Swimming, Flooding, Baking and More

I have been a very bad blogger! I guess you could say I have had a bad case of bloggers block. So here I am to get a little caught up on things.

First, my new habit challenge. I am happy to say that now, just over 4 month in and well past my 66 day challenge, I am still exercising. Not every day but I do try to get in at least 3-5 days a week. I'm still not in love with exercising but I only kind of hate it now. However, I am in love with how I feel. I am amazed at how different I feel and that, truly, is what keeps me going. About 3 weeks into my challenge the snow plow went by and plowed our driveway shut with a 2 foot mound of heavy snow. I went out to help Kelly shovel so that we could get the cars in the driveway and was amazed at my stamina. In the past I would not have been able to shovel for more than 5 minutes. I was able to do almost half the driveway and even Kelly was shocked at how far I was throwing the snow.

Second, it is spring in Crookston which means flooding.
So far the water is going where it is supposed to. Every year the campground next to the river floods instead of the water coming into the neighborhoods along the river. It really seems to be a pretty neat set up.

Both of the girls had swimming in gym this year. I was pretty shocked being that they are both in elementary school, but they were so excited and loved it. They only allowed parents to be there for the kindergartners so I was not able to get pictures of Ada but I did get some of Emily.






Emily has always been my little helper. I never have to ask if she wants to help me with anything. One of her favorite things to help me with is baking. I don't bake very often so when I do I try and make sure that she has something to do.




On this afternoon we made chocolate chip banana bread. I did not get a picture of it after I baked it because it didn't last long enough.

One of my favorite things about spring is going to a scarp booking retreat with my sister. It is 3 days of scrap booking and making my sister laugh (one of my favorite things to do!). We stay up late, sleep in, go for walks and have such a good time. I love my sister so much and next to going on vacation with my husband and kids, this is one of the highlights of my year!