Memorial Day Weekend

After the busyness surrounding the past few weeks, including Kate's birthday, we made a conscious effort to not have many plans this past weekend.  In fact, besides church, the only "scheduled" activity was Monday's parade.  The rest was either stuff that needed to get done, or fun that needed to be had, including our first pool afternoon of the year ;)

Last week we finished up our first week of summer by going to up the Circus World Museum in Baraboo with some friends.  Fun times.  A short circus show, some great museum displays, dress up,

picnic lunch, cotton candy,

the playground, old circus wagons,

the carousel, and an absolutely beautiful day.

 
Just prior to that, we had a pretty wicked wind storm here on Thursday - upwards of 30 mile per hour sustained winds with higher gusts all day.  With the field behind our house being planted just the day before, our entire back yard became littered with corn husks.

On a positive note, the onions, garlic, and potatoes all got mulched very well.  However, we spent some of Saturday morning raking up the rest of the yard.  Plus, one of our apple trees was blown over that day :(  (It broke off right at the graft!)

Speaking of the yard, over the course of the weekend, we ate fresh asparagus, broccoli, pea pods, lettuce, and even a few strawberries.  Yum, yum, yum!  The girls and I had more asparagus yesterday for lunch, more pea pods today, and went strawberry picking this morning with Melissa, Anna's godmother.


And finally, Kate had her 3-year check up this afternoon.  We've got one ridiculously healthy little girl :)  She's 38 inches tall (65%) and 35 lbs. (85%).  I think Anna was about that we she was three, and has since "stretched out".  The girls were simply hilarious and a bit precocious at the doctor's office with both the nurse and the doctor.  I can say that now that they're both in bed and the experience is several hours behind me, but at the time it was all I could do to reign in their excess afternoon energy while confined to the small examining room.  Please don't ask my kids if they can hop while we're in a small room for more than 10 minutes :)  And then we still had to do a big grocery shopping trip.  Anyway, it was a good visit for Kate.