Family
Heartfelt updates about family milestones and everyday moments. From taking Mazie to college and annual visits to the Renaissance Festival to Swedish‑pancake breakfasts and VR outings with the kids, this category celebrates togetherness.
Tyler and Mazie have found a bunch of fun summer destinations in 111 Places in the Twin Cities That You Must Not Miss. We are flipping through it this morning and it’s impressive! 👏
Introducing Mazie to the 1980’s by watching Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Classic. 🎬
We dropped Tyler off for his first overnight camp. Just two nights. Experienced some nervousness and anxiety as we sent him off, but Tyler seemed okay. 😬
Tyler scoring a run this weekend. ⚾️
Took my Canon 5D Mark II with the 70-200 f/2.8L to Tyler’s baseball game today. Good reminder of how far iPhone photography has to go. 📷
Mazie got Nintendo Labo for the Switch, and has been busy building her piano kit for hours and is having a blast. Labo is such a unique game experience. 👍🏻
Today is the State competition for National History Day. Mazie has her documentary ready to go. This will be a fun day. 🤞🏻
Snow day seems like a good day to get the Z-Scale train out.
Model trains are always fun. Tyler and I are running the train yard today. Z-Scale is hard though.
Family selfie at the Wisconsin Dells Kalahari Resort! Tyler’s black eye memorialized.
Mazie passed through regionals and is now moving onto the statewide competition for National History Day. Very proud of her!
I got to be a guest reader in Tyler’s class today. Was fun to pick out a bunch of books for the 2nd Graders. 📚
At Feed My Starving Children to pack meals. Tyler wanted to come here for his birthday. Love this handmade graph of progress.
We packed 22 boxes at Feed My Starving Children this morning! 🙌🏻 Tyler picked a great event for his birthday!
We made 34,344 meals, enough to feed 94 kids for a year!
We got Tyler a Loog Pro Electric Red guitar and little Fender Mini Amp for birthday. 🎸🎂 Huge hit! 👍🏻 Now I sort of want one of these Loog Pro Electric guitars. 😊
Hosted Tyler’s bowling birthday party! 🎂 🎳
Kids had a great time. 🎉
Could use a nap now. 💤
Tyler and I played Super Mario Odyssey through a few levels today and had a blast. The game is filled with little hidden gems. And playing as other characters with the hat is amazing. 👍🏻💯
Tyler and I did this LEGO Technic RC Tracked Racer. Very fun! One of the most impressive LEGO kits we’ve done.
Hung these shelves in Tyler’s room. They look great but what a pain to hang! 😤
Tyler and I playing some Five Crowns.
Mazie seems excited for MEA weekend! Kids are off school rest of the week!
