A birthday party, hikes and keeping busy!

My parents left a week ago and it has been so quiet at the house. Luckily we had to take care of Caroline's house so we kept busy.. but those first couple of days are just quiet.. really quiet.. But slowly we are getting back in our groove. We are needing to take care of Caroline's house pretty much the rest of the month.., so we will make lots of pictures of the ranch and the hottub for you. But here are some fun photos of the last week.


Kara, one of Lilja's friends turned 5 today and we went bowling.. It was a lot of fun.. might become our new thing for this family.. we all seem to enjoy it.. and FYI Aran is really really good!!

 

there was a little merry go round in the bowling allay of all things.. it was the toy of the day..

 

Opa and Oma have been gone for a week and we are slowly getting used to all the quiet in the house. so we are taking walks and keeping ourselves busy..

Lilja had her rain boots on and was heading for the water.. those boots are not for swimming!!!

Hmmm, look at that look.. what is she thinking!!

and she just kept running..and running..

 

the day my parents left we painted Lilja's ghost pumpkin..Keeping busy alright..all three of us. do you see the ghost cut out of the pumpkin??  aran did that!! and I made roasted pumpkin seeds.

 

 

and we made the dutch cookies Oma had bought with her.. al these things we wanted to do while they were here but had no time to do.. We did it all in one day.. Too much time on our hands 

they turned out pretty good..They usually are not for decorating, but we had some time.. did I tell you we had time on our hands???