Such a nice week!

 Anna & Elizabeth made me a cake one morning before I headed to teach music.  

 What sweethearts!

 Valerie, .....just being herself!

 

 Valerie did cute 4th of July toes!

 

  I did patriotic hair on the girls.  It turned out nice!

 Valerie & Anna each ran in the race on the 4th.  Valerie did the 10k and Anna the 5k

 Valerie & Steven ran the 10k together as team "Westlings"

 GO!

 Here comes Anna in green after 30 minutes! 

 Proud Mama!

 Waiting now for Valerie & Steven....

 GO TEAM WESTLINGS!

 Here they come!  68 minutes later!

 Whew!  So tired and hot!

 Kids race...Yes, Val & Steven jumped back in and ran that too!

 There's my Elizabeth!

 

 Go Amelia!

 4th of July fun at the lake with relatives

 A nephew who caught and cooked his "snack" 

 Tubing with friends later, before fireworks

 Pontoon ride across the lake with our friends, the Scherlings

 We took 2 boats....it was a caravan!

   It was fun to watch them go around us as we went along! 

 Tying up together in the middle of Lake Bemidji to watch the fireworks 

 My amazing children! 

 

 Park fun

 Water carnival fun.  A random grandma lady stopped us as we walked through the carnival
and gave us 6 extra tickets for rides that she had.  So...the kids each went on 1 ride!

 

 Matthew loved his horse! 

 

 Waiting for the parade

 It's fun to sit with friends!

 

 Thumbs up for the awesome racecars!

 Waterski show!

 

 Someone has had too much fun this weekend!  Sound asleep with his parade candy in hand & mouth!