitting beside me, as I laid on the floor, playing doctor.  Chris was putting tons of pressure on my pointer finger while putting pressure on my wrist with his other hand. Fortunately, Lucy was totally content to sit and watch.  After we got that settled and girls down for a nap our neighbors hit the gas line between our houses. We had to get the girls up from their nap and go outside for about 45 minutes. Needless to say, no naps.
Sunday it was 45 and raining! Yuck. The sun came out today for a little bit but mainly rainy.
 We enjoyed having Chris home for 4 days but back to the real world tomorrow.
 My half-marathon is on Sunday and then we will drive to the lake house in Alabama. We will be home for 2 weeks. We are really looking forward to the trip and I'm excited about my race.

Swing Set

Our friends gave us a play set out of their backyard several weeks ago. Jessie had to take it apart so that he could plant a tree in his backyard. So, for the past few weeks Chris has been studying the instructions on how to put this play set back together. It ended up that a lot of the wood was rotten so we will have to replace 90% of the wood. Chris started building the swingset and got it put up this morning. He built this totally from scratch. We will add on a slide and playhouse like you can see at our neighbor's soon. Not sure if that project will come together this weekend or not. I will take some more pictures tonight when the girls are out playing. It started to rain so we came inside. Yes, sunny and rainy.