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http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf Jess and I both attempted to write a bit about our trip but it all seems a bit of a blur right now. So hopefully these photos tell the story! Click here the photos in a full screen slideshow.

It's the FOURTH OF JULY! Right now I am waiting for Art to come back from his Big Boy fun time with school friend Henry, Henry's dad, his preschool teacher Ms Jen and her two boys, Wil and Henry. They all went to Powderhorn Park to see the fireworks. Art talked about seeing the fireworks all day. I think he must have asked me 30 times when he got to see them. Well, he's probably being walked back from the park right now. I hope he had a good time! Lewis saw some street fireworks after dinner and said it was too loud. And then "too loud AGAIN, Mama." He would cover his ears, but only buried his head into me one time. Mostly he still wanted to watch them. What's interesting is that when I checked on him after he was asleep tonight there were firecrackers going off and he covered his ears in his sleep. Tonight we will all three sleep in the Giant Bed with the a/c on. Ben is still on the way home with the minivan he wisely spared the kids and I the tort...

Today we leave this beautiful place and return home to minnesota (jess, her mom, and kids by plane, I'm driving to return Monday). We have a plethora of great photos to share, and happy memories that will slowly fade until we return with a family twice as large. We will miss it here. And I especially know Jessica's mother Adria will. She loved it here and I'm so happy she came. --Sent from my handheld device.--

So we rolled in today around four to the Center in Myrtle Beach. Jess was especially happy that we arrived when art and lew were sleeping--she has fond memories of magically arriving at her family's cottage after a long car nap. We saw a small alligator tonight swimming through the dark lake, something art was especially excited about. His bright red eyes lit up when our fashlight beam hit him. After we saw it Art immediately wanted to go home and tell mama who was having some time to herself. "Let's go Papa, come on," he said as the thing swam in our direction--I wanted to get a closer look but art just wanted to go tell mama. "I just really like to tell mama about the things I see," he explained. Meanwhile Lewis was scared of the loud secadas and wanted to be held. "ascared uhbugs, Papa." Wimp!!! There are so many spiders here. We stopped to watch one as it built its web. Amazing, really amazing. He looked chaotic and unfocused, barely holdi...

After the baby girls are born we will have 80 finger and toenails to trim, not including our own, of course