New Dog Park in Prior Lake

New Dog Park in Prior Lake

Todd Swank's Diary Entry for November 4, 2012

The Swank Family had a very mellow weekend.  Other than getting our riding lawnmower fixed, the highlight was going to the new Spring Lake Park Dog Park in Prior Lake which opened a couple of weeks ago.  We could hardly contain our excitement to get inside.

Ain't no Party like a Puppy Party 'cause a Puppy Party Don't Stop!

We're pretty impressed with the new dog park.  It's not quite as big as the other one, but it has a lot of wide open spaces which is nice.  Because Sunny loves to run!  He gets ahead of us and then turns around to look at us like "Are you guys coming or what?"

Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a Poop Fairy.  We're still required to pick it up on our own.  Miss Sheri doesn't seem to mind, though.  She likes to swat Luke over the head with it.

Afterwards we stopped at the gym so Luke could show us his Mad Skillz.  Then we went home.

We had so much fun at the new dog park, that we came back again on Sunday morning to show it to Avery.  After this picture, he told me that he can't wait until he grows up and is on his own so he doesn't have to stop and take pictures all the time.  So I figure I'd better take as many as I possibly can until that time happens!

The boy's robotics team reached a milestone this weekend when they were able to get their robot to run on it's own.  Now they just need to figure out how they're going to make this bad boy score and then they'll be in business!

Sunny says "Oh, by the way.  Happy Halloween!"

Halloween Party 2012

Halloween Party 2012

Todd Swank's Diary Entry for October 28, 2012

Luke and Avery are deep into working on building a robot for this year's middle school robotics program along with their teammates, Jackson and Thomas.  Progress is slow, but they're learning lots of good stuff along the way!

Monday night was the big game reveal at Prior Lake High School.  Apparently it's going to take a lot of balls to win this year's tournament!

On Saturday night, we went to a Halloween Party with our friends, Portia and Mike Vogt.  You'll never guess who we were supposed to be!

Miss Sheri thought she should try to be Mary Ann since she grew up on a farm.  We also discussed going as the Howells since we're so old.  In the end, though, I think she made a pretty good Ginger!

The party was a blast with all sorts of great costumes!

There were pirates there.

And Elves.

And nerds.

And even Hamsters!  Unfortunately, I'll never be able to recognize any of these people should I see them around Prior Lake.  But on one Saturday night in October, 2012, we were all pretty good little buddies!

The boys still don't know what they're going to be for Halloween this year, but Luke did find a box that just may work for him.  

Luke and Avery Go To Washington DC

This week, Luke and Avery went to Washington DC with their 8th grade class at Hidden Oaks Middle School in Prior Lake.   We dropped them off at the airport at 3:30am on Wednesday and picked them up at Midnight on Saturday night.  We traded some texts and some phone calls while they were there, but they didn't say much about their trip.  When they came home, they were so tired, they didn't talk about it much either.  I pulled off  about 300 photos from their iPods that proves to me they were there, but they still haven't said much of what they did.  So I'm just posting some of my favorites of their pictures, without saying anything about them.  Because your guess of what is happening or where they're at is just as good as mine is.