Summer 2010

Hockey camps, kitchen remodel, soccer games & practices, R.J.'s first northern, a trip to the cabin and that's just what I took pictures of.

The kitchen is done!

We found the piece de resistance in an art gallery in Spooner it really ties it all together. We are very pleased with how it turned out and plan to replace the dishwasher some day. (i.e.: as soon as it breaks.)

My favorite part is all the storage. 2 of the toe kicks are drawers and the pantry now has slide out shelves, that we should have done years ago. Love it, love it, love it. Now we are never moving!

Progress in the kitchen

Kitchen Renovation

Before and during pictures.

Hockey Tournament

How we spent this past weekend.

November-getting caught up

Molly made her stage debut in the 4th grade play this fall. Picture #1 is with her classmates singing a song about MN. The play was titled the "Blizzard of AAhhs." It is based on the Wizard of Oz but is about MN history. Picture #2 is Molly as Governor Alexander Ramsay. She spoke her lines really well, loudly and clearly.

We have had some snow but not enough to make it beautiful. Going into the deep freeze now. The Christmas tree is up, has been for a week but no lights on it yet. Perhaps we'll get to it today in between hockey.

Fall 2009

We are trying to stay healthy here but R.J. seems to catch everything that goes around so I am home w/him for the second time this week. Since I baked cookies on Tuesday and I don't want to clean today I thought I'd blog a little.

The first pic is of R.J. & Molly's new favorite pastime-climbing trees, this one is in our back yard & the other one is from the one nice fall day that we've had. We went to the apple orchard by the cabin picked apples, explored the teepee and bought some pumpkins. Since fall is my favorite season of the year the early snowfall and lack of leaf color is a downer. On the up side, freshmen football season has ended so now Bob is home a bit more since he only has Varsity practices, games, etc.

Zeke may go hunting soon. Bob's brothers both hunt and are without dogs that can hunt at the moment so Zeke may get his chance. They went to the hunt club last weekend and he is not gun shy but he is still a puppy-more interested in playing with the other dogs than hunting.

Other news, Bob's dad is not having a good fall. We are averaging one hospital visit followed by transitional care per week. The doctors can find nothing wrong with him. It appears to be his nerves. Living alone is hard on him. He is scheduled to go back home this Sat. so we will see how it goes this time.

Our garage got broken into Tues. night. They stole R.J.'s bike. We were home at the time, garage was locked and everything. I'm looking forward to 2010-2009 really has not been a good year for us.