Happy 30

(Didn't actually get this posted til a year and a half later)

I turned 30 years old this week. I feel pretty young.

The day began badly, waay too early, but it ended well with dinner with my family, flowers and Girl Scout cookies (samoas naturally). And lots of people love me, I had lots of calls and texts, thanks to everyone.

Funny things said to me on my birthday. (Yelled) "I want you to die!!  And "it's not your birthday tomorrow!"

Summer

Right after rolling over for the first time

Janie's Birthday Party

First Cupcake

Cousins at the lake

Leah throwing sand

Minnetonka Cave

We made it!

Starting Young

Anika Karen Sperry

One of the (very few) advantages of cold weather

Addition

It may be a little late notice but our family will be receiving an addition at the end of March. Janie got her wish and is going to have another sister. We're thinking about the name Anika (a-ni-ka, not ah-nee-ka) I am anticipating most people mispronouncing it, but a decision several months before the birth is less stressful than a few days after.

Pioneer Trek

We took our family on a pioneer trek. Although I was nervous about how the girls would handle things, everything went very smoothly. The girls were very well behaved and we had a good experience. It made me really appreciate the pioneers because I could start to imagine what it would be like to take a family on a journey like that

This is the girls riding in our handcart.

They even took naps while we were there!

Daddy Benjamin carrying a sleeping baby.

And all of us in our pioneer getup.

Some Summer Stuff