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Monday, April 1, 2024

Easter 2024

How was your Easter weekend?
Ours was fun, with lots of activities.

Our Twin Cities family came down Friday night and spent two nights with us.
Saturday morning Jenny colored eggs with the kids
Reminds me of when their daddy was this little 
coloring eggs at this same counter with his siblings.

I had an egg hunt for all 4 of the grandkids Saturday evening.
 Our littlest is jumping up to retrieve the one on top of the wooden swing, while Uncle gavin looks on
They each got to find 6 eggs. Uncle Gavin did the hiding.
Getting her stash
Still a little snow left on the north side of the house. 
Love these little egg hunters

3 out of the 4 helped finish the "Peep Cake" for Easter dessert

Sunday morning we attended my daughters church for Easter service, 
then headed out to my Brothers house
There was a little petting zoo at outside for the kids to enjoy, 
all of our grands love animals so this was a hit

My Brother and (sil) hosted this year, if you remember from older posts, this is the house I grew up in. 
My mom now lives in an apartment. A lot has changed but it feels right to be there.
Mom hanging out with #2 grand son (My boy Brice).

 
Daughter-in-love Jenny going thru the line
This is where the food is at
My Brother Rick and son Brice
Yay, the "Peep cake"

24 of us attended Easter lunch this year, we were missing 2 families.
There my girl in the middle.

Outdoor play, Gavin is always a hit with the littles
Football
My Loves <3
The oldest brother (on the left) is always on his toes in photos, trying to be taller that his little bother. 
Gavin has about an inch on Brice.

The March Birthdays, Gavin, my brothers wife Cindy and Nephew Jamey

The weather was perfect for outside fun
Uncle Chris vying for the ball.

The food was great the company better, but the best thing of all....


 Happy Easter to all.



Sunday, November 25, 2018

Obvious thankfulness

The rest of my Thankful(s)....
Thanksgiving morning I posted about the not-so-obvious things I'm thankful for, so after a weekend of family and celebration I thought I'd share some of the photo's of more blessings. 
If you missed my 1st post the link for that is below.

I'm so thankful for my family. 

I do the Turkey and mashed potatoes the day before, especially with a large group.
Thats what crock pots are for, right?

The main table
We had 15 family members this year.

It isn't Thanksgiving without some pie eating.
Our Carson is loving himself some pumpkin pie.

My Birthday fell on the day after Thanksgiving this year 
so we all went our for a birthday dinner Friday night.
Our son Brice and his family came and stayed with us until Saturday afternoon.
the cousins were able to have some quality playtime over the weekend.

My 2 sweet grand girls

All 4 of them  <3 p="">

 Saturday morning, this guy LOVES his ahh-pa (grandpa)

 Lew was "helping" me make scrambled eggs.

It's always so quite when the kids leave, too quiet!
 We sit and relax and reminisce about out grandkids and kids!
We are thankful for our 3 grown children out son-in-love and Daughter-in-love, 
and those beautiful amazing grandkids...... That's just obvious thankfulness.

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

We got our fix... family, celebration and grandkids

It was fun to have a little surprise birthday celebration for our Gavin on Saturday night. 
All the kids and grandkids were here which is the best thing ever in my book!!!

We met at Red Lobster... Gavin's favorite (Gavin Left center)

We came back to the house for the traditional singing of the 
Happy Birthday song and cake!

All who can, come and gather once a year at Red Lobster for Gavin's birthday.
The little girl cousins wanted to sit next to each other.

Grandpa and his grand boys.

Winding the night down, watching Mickey Mouse with Grandpa before the 
Rochester kids head home for the night

My best attempt at trying to get an updated family photo with camera on a tripod and set on a timer. Guess who's not looking at the camera.... Guess who know's better?
I was feeling so bad for Lewin, he was not to thrilled to stop playing and have a photo done.

 ...fast forward to the next day

Lewin is modeling a 3rd generation outfit that my husband wore as a little boy.
It was passed on to our boys from my Mother in law and now I'm passing it on to Lewin.  
The fabric is so soft from 50+ years of washing. 
The clothing line is called "Buster Brown"...any one remember???
I brought out a bag of shirts and shorts that I had saved.
 I think Its so cool that his daddy, uncle Gavin and grandpa all wore this outfit  

 Running off a little energy before this sweet one gets in the car for the trip back home.
What I thought was gonna be a walk became a full out run..."catch me Grandma".

 My Grandbabies remind me everyday just how blessed we are. 
They are all so close in proximity that we can really see them often, especially when we are needing that "fix"....you grandma's out their know what I mean  :)

Monday, October 5, 2015

Home again...we had an amazing week

 We were able to enjoy our kids and grands at the Cabin this week.
 We had a great time, but it always goes too fast. 

Thought I would just share a few photo's to touch on some of our highlights.
 Love my family
 (just missing our son-in-love Chris) 

Hanging out on the beach!
It was a little cool this weekend, but it didn't stop us from getting out for 
awhile to enjoy the sunshine. 

Carson loves Grandpa's "blue boat"

It was fun watching the cousins play and be silly together. 

Scarlett's first time on Pine Haven 
(our favorite church camp, just down the shore from our cabin)

My boys 
 We celebrated the October birthdays! 
Brice, Jennifer and Rick

 My daughter and her dad...just talkin'
(Carson snuggling on mama's lap)

 The road to our cabin
The colors are beautiful!

 Brice caught a big sunny off the end of the dock, 
Scarlett's amazed at her daddy's skills!

Jenny trying her luck at fishing  :)

Coloring

Today our friend John helped pull the boat out of the lake,
then these two spent some time this morning taking the dock out of the water. 
(in their leaky hip-waders)
Good Job guys.... a job well done. 

Rick and I will return one more time this fall to close the cabin down. 
We feel like we have gotten plenty of time at our new cabin even though
 we've only owned it for about 3 weeks. 
Thanks for letting me share our joy over these last 3 weeks....we are blessed!