New project

I have decided to make my own bread. To start I am making my own yeast. It is really simple. You combine flour and water and leave it out to grow. Obviously it is working well, because this is what I woke up to this morning.

It had grown so much it pushed the cover off and was coming out of the container.

Gotta love that smile!

New play mat

Charlie got a new play mat at a garage sale. It has been the best $3 we spent in a long time. It is a little worn in some spots, but he loves driving all of his cars on it. He has been so busy with it this week during all of the rain.

Who needs building blocks?

Who needs building blocks when you have spices to stack? Not Charlie. He kept stacking them up and then knocking them over. I am not sure why we even buy toys when he spends most of the time playing with our household items.

Also, we are very happy to have Daddy home! Charlie and Aaron have been following him everywhere. It is nice to have him back making noise and messing up my house.

Ottertail Lake

Charlie and I headed to the lakes on Thursday to distract us from Corey being gone. On the way to the lake, I noticed Charlie had a runny nose and was sneezing. He had a cold the whole time we were at the lake. Besides that we had a great time at the lake.

Thursday night we went to visit Grandpa Wayne and Nancy. That is what Charlie calls Wayne Ulven. My mom kept telling Charlie that Wayne was a grandpa so Charlie would not be scared of him. On Friday, my uncle Kevin and aunt Kathy came down to the lake. We went on the pontoon and had supper at Zorbaz. My aunt Pam, uncle Tim, and cousin Quinn came late on Friday night and stayed until Saturday morning. It was nice to see them. Charlie, Grandpa Dan, and I went mini-golfing on Saturday. Charlie even scored a hole-in-one on number 12. We did lots of pontooning and relaxing.

Mini-golfing in Battle Lake

Putting it in the hole

Getting tips from Grandpa Dan

Riding on the pontoon

Playing in the sand

Charlie would cover his feet with sand and then say "Where did my feet go?"

Charlie and I on the pontoon

Charlie and Grandma Cindy playing in the backyard. They would hit the ball and then race to get it. Some how Charlie always won.

Charlie loves corn on the cob.

Future Tiger Woods

Charlie loves to golf. He golfs almost everyday. He takes his iron and one of his nerf golf balls and hits it back and forth. He really hits the ball far. Here are some pictures of him in action:

Weekend at Lake 11

Friday on our way to Lake 11, we stopped in Barnesville to pick up a pizza from Ole & Lena's. It was going to be a 35 minute wait so we headed to a park to play. The park had a dinosaur theme and Charlie was having so much fun. 

He kept wanting to feed the dinosaur. "He look hungry!"

He liked riding these two.

After we got our pizza, we went to Papa and Nana's house. We stayed overnight on Friday. Saturday was gorgeous. We played down by the lake all afternoon. Charlie loved riding in the paddleboat with Nana and squirting us with water.

Everyone in the water. Even the dogs played in the water with us.

Riding with Nana in the paddleboat.

Squirting water

Playing in the water

Charlie likes to get the worms out of the container, rip them in half, and put them on the hook. 

There wasn't many fish biting this weekend.

Playing Ladder Ball

Popping bubbles with our "sword"

We came home Saturday so that Corey could pack Sunday morning for his trip. He left Sunday afternoon and is gone for 10 days. Charlie and I are keeping ourselves busy. We went and visited Grandma O. at Bethany on Sunday. On Monday, Charlie went to daycare to see his friends while I worked at school. Monday night, Madeline Randall stayed with us. We went to the pool to swim for awhile. Tuesday we played with Madeline and we are going to National Night Out at the park in Breckenridge.