Our visit from our WBL friends

Last Thursday night, our friends, Michele, Laura, and Nate rolled into town for a visit. It was the first visit of friends from MN since we moved down to IN.I had lots of projects planned to keep the girls busy and quiet while the littleones slept at naptime. Here they are making cookies that look like turkeys.
At some some point during the decorating, I caught both girls sucking frosting out of the plastic bag. After that, the grownups pretty much avoided eating any cookies.
Then we were treated to a "show" that involved singing, dancing and jokes.
Even Annalise takes part in the show.

While Nate was here, he tried to eat us out of house and home. Ithink he ate just as much as the three girls combined.
We took all the kids to church on Saturday evening. Sunday morning, Jim and Annalise went on the donut run (pretty early by all standards). Guess what flavor Annalise had?

And one last pic of all the kiddos together. It was a great vacation and judging by the complete exhaustion by the kiddos tonight (lots of screaming and gnashing of teeth), it was a successful trip. We wish them a safe journey home.

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Potty Training update: Annalise is doing great! She is wearing and keeping her panties dry when we go out. (we do visit a lot of public restrooms). She even stayed dry when we went to "old McDonalds" today. She sucked down a chocolate milk and played in the playplace with no incident.

And yes, we know we lost the bet on the Minnesota/Wisconsin game. What can we say? Old habits of MN losing die hard. Anyway, we are expecting Juner to show up on our doorstep any minute. I will also post "on Wisconsin"-the taller version, when I get some cooperative performers. And, for those of you still wondering about the meaning of Ski-U-Ma:

In the fall of 1884, the Minnesota football coach, newly arrived from Princeton, often divided his players into two competing squads for practices and yelled, "Sis-Boom-Ah. Princeton!" when the squad he favored scored a touchdown.John W. Adams, UM class of 1886, and his roommate, "Win" Sargent, decided to try to get even by making up a cheer characteristic of Minnesota. They came up with "Ski-OO," which Adams recalled as an expression of success Sioux Indians called out after victory in a canoe race and other athletic events. Adams added "Mah" to rhyme with rah and Minnesota.As first written, emphasis was put on the second syllable in each of three lines. The cheer was "Rah. RAH. Rah." Then, "Ski! OO! Mah!" And finally, with a syllable omitted, "Minn-SO-ta!" By 1885, the phrase appeared in a university publication called "Ariel" as Ski-U-Mah.