Wedding weekend in Minnesota

Our friends Jason Ulmer and Kara Fuhrman were getting married this weekend and we joined to celebrate - in Minnesota!

Mid-day Friday we departed for our road-trip weekend out of town. We stayed with friends on Friday night in Fargo and left Saturday morning for the Detroit Lakes area.

The wedding was at the Fair Hills Resort. In one word: awesome! We are already making plans for our next trip.


Technically, this is their off season but we didn't know if by the weather - 90°F and sunny.
We had the beach to ourselves. Can't complain.


Corey and Kya enjoyed a relaxing float.


Then Kya got the tube to herself. I think she fell asleep.


I brought Kya's sunscreen but I didn't bring any for Corey or I. It was so HOT and so BRIGHT that I forked over half a fortune $12 for resort-priced sunscreen. Small price to pay for our day of fun and no sunburns.


Kya dug with such intensity. /It was fun watching her work.


She likes lake country.


The resort beach. All non-motorized equipment is free for guests to use (floats, life jackets, beach toys, kayaks, canoes, water bikes, volleyball, swimming pool, shuffleboard, etc).


The groom and a groomsman peddled up on water bikes.

Kya was taking a beak from 'digging to China' to chat with Grandma Andrea on the phone

90°F mid-September in Minnesota? yes please!
This is Corey in case you can't tell.


We have a beach bum.




She is a pool bum too.


We clean up pretty good, eh?


Some pre-ceremony shuffleboard.


Just hanging out looking cute.


This perfectly explains our weekend of chasing after Kya as she explored her world. Run run run.


This resort is seriously awesome.


Oh and they had a bonfire too.


This was our cabin. Kya slept in 68A and Corey and I slept in 68 (adjoining rooms).


Kya's room at the resort. Simple but clean and comfortable. Our room had one queen bed and full kitchen. Both rooms had full bathrooms. And the best part? Excellent food and not a TV in sight. Heaven.

The traveling toddler was a road warrior! Not a peep the whole way there, or returning.

Hager Family Twins Trip 2010

Written by Kya

On Friday my parents took me for a very long car ride. I was strapped in this seat for eight hours. Mom, Dad and Maria were in our car and we had lots of fun playing and making funny faces at each other. Every few hours we'd stop and eat (all of us) and then we'd keep 0n driving.

We took an exit and drove into a land of big sparkly buildings. I liked looking at them very much.

My home for the next two nights was the Graves 601 hotel in downtown Minneapolis, MN. Mom and dad say is was one of the nicest hotels they have ever stayed in. I have to agree (but since this was my first hotel stay, I don't have much to compare it to).

The hotel let me stay in this neat (and very safe and clean) little crib and gave me some squeaky bath ducks to play with and take home.

I was very excited to get out of my car seat. Finally. Look at our view! The Target Center was right next door (grass roof) and the Twin's stadium - Target Field - was right next to that (you can see the upper level).

Friday evening we went to my first Twins Game. We went to another game at noon on Saturday.

The stadium is brand new and very pretty.

Everyone was so happy and I think they had fun.

I had lots of grass to look at.

The place really has everything - even a clean conference room for me and mom to go when I got hungry or needed a diaper change. Mom says it is at the Guest Services counter - just ask there and they will take you back to the room.

Oooh look pretty lights too. I made lots of new friends along the way. So many people to smile at.

This is my Aunt Maria. She's cool.

That's my head. I'm quite bald. Oh and Maria and Mom and Grandpa Gary.

I met up with my buddy Cole at the game. We were both first-timers. It was his 1st birthday. Cole's mom is Kristan - a good friend of my moms (they were bridesmaids in each other's weddings).

I got to hang out in this Ergo Baby Carrier for a few days. I had so much fun looking around, sleeping, eating, and hanging out in it.

Saturday afternoon, Grandma Andrea, Mom, Maria and I went shopping. Dad, Matthew and Grandpa Gary went for a little bus ride adventure to the Minnesota Gopher's stadium.

Matthew watched the game through the gates. The ticket office was already closed and they couldn't get in.

Those stinkers snuck past security after half time and got into the game!

And I'm pretty impressed with their free view.


Oh, and Matthew made a new friend too. This is Matt Capps. He throws the ball for the Twin's team. He stayed at the same hotel as us. We saw him many times.

On Sunday morning we went to church and then started for home.

Here I am in my red seat. Yet again.

This is my new toy. I played with it the whole way home. Even in my sleep. Good buy mom.

We had a finny face contest. I won. Mom thinks I might be getting teeth - I made some pretty strange mouth expressions and started rubbing my gums together, side to side.

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Well that concludes the photo tour. Corey and I took some photos (most of these were Corey's), but not nearly as many as we usually take. I guess we were too busy keeping track of little miss Kya :)

I will try to get copies of other folk's photos and will post them soon.

Oh - and I heard that Mandan/Bismarck got snow while we were in Minneapolis?! Yikes! Are we ready for winter yet?