Our Weekend With Family Visitors!

This past weekend, we had the privilege of hosting Dan’s brother, his wife, and their 4 kids at our home! We saw them for a little while when we were on my family’s vacation in Michigan 2 weeks ago, but of course with anytime with family, it is always “too short.” That is why we were excited to have them out here 4 days later!

As with any family that visits, we of course can’t WAIT! We had our basement set up so that all the boys could sleep downstairs with Uncle Dan, but unfortunately our basement flooded, so we had to rip up the carpet and dry it out. We were wondering how we were all going to fit, but we just switched bedrooms and it worked great! Thankfully his brother’s family is flexible and generous to make it work in small spaces!

It was supposed to rain the whole weekend, but it only briefly rained a few times! What an answer to prayer! One of the things they were all looking forward to was fishing out in Minnesota. Of course we brag about how good the fishing is out here (because it is!), so we would’ve been devastated as well, if they weren’t able to go fishing. But God held off the rain each time and it ended up working out just fine!

On Saturday, we headed down to the Alexander Ramsey Falls. There isn’t a TON to do around by us only because everything is a bit of a drive – we live in the COUNTRY to say the least! Although, the falls are only about a 45 minute drive and it is worth EVERY minute!

The fun bridge that leads to the falls

Because of all of the water and flooding, the falls were just ROARING. We were shocked to see the water so high, yet at the same time, it was a beautiful sight.

The Boys! It was just too cute – they just couldn’t WAIT to go fishing with Uncle Dan. Granted I can understand why because he is very fun to fish with, but it was so cute to see kids so excited to be with “Uncle Dan!”

The Girls! It was so good to spend QUALITY time with them!

While it was raining, we had some pretty serious Mario Kart races!

And some fishing pictures!
Ninja warrior right here!

Dan caught a big one and let her reel it in!

The face says it all 🙂

We have been so blessed with such quality family time lately and are thankful that even though we live 10-11 hours from them, that we can still keep in touch. We live in an area where family are extremely close and not having family nearby, we treasure every moment we have with them. We are blessed to be enveloped though by families here and having people “adopt” us into theirs!

Such a WONDERFUL weekend together, doing life together, and sharing life together!

I think I am finally caught up on pictures over the past month…now you can see why I have been slacking in posting lately 🙂

We look forward to the 4th of July festivities here in Prinsburg tomorrow! There is always so much going on! July also brings it’s own busyness, but goodness too. We are helping out with the SERVE that is happening at a local CRC church near us everyday in 2 weeks, and then the next week we leave for our youth group’s mission trip to Wisconsin! We are going to an Indian reservation and helping a missionary that we support through one of the churches. This summer has us moving around quite a bit, but we have loved every minute of it!