Rewind

Looking through the massive picture files, I noticed that I missed a few fantastic opportunities for posts on the ol' blog. So if you don't mind, here is a bit of a review of some highlights I missed...



We took the kids on their first camping adventure back in June! We went to Buffalo River State Park, which is about 15 miles east of Moorhead. It's a beautiful little area. We had so much fun and will hopefully find time to go back before summer is over!

A highlight to Buffalo S.P. is the swimming area! It is a man-made pond, that is filtered and chlorinated like a pool, but has a sandy bottom and beach like a lake! It's great! The kids had so much fun playing in the water and sand.
We so enjoyed our little family getaway. Even though it was just for a day. It doesn't get any better than being outdoors, having special eats and treats, chasing fireflies, sleeping in a tent, and waking up with the sun.

A weekly happening for the Saari crew this summer has been baseball! Caleb is in a 9 yr. old league this year, and plays for the 'RedHawks'. With Monday and Tuesday practices and Wednesday being game day with double-headers, the first half of most our weeks have been pretty busy since the end of May.

Brady got to have a taste of summer baseball this year too! He played "Big Bopper" with the 'Athletics' and even had Daddy for a coach! Big Bopper is basically t-ball with a large wiffle bat. This, of course, was slightly below Brady's normal "level of play", but he had a blast with it anyway!

Game days were definitely the highlight for the Athletics. It was so much fun to watch the kids improve as their short season went along. Unfortunately the weather wasn't very cooperative, and more than half of their games were rained out.

The last big event for June was Chuck & Julie's wedding! They were married on June 25th, (fun fact: June 25th this year just happened to be the 12th anniversary of Matt and my first official date as well as the 9th anniversary of our engagement... let's hear it?? "awwwwww!")

The bride and groom lucked out with perfect weather for an outdoor wedding in the country. It was a beautiful day for a lovely couple!

Here are the happy newlyweds ready to boogie the night away!

As Best Man, Matt thought it was his duty to take the groom for a spin around the dance floor. We had a great time dancing and celebrating Mr. & Mrs. Cofield to the very last song. Super fun night!



Maija has graduated from her crib into a BIG GIRL BED! She has done awesome with the transition and is so proud of her new, pretty bed!

And finally we have a few pictures from 4th & 5th of July. Sadly, I did not manage to take very many pictures of our two day celebration. But we had fun! Sunshine, BBQ and small explosives!? What could be better?

Sparklers were a huge hit with our kids on the 4th, and we set off a few smaller, ground fireworks in the driveway. Always a good time!

Even Noah got in on the action this year! He was a bit mesmerized by, and maybe a little afraid of the sparklers...

We got two days out of this holiday thanks again to the soggy weather we've been having all summer long! The 4th got cut a little short thanks to a slurry of storms that popped up before we really got to enjoy our usual fireworks festivities... But the 5th was much more pleasant and we did a 4th of July RE-DO with all the neighbors. More sparklers. More fireworks in the driveway. And the grand finale being the annual MSUM fireworks extravaganza viewed from the best spot in the neighborhood, our deck! Can't wait for next year!

So, I think that pretty well covers the important happenings that this blogger forgot to blog about!