March madness.

Every March we spend a weekend at Grand View Lodge in Nisswa, Minnesota with Nate's family. We've got a truckload of March birthdays on that side of our family — my brothers-in-law Jon and Kris were born the 3rd, Nate's birthday is the 9th, and mine is the 11th. Since no one wants to get together for birthday dinners that many times in one month, Nate's parents kindly began the tradition of hosting all of us for a birthday weekend up north.

March madness used to be an apt description of our weekend — years ago there were late-night snowball fights, very competitive games of pool and Mario Kart, and some pretty out-of-control rounds of Balderdash. But, with age comes wisdom (and children) and the weekend has become significantly tamer. The craziest thing we did this year was play Apples to Apples and eat too much at the breakfast buffet. Although we did stay up late enough to see the first 20 minutes of Saturday Night Live, which is an improvement over my regular weekends...

It may not be the raucous time it once was, but it's still a wonderful, fun, relaxing weekend away with people we love. Most of whom you won't see in the following pictures, because my camera seems to be permanently focused on Calvin.