Froemmings

This year our planned extended weekend at Dead Lake was this past weekend. The forecast wasn't very promising, but we decided to go for it and left on Friday morning. We got to Dana's parents' cabin, unloaded and hit up Zorbaz for lunch on Otter Tail.  After we got back, we did some four-wheeling and then headed into Fergus to visit our good friends who live just outside of town. They built a new house three years ago and finally made it over to see it. Monica gave us a tour of the property as well and brought the .22 in case we came upon the pesky skunk that's been lurking around. While we visited and waited for Adam to come home from work the kids all got into painting faces with make-up on paper plates. Adam was commissioned to be the judge... Once the winner (Drew!) was awarded, we went out to eat at the Legion for supper. Thanks for a side-splitting fun time, Petersens! It got a little late for Clara by the time we got ...

We were able to spend Father's Day not with just Dana, but both of our dads as well. Brynn made some special Father's Day brownies on Friday. Yum! haha - Clara wore herself out today with a bike ride and a long walk after dinner. Working in the garden. I am so grateful to have a husband like Dana who is such a wonderful dad to our girls. We love you!

I had a good trip down to New Orleans (which I quickly realized they now call NOLA = New Orleans, LA) a couple of weeks ago for work. Of course it was ridiculously hot and humid...and it just never cools down! After our trade show work was done during the day, we would walk around near Fremont Street and catch a bite to eat. We were invited to a private party by one of our customers where they had rented out the House of Blues for the evening. They had some fun appetizers to try. I did get in on some good seafood while I was down there. My boss took me here (Cafe Du Monde) twice for beignets. So yummy! I was with my boss, a coworker and one of our former interns who came to the trade show with us one night and we still had a long walk yet back to our hotel when my co-worker blew out her flip flop. It was the best thing to happen to us as we had just come upon this bicycle rickshaw thing. It was so fun. Our last night there we ate at Cochon Butcher which w...