Our trip to Minnesota

Laura and I went to visit my sisters in St. Cloud, MN and Baxter, MN. Our goal for the trip was to get family photos taken for the first time in almost a million years! My parents would meet up in Minnesota the next day. We started out our trip up at my sister Emily's house in Woodinville, WA

Here is Laura and her cousin Andrew playing a chase game at Emily's house.

Here is Laura and I on her first plane ride! She did so well. She slept most of the ride and didn't cry at all! We traveled with Emily and her family from SEA to MSP.

The day after we arrived at my sister Jennifer's house in St. Cloud there was a tornado warning and we had to scoop up all the kids and we went to the lower basement. The scary thing was Jennifer was at work and the only one of us that had been in a tornado warning was Jennifer's daughter Holly, and she is 5.



Here is Laura reading a book while we waited in the tornado shelter for the warning to expire.

Here is Holly and Andrew watching cartoons on the laptop and eating Goldfish crackers in the shelter. Apparently cartoons help calm the nerves durring a tornado warning.

Here is the sky after the tornado warning expired.

Another picture after the tornado warning. We then went to my sister Kathryn's house in Baxter.

Here is a picture of Laura and I at my sister Kathryn and her husband Brett's church on Sunday.

Here is my sister Jennifer and her Son, Thomas and daughter Holland. Izzy is on the top. She is my other sister Kathryn's daughter.

Kathryn's kids Izzy and Ethan standing next to the doughnuts.

This is what the people in this area in Minnesota call a "mountain". This is their down hill ski slope. HA HA HA!

Kathryn and Thomas at the lake. (One of ten thousand)

Here is Laura and I with Paul Bunyan, on our way out of town.