Minnesota!

Our family trip to Minnesota was great. My entire immediate family made the trek up to Minnesota and while we were there we got to see most of our extended family as well. We started the trip out with a night in St. Paul and visited the Mall of America. We took Ashton on a few rides there and then headed to Snuffy's for dinner. They have the best malts! On our way up to the resort we stopped by and looked at my Grandma's old house. It still looks the same! That house has so many great memories for me, and I found myself getting teary eyed while we stopped there. One of the best memories there was my Grandma's cookies. She would bake several tins of cookies for us each Christmas and leave them on the front porch. For some reason the cookies tasted so good after sitting on that cool porch. After reminiscing, we headed to the resort, New Frontier in Little Falls. It was really awesome. They had a beach front lake, paddle boats, a trampoline in the lake, a water bike, a playground, shuffle board (which is actually a really fun game!), COOL weather, and an incredible view of the stars at night. One of my favorite parts of the trip was at night when all the kids were getting ready for bed. We started a tradition there where we would all sing songs together before going to bed. Jeff even joined us on the last night by brining his guitar in. The kids were SOOO cute! We spent so much quality time together as a family on this trip, and I am so thankful that we were all able to be together. We used to go to Minnesota every single Christmas growing up, but we hadn't been there in 5 years now.