Weekend in Red Wing

Last weekend Andy spent the weekend in Ohio. Simon, Theodore, and I headed to Red Wing...and since we had the camera, you'll all just have to wonder what happened in Ohio when Andy, Pete, and Alex got together! ;-) Here's a look at what we did:

Simon got to help Grandma Marilyn make some waffles.

The highlight of the weekend, for Simon and I, was a trip to the Children's Theater in Minneapolis, to see Babe with Grandma Marilyn and Uncle Peter. We both really enjoyed it--thanks Grandma and Grandpa!

Theodore had fun too--while we were at the show, he and Grandpa Steve went to the Como Conservatory. And later he got to play a little piano with Grandma.

A few weekends ago (I'm losing track now of the days...) we joined Andy's extended family for their annual ice skating party. Jess didn't get a chance to skate this year, but she and Theodore headed down to watch for a while.

Andy skated, and Aunt Colleen loaned us some skates for Simon to try, but he was a bit afraid, I think. He did have a blast being pulled around on the ice in his sled, though! We're hoping to get out skating somewhere in town before winter's done so he can have another chance to try it.

In other news, we got a breadmaker--it was a Christmas gift from Andy's grandparents, but we just recently got around to picking the model we wanted and actually had it shipped to us. So we've been having fun trying it out:

We had homemade pizza Saturday night--dough courtesy of the breadmaker...

...and toppings courtesy of Simon (with more than a little guidance, so that we didn't have one BIG pile of toppings right in the middle!

We've also baked three loaves of bread in the past few days--this was the very first! Yum!