Carving our Jack-O-Lantern

Todd & I carved our Jack-o-lantern on Wednesday night. Last weekend, we bought our 29 lb. pumpkin at a farm in Ramsey, MN. We are going to bring it over to Mom's house tonight to light it up for the trick-or-treaters that come to her house since we are going there for dinner.

Who is this handsome man in front of our house? :)

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Have a happy & safe Halloween! :)

Happy Maddie! :)

Maddie sent us this picture in an e-mail ;) that said, "Hi Aunt Nana & Uncle Todd!"

She is almost 6 months old already! :)

Aamodt's Apple Orchard--Ocober 11, 2008

On Saturday, we went to Aamodt's Apple Orchard with our friends, The Thompsons. (minus Andra, who had to work, plus a son-in-law & a boyfriend). :) It was a beautiful day & we had a great time. Janelle is in Ecuador so Keith brought a picture of her in his back pocket so she could "enjoy the day" with us. Obviously not the same, but it was fun to include her in anyway we could. :)

Todd, Sonja, Noel, Theresa, Keith, Claudette & Curt.

Claudette & Curt.

Keith, Leah, Theresa, Noel & Micah.

Keith, "Janelle", Sonja & Todd.

Sonja & Todd.

Claudett & Curt.

Claudette & Sonja.


Keith took this one of "Janelle picking an apple". :)

The Christmas Window 2009.....practices have begun............

Todd & I are participating in The Christmas Window production at our church again this year. Todd is going to be one of the wisemen and is the understudy for Grandpa Henry. I will be the coffe shop owner & the understudy for Grandma Ida. We are also both in the choir again this year. Our big shock this year is that we auditioned for the 1800's Partner Dance & we made it! :) We were very surprised because neither of us has any dance experience. We had to learn the steps at the auditions & didn't think we had done very well, so we were sure we wouldn't make it. To our astonishment (& amusement) we were on the list of dancers the next Sunday! We were told that we were a joy to watch and looked like we were really having fun...............must have been because we were laughing at ourselves so much. :)

Mom is also in the choir this year & the Chorale that she is a part of will be singing one of the songs, too.

If you would like to see The Christmas Window (& see if Todd & I can really learn this dance), you can get tickets at http://www.nhlc.org/ . Click on Tickets/Events & look for The Christmas Window.

Hope to see you there! :)

Tyler & Maddie's Dedication~~October 5, 2008

Justin, J.D., Brenden, Kim, Maddie, Jeremy & Tyler

Justin & Maddie



Tyler & Maddie's dedication was on Sunday so we attended their church & then went to their house for lunch. It was a really good service and a fun afternoon. :)

Jude & Estella Williams' 3rd Birthday Party

Todd & I were honored to be chosen by Jude & Estella, themselves, to attend their 3rd birthday party on Saturday. They are the twins of our friends, Mark & Leah Williams. There was a lot of excitement and we had a really fun time! :)

Jude & the Backyardigans cake.

Blowing out their candles.

Estella savoring her taste of frozen yogurt. :)

Jude & Estella opening gifts.

Jude playing with the ribbon. :)
Estella & Jude playing with their new toy food.

Nicholas & Evan's "Camp-In"

Evan spent the weekend at our house and Nicholas slept over on Friday night. We set up a tent in the playroom and they slept in the tent. They thought it was great! :)


Nicholas also lost his 2nd tooth in the morning, so he had a really nice gap to sport with Uncle Todd's crazy glasses. :)

Tyler Spends the Night at Uncle Todd & Aunt Nana's House

Tyler spent Monday night at our house while the rest of his family went to Rochester for Kim's Grandma's funeral. I took Monday afternoon off & then Todd took Tuesday off to spend time with him. With 3 big brothers & a baby sister, Tyler seemed to really relish his "alone time" Nana & Uncle Todd. :)


Todd is teaching Tyler early how to treat the ladies. :) They brought me flowers at work.............







.................and took me to lunch. :)

At home, we read books.................

..........."big truck, Nana..........big truck".............

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..............and played with the bouncing Tigger.

Bounce............bounce.............bounce................ :)

Emily is 7 Years Old!

Emily's 7th birthday was Wednesday, Sept. 24th. Todd met Jamie, TeeJay, Sophia & Emily at Dave & Buster's Wed. night. I had worship team practice at church until 8:30 pm so I met them there later & then we went to Boston's for dinner. Mmmmmmm..............very good food! :)

Sophia with just one of the long strings of ticket that she won playing games.

Emily playing one of the games.

Emily proving that the nieces are just as goofy as the nephews. :) She has ice cream on her nose from her rootbeer float.

Sophia & Emily.

Happy Birthday X 4!! :)

We had a combined birthday party for Tiffany (18), Nicholas (7), Brenden (6) & Tyler (2) on Saturday, Sept. 20th. We met at Chuck E. Cheese for pizza, cake & games. Then we went to Leonard & Denise's house where the kids did a pinata (guitar shaped) and opened their presents.

Justin, Brenden, J.D., Tyler, Nicholas & Evan.

Nicholas & Brenden.

J.D. & Tyler blowing out his candle.

The birthday kids each got a medal. Tyler was showing me his medal.


Brenden.

Tyler enjoyed his cake! :)

I took Tyler around to play games & ride rides. He had a blast & we actually got 206 tickets, so we did pretty good. :)

Brenden, Justin, Evan, J.D., Tyler & Nicholas waiting to hit the pinata.

Tyler hitting the pinata.

Brenden hitting the pinata.

Tiffany (with Maddie's help) opening her gift. Can't believe Tiff is 18!!

Nicholas opening his gift with great enthusiasm. :)

Tyler opening his gift with J.D. & Jeremy's help.......he was getting pretty tired.

Tyler............all tuckered out...........with Aunt Nana. :)