The Falcon's Nest: July 2005

Reach for that ball!

That's a good one Coach!

Keely

Caleb & Coach Tollefson

I'm Ready!

Cheese!

MYSTIC ISLE

Links

I haven't figured out how to do the links thing yet. I know, I know, it supposed to be simple, but I am muddling through this with no instruction and am limited to abou 10 minutes at a time to go at it. Call it maternal ADD if you must call it something! Anyhow, check these out when you get a chance, my dad's blog: www.pmci7517.blogspot.com, Tim's web page: www.phivo.com, Beth's web page: www.demarcowebdesigns.com, and Troy's page: www.themcdevittstudio.com. I think that my Aunt Sheila has a site too, but I don't know what it is yet.

Gabriel asks, "Deh, Deh?" for the ten thousanth time that day. Loosely translated that means, "What's this?".

Caleb wants to know if we can swim in water with all that green stuff in it!

Daddy waiting for our group to decide where we're going for lunch. We decided on Convention Grill, near the intersection of France and Sunnyside in Edina, which has the best fries and malts ever!

X-Man with the magic wand he made. The battery pack and circuitry are taped to the inside and an aluminum foil ring he wears completes the circuit causing it to light up!

A small park along Lake Calhoun.

The Bakken Museum is directly across the street from Lake Calhoun, one of the major water features of downtown Minneapolis. It has jogging paths all the way around it, and several little beaches and parks along it's shore.

Actual props from the Harry Potter films.

Saturday, July 16, we attended a Harry Potter event at the Bakken Museum in Minneapolis. There were actual props from the movie, owls from the Raptor Center in St. Paul, and a huge room set up for the kids to make wizzards' hats, owl puppets, and magic wands. The wands were also a lesson in electrical circuitry. We went with our friends, the Farners, who had been up until 2 am the night before celebrating the release of the latest Harry Potter book at Barnes and Noble in the Mall of America.

Thought of the day...

Last night I posted most of the photos that I have of our new home so that our family and friends might have a sense of the space that we're occupying now, and so that when I start to wax lyrical about where I want to plant something that they might have a better visual of it. My grandmother's cousin, Mary Jo Ann, and her daughter, Lisa, drove over from Edina yesterday and we went to lunch together at The Victoria House. Afterward they stopped by to see the house, Mary Jo had seen it before we closed on it, but Lisa never had. With cardboard boxes everywhere and laundry waiting to be folded, it was not how I would have liked them to see it, but they were very gracious and said that they preferred to see it that way! We had a very nice visit. Well, I have to take the two older boys to swim lessons now. Maybe I'll get some photos there to add later. Love and miss all of you!