Scott, Isabel, and I decided to fly to MN for spring this year. We were able to take advantage of walleye fishing, Mother's Day, and spring migration! It was a fantastic trip overall.
We spent a lot of time at Jon and Christa's house and Bell got to enjoy playing in the grass and watching birds.
We headed north into Wisconsin to visit Grandma Karen and to check out our land. I survived my first night away from Isabel.
Grandma Karen got to witness Bell's voraceous little appetite first hand.
Bell's first experience on a swing. If she has mama's motion sickness tendencies, she will not make a habit of this.
Bell enjoyed her mini vacation by the lake. She witnessed an all out brawl between a territorial psychopath Canada goose and a pair of unsuspecting geese. She saw a nesting pair of Common Loons, and heard them sing.
We now have land in WI, MN, and AK. As you can see from the above picture it makes Jen happy and Bell a little nervous that we are overextending ourselves, but despite Bell's concerns we are moving ahead with building a very small house on our newly acquired AK land.
Bell enjoys sitting by herself and playing with the vegetation and mosquitoes while mom and dad work on clearing the land for a house and driveway.
We should have a nice view from our two acre lot, with mountains on three sides. We had Jen's co-worker, who does dirt work, start cutting a driveway in for us.
Its not all work for us, we had a nice walk in the park after work, where we taught Bell the finer points of exotic plant eradication.
Isabel had a nice day visiting Grandpa Steve. She had some more lawn time, saw many old photos, and laughed hysterically at the cat and tried to run after him!
