Author: M. Sullivan Photography

Here are some highlights from our long Thanksgiving weekend. 

Wednesday – Sean, Melissa & the kids arrive in Duluth and head to the hotel water park.  Sebastian eagerly accepts an invitation to join them for an evening of swimming, games and pizza. 

Thursday – Turkey Day!  No pictures of the ginormous turkey, but a couple of table shots before the adults sat down for dinner. 

Dinner was followed by a family football game, dessert and the Wii game Deal or No Deal. 

Friday – Skating and Bentleyville 

We rented ice time at the DECC and had the whole Arena to ourselves for a family skate.  We made the kids (and Tom) wear helmets, so that we could make it through the weekend without an emergency room visit.  The kids (and adults) had fun skating and hitting the puck around.  We even set up the goal and made some shots. 

After skating, we headed back to the house for hors d’oeurves and a birthday celebration for Tom.  

And since we didn’t have enough fun yet, we drove down to Bayfront Park to see the Bentleyville Tour of Lights.  It was opening night and we heard later that up to 10,000 people attended that night.  The lines were a bit too long for Santa, but we all enjoyed seeing the reindeer, Frosty  and Mrs. Frosty, eating cookies and marshmallows and drinking hot chocolate and coffee.  Of course, I can’t forget all of the spectacular lights. 

After Bentleyville, we went back home to thaw out.  Everyone was tired from a busy day, especially Ella and Daphne… 

Saturday – The Cities Sullivans head home.  Thanks for the great weekend!

We spent last weekend at my niece’s wedding in St. Cloud.  The weather was perfect (sunny and 63 degrees) and the wedding was absolutely beautiful.  Sophia was very excited about wearing her new dress.  Sebastian was not so excited about wearing dress pants, a white button down shirt and a tie.  I also made him get a haircut earlier in the week.  Let’s just say that I was not his favorite person last week.  I wish I would have taken photos of the wedding or even the reception site.  Kayla and Jason did an amazing job with planning every detail of their wedding day.  Since I am normally on the event planning side of weddings, it was nice just to sit back, relax and enjoy the evening.  I was also having a bit of camera/lens envy checking out the professional photographers that captured the whole event.  Luckily, Mike realized that I was looking at the cameras and lenses and not the two male photographers.

Here are a few photos I did take of Mike and the kids during the dance.

Sebastian and Sophia both had a great time enjoying the food, music and dancing.  They also loved staying overnight at a hotel with a sleep number bed and swimming in the hotel pool the next morning.  I think all of that made up for having to wear dress clothes to Sebastian.