Lake Superior

In mid September, we decided to take a road trip to Duluth, MN to visit one of the Great Lakes. We spent the weekend there and had fun exploring the area. We arrived late Friday night and got dinner then checked into our hotel. On Saturday we went on a walk around Lake Superior...

It was a nice day so Gigi and Liam decided to wade in the water a little, it was cold water though!

family selfie

we ate dinner at a cute little Italian place

On Sunday we went to explore the lighthouse and the Aerial Lift Bridge...

Here are the crazy kids as we're checking out of our hotel!

Twins Game

Adam got some free tickets from work to the Twins game so we took the kids to the game with us. They always love going to ball games since they get to eat hot dogs, fries and cotton candy (of course!).

view from our seats

  

 family selfie

Home Updates

This summer we made a few updates to our home. First, we changed the paint color from white to gray. The white had gotten really dirty over the years so we decided to go with a color that wouldn't show the dirt as much. Here's the before...

and after! We also added shutters and changed the door color to brighten it up!

 The next project was replacing the tile on our fireplace hearth. It was old and dingy and we just didn't like it. Here's a pic before...

 Adam helped to demo the old tile and I did all the new tile myself. Here's some progress pics...

 

 and after...

I think it makes the room feel much brighter and fresher :)