Hello! I bet you all thought I'd abandoned the blog... well, I'll admit I've been lazy but also have been having some issues with downloading pictures to our computer lately! Excuses aside, here's a ton of pictures for you enjoyment! We'll start off first with our new nephew and G's baby cousin Andrew Carl Balsam!! He was born on April 25th and weighed 11 lbs 1 oz. We are so excited to meet this little guy soon!!! 

So cute!!

The weekend that Andrew was born we were in St. Paul for Jeff's yearly work conference. So the following pictures are from Sunday to Friday.

We came home from the weekend and Auntie Beth was in town! 

G spent lots of time walking up and down the stairs.

On Saturday, we went to the Minnesota Children's Museum with our friends Alison and Eli.

Grant had a long conversation with this little dog in the Clifford section. I wish I knew what he's saying!

I wonder what they're thinking?

There was an ice fishing exhibit that G liked to play with. 

Bubble craziness!!

We spent a lot of time playing in the water area. The boys LOVED it!

G also really liked the grocery store. It was one of the first places we went and he didn't really understand that there was lots to com

e so it was a little tricky getting him out of there!

All tuckered out!

We went to Como Zoo on Friday. 

While I was loading up the stroller Grant had a good time playing with leaves.

Checking out the Lions. They were so close!!

One of Grant's favorite animals right now is the Giraffe so he was really excited to see these amazing animals.

They had bison too.

We were pretty excited to see that there was a species called Grant's Zebra!

Friday morning we visited with my Grandma Grace.

Grant had a blast with this balloon!

Shades.

While shopping with the ladies a while ago I found these sunglasses! So Cute!

Walking with Auntie Courtney in the mall.

All tuckered out.

Hi Friends! We've been keeping busy over here. We had a really nice day last week so we spent some time outside. G LOVED it! He didn't want to come inside! We're getting excited for Spring to come so we can spend lots of time outside. Here are some of photos from that day.

At one point he actually fell in a puddle but didn't care at all!


Loving life on the hippo.

Reading books inside.

Thanks Cousin Jack for all the wonderful clothes! We love it!!

We got new snow last week so I decided to bring some in for G to play with.

First, he just looked at it.


Then, he tried to see if this mysterious stuff would move if he tilted the bin, trying to get the snow out...

and finally he touched it.

Afterwards, he tried to dump it out again.

When all of his testing was done, he decided it was fun to play with snow!

Squeakers.

I decided to take a video of G walking in his favorite shoes. They squeak and he loves them! I got some bonus footage of him showing off at the end of the video.

Fun at the Farm

This past Saturday G and I drove down to the family farm to surprise my parents and Grandma. We had a great time!
Playing catch with Grandpa

Grandma was whispering sweet nothings in Grants ears.

Grant was fascinated with Flicka. We heard a lot of 'woofs' from Grant.

We were super excited that the Ericksons came to Duluth to visit! We missed you Anna!

Jeff, Grant, Elin, Ray & Axel

Hanging out at Grandpa and Grandma's house.

Carol & G

Who needs toys?

We took a quick trip down the the cities to go to Ikea and spend some time with our good friends! Here are some pics from the trip.

Good Eats.

Eli and Grant

Grant loved playing in Eli's big box.

This is Jeff and G's favorite game, its called Hang On. Grant puts his arms around Jeff's neck and Jeff says, "HANG ON!" G thinks this is the best game ever!

Hello out there!

More box fun! These boys are so cute!

Many thanks to D, A & E for letting us crash at their house!

hi friends, my mom has been such a slacker at getting pictures up on the site that i finally took a picture of my self and posted it. see how i set the timer and ran back to get my drawing for the picture and all she did was sit there!


finally! a good one.

Pretty funny...or scary! :)

This is what G does when he gets a pop can...

Ahhh, so refreshing!