Dear Mr. Obama

really lame, i know...

i have officially come to grips with the fact that i am a lame blogger.  time just seems to somehow escape me and there's always something else i should be doing.  but people are starting to get pissed.  it has been an extremely busy summer (which i can't believe is over) and so i will try some feeble attempt to summarize it here in pictures.  and for whatever reason...blogspot mixes all my pictures up and gets them out of order.  and when i try to move them around, my computer has a meltdown and shuts down.  so you'll just have to bear with me here...

We set up the pool kind of late in the season, but have still gotten some good use out of it.

josie has really come out of her shell this summer.  her personality is very sweet, but also mischievous.

over labor day weekend we went to visit my sister who lives near madison, wi.  here are all the cousins at blue mounds state park.  it was a beautiful day.

our subsequent hike (death march).  it got a little longer than we all expected, especially with five children.  ahh, nature!

mattie mae. becoming her own.

the boys spent a lot of time playing with their tractors in the sandpile.

slip slidin' away.

tuckered out.

my sister and i went to algoma, wi to do some family history.  we spent a lot of time here...

an algoma sunset.  notice the wind turbines on the left, there were a ton of them up there.

lots of marshmallows and dutch oven dinners around the fire.

well that's all i can muster for tonight.