Cousin Joe's BDay

Sam was invited to celebrate his cousin Joe Hemberger's birthday.  Photo's here.

Minnesota Sledding

We took the kids sledding over the weekend.  Everyone had a great time except for me - I broke my hand and knuckle.  Photo's here.

NC to MN

We let the kids open their gifts from us before we loaded up the van to drive back to Minnesota.  The drive was as good as you can hope for but trekking 1,478.6 miles in a van with 3 kids, 1 dog, 1 cat and 2 adults = scent of a zoo!  Photos here.

Oceanaire

Tom was in town and took us out for dinner at the Oceanaire to celebrate Josie's birthday.  Photos here.

2009 Wakespring Thanksgiving

This was our 3rd turkey day in North Carolina and a bitter/sweet one considering we had announced our plans to move back to Minnesota.  Some of the best memories we have from Raleigh are from spending time on Thanksgiving with our neighbors.  More photos here.

Ireland

Kristi and I went to Ireland for a week and had a fantastic time. We were very fortunate that Grandma Kim came to watch the kids - thank you again Kim! The girls and Sam loved having Grandma here and our neighbors had a chance to get to know her better over a few cul-de-sac cocktails;-)

I kept a journal of our travels and I will be posting a full blog for each day we spent there as I have more time. In the meantime, here are links to photos and some videos we took.

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Day 6

Day 7

Day 8

Day 9

Carolina RailHawks

Nora spent the night at a friends house for a birthday sleepover so the rest of us went to a soccer game. This was our first visit to a Carolina RailHawks game and we had a great time - the RailHawks won 3 to 0. There was a military helicopter where you walked up to buy tickets and Sam got to sit in it. He told me later he was going to fly his own helicopter when he gets bigger.