Fifty years !


The day after Christmas was my parents 50th wedding anniversary. We held a surprise dinner for them at a German restaurant in Duluth. All 3 daughters, 8 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren were there. My nephew, Tyler and his girlfriend Rebecca sand the song Remember When at the dinner. It is below..be sure to listen to the whole song they sound really really good even though the video is not that great..and it took me 5 hours to upload.


So here is Mom and Dad or Arlene and Mike
on Christmas night the night before their wedding way back 1958.
He was 19 and she was 18.

...And 50 years later, December 26th 2008.

ok..... so I am thinking we should cut back on DS usage.

12 days the '08 version

On My 12 Days of Christmas I got to see......



12 dinosaurs

11 dancing girls

10 days without internet

9 lizards on the ceiling (pre Christmas boredom)

8 photo ops

7 rolls of Santa wrap

6 nieces & nephews

5 manger stars

4 cookies for Santa

3 Christmas shows

2 evil green eyes

and one really cute fake smile.......

I hope every one had a Merry Christmas and has a Happy and SAFE New Year!!

now I need a vacation.......

Halloween.....

The three originals... Smokey will not be participating for Halloween photos..ever.

Look at Calvin, such a good boy, wears his costume with smile.



Casting a spell...

he's a frog....

I'll get you my pretties!!

the mummy !

John's Pumpkin

The Monday before Halloween John had to take a pocket knife to the den meeting with him to earn his whittling chip. Carving things with a knife is not my area so I stayed home and Marc took him. I was so nervous.....I try to avoid the ER as much as possible.

I was expecting him to bring home something carved from a piece of wood or a bar of soap and a cut finger or two. I was pleasantly surprised when they brought home this cute pumpkin!!

What does one do at the crack of dawn on their 5th birthday??

Feed their new cats in their monkey slippers of coarse.

on this election eve.....

Out of the mouths of election'08 babes.


just today

anna ( future liberal- I think) in the car: "ya know John, Barak Obama has the donkeys
and John McCain has the Elephants."

me: "So which one do you like?"

anna: " John McCain"

me: "because of the elephants?"

anna: "yes"

She loves elephants.


last week

john: " I heard at school that if McCain wins he will close down Six Flags."