Spaghetti!

Everyone likes pictures of a baby eating spaghetti right? Yes, I stripped her down before lunch:

And we're done:

Apple Jack Orchard

We are lucky enough to live just a few miles from a nice apple orchard called Apple Jack.  We met our friends Renae and Ashely there for lunch last weekend and a took a quick stroll throught the apple orchard. We like to get out there at least once a year and we still need to get out to our old favorite, Pine Tree Apple Orchard.

Maggie liked looking at the turkey...

Corn

We're sad summer is coming to a close around here because that means sweet corn is almost done.  We've been freezing a lot of it so we have a taste of summer this winter, but it's just not the same as corn on the cob!  Maggie agrees:

Maggie likes her corn un-cooked.

 

 

 

Minnehaha Falls

We got home from vacation on Thursday, so we decided to take advantage of a beautiful Friday and brought our bikes into Minnepolis.  Minneapolis has great bike paths and we biked along Minnehaha Creek for 6 miles until we reached Minnehaha falls:

There is a great little seafood restaurant, Sea Salt Eatery, at the falls we had lunch at:

After lunch we biked back to our car and Maggie took a short cat nap on the way! I'm hoping to do this again in the falls when the leaves change:)

Vacation

We packed up and headed back East this past week to East Aurora, New York.  Maggie, my mom and I flew and the rest of the crew drove.  Maggie and I left home at 3:30 in the morning only to arrive at the airport and have our flight delayed.  Luckily we were able to re-book on a non-stop to Buffalo that afternoon.  We were also upgraded to first class.  Maggie was every passenger's worst nightmare.  She was loud and crying so we kept feeding her and giving her juice. She had a blow-out on Grandma right as we were landing so the plane was nice and stinky. 

Maggie and Nonnie:

We blew bubbles:

We went to the park:

(A stranger decided to give Craig a push)

We ate a ton of wings at the Bar Bill.

We walked down Main Street.

Maggie redistributed ice cubes:

We went to the Erie County Fair.  Maggie was not impressed with the horses:

She was impressed with the ice cream cones:

The pigs were ok too:

We ate some more:

And we caught up on some sleep:

(With a paci in each hand)

August is almost over?

This is super late, but here is Maggie's August picture taken today-

And since I never posted her July picture, here it is -

July - What We've Been Up To

Some boating:

Staying cool - this summer has been hot!

Color Running:

A 5k that douses you in colored corn starch every kilometer - this race was so hot and on the MN State Fair grounds (really boring scenery)

Bounce house:

Our most recent excitement:

Last week I got a call at work from Craig telling me to get home quick to take him to the hospital. Luckily we had a neighbor home who drove him in and I meet him there. After several tests it was determined that he had appendicitis (it was about 8:30 pm by that time)! The surgeon was called in and he had do another appendectomy on a teenage girl first so Craig didn't go into surgery until 10:30 pm.  He got up to his room for the night at about 12:30 am.  He got to home the next afternoon but has been pretty sore since then. His appendix did perforate a little bit so we are on infection watch, but we are happy he seems to be recovering ok. I ended up cancelling a work trip because he can't lift Maggie for two weeks! Obviously I took pictures...

Here is Craig in the ER after he downed his bottle of contrast for the CT:

The day after surgery:

All better:)

I work for Covidien, which is a really large company, but it's newer and not many people have heard of it so imagine Craig's suprise when they started covering him in Covidien products in the pre-op area:

The finger pulse ox sensor and monitor-

and the leg compression system (prevents pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis):

I actually don't work on either of these products but it's still fun to see:)