Rants, Recipes, and Running

I have finally reached the final post of our Minnesota trip! It only took me a week to complete this . I'm not so good at blogging consistently. I've broke these posts into 3 categories: Anniversary, Family Time, and finally "Happenings". Instead of writing a book of all the fun we had, I am going with a bullet-point approach. It's Friday. Brain is fried and attention span is not so fantastic. Here are a few of my favorite things of the trip: Waking up every single morning to views of the lake. Does it get better than this?!: Morning runs. Most days I did a 5 mile route that goes on a road behind the lake, and then another road through corn fields. After being stuck in the desert for the past 6 years....seeing all that green was rejuvenating. Lots of coffee enjoyed while looking at the lake..... One morning Ryan & I headed to Glendalough State Park. If you're ever in Ottertail County - I highly recommend checking this out! There's a ...

The utmost highlight of this trip was family. And I'm not just saying that because the only people that probably really read this blog are my family. ;) I mean this with the utmost honesty. I have to say we were quite successful in seeing as many family members we could possible squeeze in during our short time home. All 5 of my siblings were at the lakes for the weekend. Plus spouses. Plus their children. Which makes a happy bunch of 18!!!!! My mom hired a photographer to come out and take photos. And although photos can make us groan in agony ( especially the men ) - I am so glad she did this. It's not very often we got that many people in one place at one time! Saturday my Mom invited her siblings to her house for a get-together. She came from a family of 8 children, so as you can imagine - that can make for a large group! We had a grand total of 36 people at that gathering, and it was awesome. Most of that side of the family Ryan and I haven't seen since our wed...