We bought a new grill! Dan was quite excited about the purchase and of course we grilled some yummy steaks the first night we had it home!
NHRA Nationals at Brainerd International RacewayThis year the whole family went to the races. We slept in the tent, drove the fourwheelers all over the place and enjoyed 4 straight days of skin tingling, ear numbing full throttle racing.
Tehya's favorite driver is still Ashley Force.
Ada liked yelling "Ready, Set, Go!" each time a set of cars sat at the starting line.
Mom and Dad again reminisced about how this is where they met, and how even after all these years it is just as fun as the first time!
Each summer the Feulner family invites the Milbrandt clan up for a weekend at the cabin with them. Everyone had a wonderful time as always! Grandma Diane got plenty of rides in the paddle boat,
and Uncle Dave and Lauren were the first to successfully dump over the jet ski! (Yes this did start a trend!)
Ada and Grandma Diane playing in the sand
The big boys warming up out of the water
Ada on a jet ski for the first time!
Mom and Tehya took a few turns making waves too!
Dan without a doubt had the most fun on the jet skis! This did nothing to stop the talk of purchasing a set for our family!
Boys and their toys....
Ada had a lot of fun playing in the lake
She even liked seeing how far she could walk out in the water!
Ada thought it was really fun to play in the blow up raft
Tehya showing of her ballerina tubing skills! Look at that toe point!
Mom even decided to prove Dad wrong by attempting to get up on water skis! After ten years of not being behind a boat, and several humorous attempts...
Success! (even if it was brief!)
This is one of Mom's favorite pictures of the weekend. Ada was completely content sitting in the sand playing with toys for hours while everyone was taking turns on the jet skis and behind the boat. She filled buckets, made mud pies and even decorated a castle with shells her cousins found for her. I think Ada may have inherited a bit of Mom's beach bum trait!
Dan mulched around a couple of our front yard trees and our new big rock from the farm today. Now I am having huge urges to go buy more plants and flowers to fill in with. Maybe this planting project will wait until next spring.
Sorry for the tree shadow! This is a picture of the newly updated front rock wall. Dan added some larger stones to the wall we had started last year and I think it looks great. We will be filling in this area with a bunch of dirt and more mulch. The plan is to have a sitting area with a small table and a couple of chairs in this area along with the large cedar trellis I found and of course a bunch more plants and flowers!
The sidewalk garden is overflowing with blooms this year. I love the smell of them all as you walk towards our front door!
A new shot of the upfront garden. The plants in this garden are doing really well this year too. I only lost one from winter to spring! I mulched it in a couple of weekends ago and I am loving the way it looks.
One of the front sides of our house. Dan and I are very excited that once we finish the area around the corner that this section of the yard will be complete! 
Grandma Diane came over for a visit after work one night to play with the girls. She got roped into wagon pullin' duty right away!
Poor grandma really got a work out this night - the girls rode around the backyard for a really long time!
After wagon time a game of hide and seek broke out. Ada tried really hard to play, but she just didn't understand that she wasn't supposed to tell where people were hiding!
Tehya made my heart sing when she said she wanted a picture of just her and her mommy together! What a great feeling.
Dan told the girls to twirl their skirts. Ada promptly fell on her butt and giggled.
Tehya is a master skirt whirler and twirler. She showed us how to do it the right way!
Ada making a goofy face....which I love and which she does a lot!
More twirls!
I love this picture of Dan and the girls - they look like they just did something very silly together!
Tehya was very excited to model the second John Deere dress Aunt Shari made for her.
Ada thought it was pretty fun too!
This is one of my new favorite pictures of Ada. I think she looks so sweet and innocent here!
Tehya showing that she is taller than our lilacs. I told her to wait just a couple of years and she wont be able to say that anymore! Thank goodness they will grow faster than she will, I'm already nostalgic looking at what a little lady she is now! 
Dan played paintball today and decided to let the girls try out his new gun when he got home.
Tehya thought it was really cool that she could shoot paint at our garden trailer!
Ada got a kick out of shooting the gun too. She giggled everytime a paint ball splatted!
I think Daddy had fun sharing his new toy too....He always gets a silly grin when he gets to show his girls something new!
