Dancercise Recital - Puppy Love

Here is another dance routine to "Puppy Love". Of course, she named her puppy "Samson".

(Sorry about the camera angle)

Dancercise Recital

On Tuesday Mallory had her very first Dancercise recital at school. Here she is dancing along to a song about Cupid.

Lutsen - Last Trip

Last June unfortunately meant our last trip up to Lutsen to visit Tom and Nancy, who moved to Arizona shortly thereafter. So we had one last chance to enjoy all of our favorite pasttimes...

Hanging out around the fire...

Eating smores...

Seeing wildlife...

Going for adventures (miss you buddy)

And enjoying nature. Our next trip to see them will take a little longer to get there, and undoubtedly will be much warmer. Thanks to Tom and Nancy for hosting us many, many times and sharing their North Woods Moxie.

Ice Skating

We are going to fast forward briefly here for the blog. Mallory recently got her first set of ice skates. This is video from today, not too bad for only her second time out.

Memorial Day - Minnesota Zoo

Wanting to take advantage of the long holiday weekend, we all went down to the Minnesota Zoo to check out some of the new exhibits.
One area we visited for the first time was the large new playground that was put in. Mallory and Mom went climbing up into the tree house.

Then Mallory tried her hand at a fishing boat.

Then it was back inside to check out some marine life. Mallory is helping Dad find the fish, as he was never a very good fisherman.

It turns out if we wanted to see some wildlife we could have saved ourselves the trip, as we had wild turkeys in our backyard when we returned.

Memorial Day - Medicine Lake

The Held family spent their first Memorial Day in a long time at home in Plymouth, so there was plenty of time for the gang to go on some adventures. First off was a picnic at Medicine Lake, just a short bike ride from the house.

After eating some delicious PB&J sandwiches, Mallory had some energy and was ready to conquer the tire swing.

Dad was too, apparently, as he wasn't about to let Mallory have all the fun.

Then it was over to Medicine Lake to check out the beach and the water.

Mallory had fun watching all the boats and people playing in the water.

Twins Game

Mallory didn't get enough partying done the night before the party, so she decided to go to another Twins game the next day.

Mallory got her Twins shirt and hat on...

...and a backpack filled with lots of snacks.

She loved walking in the skyways on the way to the game.

Not quite the VIP seats we had last time, but still pretty good.