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All of the Treacy cousins met up for the annual Christmas Pizza party. I think everyone made it, which is fun. Every year we meet up at Broadway Pizza in Minneapolis. And this year we proved that we met in all sorts of weather. The snow was really coming down, In fact I think we were all about 30 minutes late.
Filed under: St Paul
So Lily and I have taken on a new challenge. We are the neighborhood correspondents for the Twin Cities Daily Planet. That means we interview people in Mac Groveland for the online newspaper. We started with our neighbor Pete Greenheck up at the Nativity Christmas Tree Lot. We’re still working on our second interview. Got an idea? Let us know!
Filed under: St Paul
At Nativity (the girls’ school) they don’t have an all-school Christmas pageant, which is kind of nice. Rather a couple of the grades have different events. The first grade did a reenactment of the of the Nativity. Aine was an angel – so that wasn’t too much of a stretch for her.
Filed under: St Paul
I’m back. I’m going to catch up the blog because we did something fun today and I want to post about it – but I can’t until we’re up to date. So we might be heavy on pictures for December.
We got a lot of now in December. This picture was taken after the 18 inch snowfall early in the month.
Filed under: Minneapolis
There was a great Groupon on the multi-people bikes at Minnehaha – so we went. I kind of forgot that I don’t really like bikes when I went for this – but I was quickly reminded once we got going. It’s hard to pedal a bike with 5 people on it – and Patrick’s a good biker. But it was beautiful day. And there was a fun historical recreation at one of the houses around Minnehaha. OK, recreation might be over stating it – but the girls got to play some old fashioned games. The Historical Society does a great job on stuff like that.
For folks who don’t know Minneapolis, here’s a quick description…
Overlooking the Mississippi River, Minnehaha Park is one of Minneapolis’ oldest and most popular parks, attracting over 850,000 thousand visitors annually. It is located at the intersection of Hiawatha Ave. and Minnehaha Parkway.
Filed under: Minnesota
The last weekend of September we went to Sever’s Corm Maze – an annual trip for us. The weather was perfect – almost too hot. We had a great time! Here are some of the highlights:
The girls and I went on camel rides
We went swimming in the pool of corn (and were pulling corn kernels out of ourselves for the next week)
We went through the corn maze. Kate rocked it! Aine also got the hang of it. Lily’s phone was helpful when we need to go back and find her and Patrick.
Saw a pig race
I’m always amazed at how much fun the corn maze is.
Filed under: St Paul
Patrick and I had a great dinner at Luci Ancora – our favorite Italian restaurant. They had a wine dinner with St Innocent, Patrick’s favorite winery. We go to the wine dinners often – usually we sit by ourselves. This time they sat us with a few other folks. So that was different – Patrick was not so thrilled at first – but after a glass of wine, or two it was kind of fun!
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Once again the girls and I went with Grandpa to Nelson’s Farm and Pumpkin Patch in Litchfield Minnesota. Grandpa and I were surprised at how many of the small details the girls remember from year to year. Including being able to pick out every restaurant where we’ve ever stopped. And restaurants in the area are not always so different from each other – at least from the outside.
Some highlights (not necessarily mine) were
- picking up the baby chicks
- holding the bunnies (which sadly replaced the kittens
- riding the soapbox cars down the hill (always fun!)
- big hayride
- little hayride
- Pumpkin trebuchet – I love that – video below
It’s fun to see the trebuchet and kind of amazing how it works – both the mechanics and the success. Like last weekend, we had perfect weather. It was cooler – but sweater weather – and super sunny. Last year when we went we were wearing hats and mittens.
On the way home we stopped (as always) in Darwin to see the World’s Largest Ball of Twine, the playground and we drove by the cemetery where my Grandma & Grandpa Treacy are buried.
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The Lynches came into town for the Minnesota State Fair. So we all went together (us, Lynches, Grandma & Grandpa). We had our scavenger hunt – which I posted earlier. We had a great time. I’ll have to post our annual Education Calendar when we get it. They are always great about letting all 13 of us pose in the picture.
We had a ton of good food – the potato chip tornado was a new purchase that I would make again. Some of us milked a cow – namely me, Kate, Katie and Aine. In other words the toughest of the group. Some folks went on the Sky Ride (not me!). Aine won a big ball in the arcade, she was the big winner. We saw the largest pig and largest pumpkin. We walked and walked. The weather was absolutely perfect!
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Since we were out of town for my birthday, we celebrated in August at the final Saints game of the season. It was great. I think I had about 70 tickets to the game – and they were all used. As always my favorite part was the tailgating before. But the game was good too. It did go into 11 innings, which we didn’t love because we were a little tired. We did love the fireworks after the game. The fireworks feel so close there and it’s a great display. I’m hoping that I can celebrate my birthday a little earlier next eyar – but a second tradition might be making the final game of the season – especially if they keep up the fireworks
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