On our way to ND

Heading to North Dakota for the All School Reunion and Papa Rex's birthday party.

We usually leave pretty early in the morning thinking that little Miss Esme will sleep a bit.  I don't know why we hope for this because it never happens.  We left home around 5:30am.  By the time we got to Fargo, Esme needed to get out of the car so we stopped at the mall in Fargo.  It wasn't open yet, but the little play area for kids was open and no one else was there!  I took a few pictures of the play area because I think it's very cool!

After we left there we went to Starbucks for me and to the empty lot behind Starbucks for the dogs to run around a bit.  Then we were back on the road to NE.

Esme did really great the entire trip.  She never slept though, that is until we had about 10 minutes left of our almost 9 hour drive.  Right by the Dickinson Airport she finally fell asleep.

Oh well, some sleep is better than none, right?

Minnehaha Falls

Today we had lunch with Aaron in Minneapolis.  Esme and I had to run an errand and decided to meet Aaron at Minnehaha Falls to eat at Sea Salt.  They have such good food and it's a perfect place to spend a summer day.

After we got done eating we walked over and looked at the Falls.

Then we said goodbye to Daddy and went back to our car for the ride home.  Daddy went back to work.

Lunch in Minneapolis is fun!

Thirsty 4th

I'm not sure why, but I didn't take a lot of pictures on the 4th of July.  My parents were here and we went over to Dan and Barb's house.

The girls had fun with a slip and slide.  Esme figured out that you could drink the water and after that there was no stopping her.

        

       

She thought Annika and Laurel looked thirsty too!

New utensils

Esme's been doing great with a spoon for a long time now.  But recently she's been working with a fork.

And trying her hand at a glass instead of a sippy cup.

Sometimes she has to wipe up her messes.

And sometimes she just has to make funny faces.