MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE!!!!
WISHING A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL.
DAN AND MAURI

Merry Christmas

The weather outside may be frightful.....

but the Pulla.....

and other "goodies" are delightful....

From our home....

to yours, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year!

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas!! Enjoy the holidays.
Happy New Year too!
Paul and Kendra

Happy B-day Caitlyn you are daddy's little angel P.L.

More land....

Shawn and I signed a purchase agreement to buy "Julie's" land next door. So, we will have an additional 32 acres attached to ours. She has 30 days to remove her belongings and then we will be closing on the house on or around January 15th. I'm very excited. We will have more pasture land and need to get more goats - Shawn says cattle - or sheep. We may end up putting a new sewer in and building a house of some sort to rent out - We will see. The possibilities will be endless - once we really do own it. The current owner said that she already considers it ours but we have to wait for Julie to move her stuff out.

HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY!

Hi,

Mauri and I had a great time in Arizona with Paul, Kendra and family. The light show was alot of fun for everyone. The kids are so much fun, even though they like Aunt Mauri better than thier Uncle Dan. Oh well. We also visited with Mauri's parents and her Grandmother, who live there year-round. It was cold most days, and rainy, but better than the weather we left. Happy Holidays to all and to all a good night.
Dan

We went to Glendale Glitters Sat. night with Dan and Mauri, lots of fun for all. 1,000,000 lights, snacks and games, plus, old Glendale main street antique shops are all open until 10 p.m. P.L.

Finally feeling like Christmas!

We have finally began slowly putting up decorations. Our house has been a mess the last few weeks, from putting up our bedroom wall again. So now that the living room was finished getting painted I put up our few decorations. Emalee picked out that Santa from Frys and the snowman drew picked out from target. Caitlyn will not leave the little bells on the tree and it is a fight to keep them from the other kids as well!

A few pictures from over the summer. The 1st one is the kids watching me snorkel, then Caitlyn, she walks now. The kids 4-wheeler and jeep. P.L.

Happy Thanksgiving

Wishing each and everyone of you a wonderful Thanksgiving. May you find plenty to be thankful for this holiday season...

Heather and Shawn

What is everyone doing for Christmas? You are all welcome to come here, it would be a Xmas to remember as the saying goes. Plan on it in fact for Xmas 2008, we'll go on a hayride in the desert before a scrumptious meal of javelina, turducken, and ham with potatoes. P.L P.S. everything well done of course.

My moose

The other Saturday, Shawn came running in the house and said there was a moose. Here is our moose which was named: "Honk, the moose". The fence posts are the end of our land and she was coming out toward Julie's house. Anyway, she turned around and went back in the woods. We had some kids up hunting and one of them said that he saw the moose in our woods. I'm hoping she stays around, but will most likely move on....

Heather

October Camping

This is our camping trip, sort of cold, about 55 for a high. This is on the Mogollon Rim, in Bear Canyon area, the back side is primitive camping. We took a stick thru the trailer tire on the way in, but this is to be expected when four wheeling . Saw some mule deer and assorted small wildlife which Tinker scared off. Our next camping trip will hopefully be to Karchner Caverns outside of Tucson AZ, this winter. Our combined rig is 43 feet long, but flexible, so I can get it most anywhere. Oh yeah, showering feels great when camping, .....rootbeer floats are nice to!!!!!! P.L.

SECOND NEWS FLASH

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LOVE, DAN AND MAURI

NEWS FLASH!!!!!!!

HI TO EVERYONE. CONGRATS ON THE NEW LITTLE ONE ON THE WAY, PAUL AND KENDRA. YOUR CAMPING TRIP IN THE HILLS LOOKED LIKE A NICE SPOT. NOW YOU KNOW HOW MANY YOU CAN FIT IN YOUR CAMPER. OUR TRIP TO DULUTH WAS OK, SOME RAIN AND WAS COOLER. STAYED AT SPIRIT MOUNTAIN CAMPGROUND. SAW JAY AND SARA AND FRIENDS. WE WENT TO GOOSEBERRY FALLS AND THE GLENSHEEN MANSION. BOTH WERE NEAT TO SEE.





DEER WAS IN CAMPGROUND EATING

Baby News...

Well I went to the doctor today, I am 10 weeks pregnant! So me and Paul will be having baby number 4 around May 4th, 2008! Everything is going good so far besides the all day nausia(sp?) I didnt get an ultrasound yet as the Dr doesnt do them until 18-20 weeks.
Well thats whats new around here.
kendra

Bridal Shower

Attended a bridal shower for Kristie Arola. She is getting married in Colorado on October 20th.

