may the fourth be with you

Monday (May 4th) was Star Wars Day: "May the Fourth Be With You." We took the girls to the Minnesota Twins baseball game, where they celebrated with Star Wars Night. Between innings there was Star Wars trivia, the players were holding light sabers instead of baseball bats in their at bat photos, and there were other Star Wars activities going on. Olivia and Violet were giddy with excitement after meeting several Star Wars characters! Apparently I don't know my characters well enough though, I called a Jawa an Ewok and was immediately corrected. We walked around for two innings looking for Darth Vader, but we were not able to find him so the girls were a little bummed out about that. All in all, it was a fun night! And yes, we did spend some time actually watching the game!

Go Twins!

With Darth Maul and his stormtroopers

Olivia and Violet love Star Wars!!

We also had a lot of fun this past weekend. On Friday, May 1st, we celebrated my nephew William's 6th birthday at Pump It Up. All of the Thronson cousins were there, which was really fun! The kids all had fun jumping around on the inflatables and going down a super fast slide. I raced Violet through the obstacle course, I was trying to go so fast that I ended up crashing into my sister Terri at the bottom of the slide! And Violet still beat me! It was a fun time.

Happy birthday William!

On Saturday morning, May 2nd, we went out on Lake Minnetonka with my sister Nikki and her family. They just bought a boat so we were happy they let us tag along to try it out! The weather was just beautiful so we had fun cruising around and looking at all of the fancy houses.

Relaxing on Lake Minnetonka

The afternoon of May 2nd, we celebrated my brother-in-law Aaron's 40th birthday. They had a party at their house, we had a great time initiating the set of bean bag boards that Jamie made, which Terri gave to Aaron as his birthday gift.

The bean bag boards that Jamie made

On April 25th, we celebrated my niece Claire's 6th birthday. She had a pirate themed party at Arrowwood in Alexandria. We had a great meal, opened presents and then had fun in the Arrowwood waterpark. Everyone got a kick out of these adhesive mustaches!!!

Claire's birthday party