Swim it up and love it up

We were thrilled to hear that Mike, Michelle, and Gabby made plans to come up to Fargo, yet again, this month. Mike's son, Ryan, started school at NDSU this week so they came up for his farewell party.

Meanwhile, we had a party of our own at the hotel, motel, Holiday Inn.

Skunny scared the children, as usual. Swamp-thing or Loch Ness, not sure.


In this series of photos, you can see how much love Gabby has to give. And how much Gus hesitates receiving this gift of love. I should also say that Michelle and I always start it. It is our fault. We are kinda lunatic moms who set our kids down by each other, and constantly try to get our dear tots to hug or 'Gus, give Gabs a kiss...for the camera..'...come on, sit by Gabs', and so-on and so-forth.

Gabby ALWAYS goes for it but Gus is too old for our crazy suggestions. And FOR SURE he's not going to give into our requests when there is a camera involved. But we try, and will keep trying until they are teens I'm sure.

Gus thought about giving a brief hug.

When he got close enough, Gabby pounced. Really pounced.

OK, take 2. On the way out the door, we tried again (as I explained earlier, apparently it is Michelle and I's motherly mission to get them to hug).

And so we failed. But the photo below is priceless. It is a perfect illustration of how the night ended up after all our efforts to get that huggin pic. Gabby - still full of love, Gus - calling for a ride outta there.


I'm already contemplating our next photo shoot with the kids. It's only 2 weeks away, we are pumped!