Traveling Lily and her Ancestors

Miss Lillianna has sure been enjoying some traveling lately. We drove up to Pequot Lakes (where Joy's mom's family is originally from) for Memorial weekend to meet Joy's family and put flowers on the family graves. A few pictures (pardon the hair, it was VERY windy that day):

We also saw an old cabin on "Shawano Point" in Pequot. It's an amazing old cabin - Joy's great-grandfather did all the rockwork in the walls, steps and foundation of the cabin. He did a lot of rockwork in the Pequot area. We believe he may also have built the cabin as he was contractor on a lot of log buildings in the area.

The very next day we drove to a small town in Southern Minnesota called Stanton. We had done some genealogical research and discovered that many of Tom's ancestors were from Minnesota and are buried here. We found Stanton (a very, very small town) and amazingly after walking through the small town cemetery, we found the headstone of Tom's great-great-great-great-grandfather, Shedrick Crump. Wow!! It was really amazing!



And of course we celebrated Father's Day - Tommy's first Father's Day!!! We drove up to Duluth to spend the afternoon with Joy's family.

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO GRANDPA ARCHIBALD, GRANDPA ENGELKE and GRANDPA LAMOLLI!! Love, Lillianna

Look at me wearing Uncle Ryan's hat in the Duluth Mall on Father's Day

Daddy and Me

Of course, what would a blog post be without more pictures of Lillianna Mae? She's growing by leaps and bounds these days. Just today we discovered she has a second tooth! She is very close to crawling - it won't be long now! She can get up on her arms or pull up her knees and stick her butt in the air, but she hasn't quite figured out how to do both at the same time so she can actually move forward. We're sure she will have this figured out very soon, though!

Today the three of us hit the garage sales in our area. I think there was a sale on every street! Of course Miss Lily came home with more clothes, books, movies and toys - and Tom found some photography goodies. This is Mommy and Lily checking out a stuffed puppy dog for Miss Lily - of course the puppy came home with us!