minneapolis 2009

tuesday we returned from an action packed trip to minnesota. dottie couldn't have been a better traveler and was a trooper throughout the whole trip. we saw my parents, cousins, aunt, and uncle on the front end and chuck's parents and family friends the lindens on the back end with an added bonus of seeing out friends luke and laura and their baby leif and an old friend from paper source, joni (unfortunately we spaced on taking pictures). from the pictures you might be asking yourself "where the heck are they?". we stayed at my kathy's house for the first couple of nights they have just about every piece of sports equipment you could possibly imagine with 2 active boys running around. dottie jumped on their trampoline, played hockey, skateboarded, rocked out to guitar hero... the last 3 nights we stayed at the waterpark of america near the mall of america. we ended up having a really fantastic time there and dottie zoomed down a good number of the water slides (even one that mom was hesitant to try! she clapped afterwards and screamed "more, more, more"). the highlight of the visit for dottie was of course seeing both sets of grandparents!!!!

click HERE to check out more of the pictures from our trip.

lily and dottie