What my eyes have seen...

Well, this is my final blog post about Bemidji, Minnesota. I whole heartedly fell in love with this town, it's people & it's beautiful countryside. Our time spent there was such an amazing adventure & I miss it terribly. It was really neat to watch the seasons changing before my eyes. This is what I saw while living there...through the lens of my camera of course.

This shed was located across the street from our house.

This is the main road that our street was off of.

Living Room window

Our Cabin

Buena Vista Ski Resort

Kitchen window

Our street

Sunroom

Birch trees

Every day when Andi was napping, Dawson & I would walk down to the lake. In the image on the right, it was -25 degrees outside with a -50 degree wind chill. He's a trooper!

Turtle Lake
And although our time there is over, I know that someday I will have to go back...because I am pretty sure I left a part of myself there.

Minnesota Farewell Bar-B-Q

Our sweet friends, The Riches family, threw us a farewell bar-b-q our last week in town. Brian & Jenny have twin boys Aiden & Avery who are three years old. They are such a sweet family & I hate that we were just really starting to get to know them really well...right when it was time for us to move away!

Here is Brian giving a tractor ride to all the munchkins!

Here was our beautiful grill master!

Everyone at the table. Another family from church, The Hamlin family, was there too.

The big boys playing baseball.

Jenny, Evangeline & me

And here are the little cuties: Aiden & Avery

We hope to make it back to MN next summer so we can hang out with these awesome friends again!

School Easter Program

Right before we left Minnesota, the kids preschool put on an adorable Easter Program. Each class performed individually & Andi's class went first:

singing 'Little ones to HIM belong...'

singing 'The Bible tells me so.'

Here is her entire class on stage.

And, this was the most adorable part. Each child got to say a 'line' into the microphone. Each 'line' was the Easter story summarized by that particular child. So, some of them said things like 'Jesus got owies'...but my sweet girl Andi chose to say 'I love my Mommy.' We were all really surprised that she even spoke into the microphone at all! Here she is with her favorite teacher Mrs Charboneau.

Here they are praying for their snack at the end of the program. Andi absolutely refuses to hold hands with boys! I love it!

Then Dawson's class was next:

How cute is he??? He was SO nervous!

His whole class performing

Dawson with his teacher Miss Kim. Dawson's line was 'After 3 days, the angel came & moved the boulder.' He did so good! I was a very proud Mama.

Whole class again, about to pray together.

And here is Dawson with 'his girls!'

What a blessing this last school year was for my children! Thank you Calvary Lutheran preschool for loving my kiddos.