A lot of fun, a lot of laughs!
Heather

Camping

Dan and Mauri,
How did the camper work over the weekend? Heard rumor that you were camping by Duluth.
Heather

Camping

This past weekend we went camping with our trailer and it was super nice! The weekend was fun, but it poured buckets all night saturday night! It sprinkled off and on saturday but we figured it would quit. but it never did it just got harder as the night went on. So needless to say we had 13 people sleeping in our trailer. Quite the experience for us. Now paul says we are ready for any condition! It poured, super windy and even had some hail!! So we left right away sunday morning, packed up in the rain, and headed home. It is supposed to only be be a 3 1/2 hour drive, but the main highway off the rim back to town was completely shut down because a tanker exploded, so we went a round about way to the other main freeway and that was completely backed up because a fatality. So we moved about a mile every half hour!! So that drive turned into an 8 hour trip!! oh well we had fun anyways even with bad weather and bad traffic!
thats it for now
kendra

Life at our house

Sorry that I haven't posted in a while. Life here has been busy.

Shawn is busy with work. He puts in a day at one job site, comes home for 10 minutes and off to the next job site until 9PM or later. It's busy trying to get all the jobs he has to do done.
Over Labor Day weekend, I went to Seattle - Shawn stayed home and worked. My nephew Eric got married. I was able to see some sights and am anxious to get back there again. I got in Thursday night, the wedding was Friday night and left early Monday AM. Did a lot in the short amount of time we were there.

Got to see the water:

Took the ferry to Whidby Island - it's gorgeous!

Went to Deception Pass in order to try conquer my fear of heights. Didn't work, but it was awesome!

the newlyweds: Eric and Rosella

I have been busy with the volunteering stuff I've been doing for Horizons and the Kaleva Ladies. At night, I obsess about coyotes. We had a coyote get one of my baby goats (born the beginning of August) and one of our geese. I'm obsessed with trying to find it again to shoot it. Haven't been able to yet. It is rainy or foggy every night. I know it will be back again :(

Did a day trip down to the cities last Sunday for Eric and Rosie's MN reception. Didn't get to visit anyone as it was strictly there and back. I have to head down to Farmington next weekend for Missi's bridal shower - Ivan's fiancee. Then October 13th, we will be down in the cities for the weekend - my brother Ivan gets married on Saturday and there will be a 70th birthday party for my dad on Sunday. Hope to see some of you as well.

We have a new tenant at our house - my niece Denise moved in. She is going to school in Duluth for dental assistant. She is also working, but mostly days so she is home most evenings. It's interesting trying to get used to having someone live with us again. She is a lot of fun!

That's it from our "neck of the woods".

Heather

Helloooooo!!!!!

Does anybody look at this anymore???? I got the password and all and now nobody puts any news on here. Just to let you know, Mauri is fine, Dan is fine, Jay is fine, and Jim is fine. The cats are also fine. We went to Mark and Pam's cabin last weekend and went 4 wheelin', which is fun, but my old body gets mighty sore from riding. Hope everybody is ok.

Love to all,
Dan and Mauri

Hi Everyone

Randy came over today and showed Mauri and Dan how to get on this blog site. Maybe we will remember to look at it once in awhile, and see what's going on. Hope all is well with everyone. See Ya. Dan and Mauri

Happy Birthday Heather! hope your having a good birthday
Paul and Kendra

....................................... caitlyn, 8 months
........................................... Emalee, 3
............................................. Drew,2

Mark, I think there is a way in internet tools/options that you can change the cookie setting to allow cookies for certain sites. You should try to figure it out so we can hear from you guys! It was fun having Katie here for the week, and the kids just loved her! I told her she can come back anytime!
Heather have fun in seattle!
well kids are hollering so gotta go!
kendra
Here is some pictures I took of the kids, trying out my new lights. Still need a little working on to get the settings right!

Aunt Milli

Just an FYI, heard yesterday that Milli died Sunday morning. Not sure how old she was 93, 94, 95 something like that. I will put more when I hear where and when the funeral is.

Heather

Arola Reunion

Here are some photos from the Arola reunion in July:

Kenny and Ellen

Rolene and Ray

Judy and Alice

Sylvia - it's so cute to see her in her hats. Has she always worn them?

Rolene with her grandaughter Gracie (?)

Happy Birthay Kendra

Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear Kendra,
Happy Birthday to you.

Hope you have a wonderful birthday!
Heather and Shawn

here is our new blog. Hopefully everyone finds out the passwords and starts blogging! here is a picture of our family on the rim this past weekend. thanks katie for taking it for us!