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!