Mother's Day Flowers

Thank you for the beautiful flowers from my children and grandchildren. Happy mother's day to all of you moms. I hope you have a special day! -- Jan

Grandma's Birthday #2

We had to add some pictures of the park, well really of our dear grandchildren!

Grandma's Birthday

Today we celebrated all the April birthdays with Andy, Kristi, Connor, Carson and Kaelynn. Last night we went to the water park at the Canad Inn and had a good time in on the slides and playing in the water.

Grandpa's Birthday

We had a very nice evening with Grandma Ruth and all of the telephone calls and birthday greetings. Please check the dropbox for a video of the candle fire! Love Ya -- Grandpa

Turtle River State Park , Part 2

This is Part 2 of our Turtle River State Park journey. So look at the previous BLOG to get the background to this.
Kaelynn and Grandma are sitting at the top of the hill prior to their event!
Grandma was a good sport and took her solo run as Connor waits for her at the finish line.

But Grandma too has been watching the Olympics and this turn took her out of competition for the event. But she came back and took a podium position later in the day. She has been practicing all her life to be a Grandma and wasn't going to let one small spill keep her out of the big day!

Connor and Kaelynn were in the starting gate, ready to take on the hill!

This was the victory celebration at the bottom!

Turtle River State Park

It was a beautiful day in ND. Connor, Kaelynn, Grandma and Grandpa went to Turtle River State Park, which is about 20 miles west of Grand Forks. We missed Carson, as he was not able to come this weekend because he had a sore throat and running a temperature. We will go back another time when Carson can be with us too!

Connor found a walking stick to lead us on our journey through the woods. He was a great leader.
Kaelynn was also a great hiker as she walked through the snow with her stick.

After our hike we had hot chocolate and an outdoor picnic.

I think Kaelynn has been watching the Olympics!

Connor and Grandpa hiked up to the mountain top (Ok it isn't a mountain, but give us a break, this is ND!). It was Connor's idea and he led us up the mountain!
He looks like a determined young man!

This is the resort we were at, Arneson's at Rocky Point, north of Roosevelt, Minn.

This is the 25 inch northern I caught.

Andy was the chief cleaner! We ended up with some good meals to come.

Our house was nice and warm with some comfortable beds. It was definitely a "man cave".

We even had a stove to cook on. Andy was talking to Matt when I took this picture.