Back at Brainerd

This weekend brought us back to Brainerd/Baxter, and I’ll admit it was a bit strange to be there again. We lived in the town less than a year, and not long into that year we knew we’d have to move on after school let out in the spring.  So, it was surprising to go back and realize what I’ve miss since we’ve been gone – really, it made me think about the things we miss from ALL of the different parts of our very scattered life these past 7 years, and certainly grateful for all we have right now. (This will be the first year since college that we are not moving to a new house, town, state…!)

ANYWAY – I insisted that Sara clear her calendar  for Friday night and Saturday morning so that I could have her undivided attention. 🙂 She graciously agreed, and I had the best time laughing with her and catching up. Here are our silly pictures from our Tour de Baxter, including our stop at good old Forestview Middle School.

We headed over to the Svir’s for Axton’s birthday party this afternoon. He’s getting bigger and has mastered walking… The last time we’d seen him he was just taking his first steps. Time goes way too quickly.

He had a house full of family and friends there to help celebrate, and he was especially excited about the music set his cousins gave him. I was mighty impressed by this gift, as Bill and always think it’s fun to find noisy toys to give to our friends’ kids since we don’t have any of our own yet. (Helene is my new hero!)

It was great to catch up with the Svir/Mitzner crew!

I really can’t believe it’s taken 9 months to get back to Baxter. It was so much fun – we’ve got to go back again soon.