MN Landscape Arboretum

here's a place where happy lives

it has been on our summer bucket list for a few years now and it never dissapoints

a whole flock of geese welcomed us on our trip to the MN Landscape Arboretum this year

we could have left after the first 15 minutes of just chasing these dumb birds around.

our kids were in heaven.

but we ventured into the peaceful gardens and i started dreaming about what an amazingly fun job this would be

the girls were hoping to find the zillions of tadpoles that we happened upon last year, but we were too late in the season

so, they settled for rock hopping, which was a fun consolation prize

the exploring never ends here

after a few hours of climbing and exploring we headed to their favorite part, the play house

j and i struck up a conversation with some other parents there and i didn't get one picture :(

but as the sun set we hopped in the car for the 3 mile tree tour, which is always the cherry on top for me

with that, i'll mark the end of my summer posts

it was such a sweet time with our girls.

i know i've said it before, but life with these little chickadees just keeps getting better.

on a tad more sour note:  the alarm is set.

5:00 am

and it's not that i'm sad about going back to work

we need the routine and i've got a weird excitement about this year.

anywhoo...the only tiny problem is that we failed to prepare our kids for the 6:30 am wake up call they will be getting in just a few short hours.

more responsible people would have eased them into this the past couple of weeks.

every summer we have good intentions....we really do.

but then we just can't let go of these summer nights and ooops - the kids slept in until 8:35 today!

and just like every other summer, we're going to have to rip the band aid off tomorrow.

ugh...prayers would be appreciated.

with that, i'm off to get some last minute work done...because we all know that seating charts don't make themselves.  :)