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New! Farms, furry finds, and fungi are featured on our part 2 page of June and July 2016. |
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New! Wandering the woods and riding in a bike rodeo are some highlights of Part 1 or our June and July 2016 page. |
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We welcomed the end of school with many a wander. (Late-May to early June 2016) |
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We are wowed by creatures great and small during May 2016 |
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Shannon reflects on the spring of 2016. |
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We savor the simple pleasures over the mild winter of 2015-16. |
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We enjoy a seasonally warm November, see many wonderful creations at the zoo, and do some creating of our own as we finish off 2015. |
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We welcome Caleb back home and keep our head above the tide by leaning on love. |
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We beat the back-to-school-blues with many a frolic through the woods and end September with an out of this world experience. |
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We finish off July with the usual forest frolics, then do the county fair before meeting up with Caleb for our annual convention. |
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Caleb flies off to Bethel while the rest of us roam the Twin Cities. |
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We finish off May with lots of Legos, flowers, and frolics and start off June frantically filling our days with Caleb before he departs. |
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We avoid disaster twice and enjoy springtime's bounty. |
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We usher in spring with kite flying and rope swinging. Get blown away with our splashing good times. |
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March marched in warm and sunny. We returned to our usual hiking and s'mores park for some lollygagging. |
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We entered a strange world of foggy mists and green grass instead of the usual Minnesota snow and ice this winter of 2014-15. |
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We continue our journeys through the glorious fall 2014. |
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Our outdoor wandering becomes a Wednesday habit during September 2014. |
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We seize opportunities to be outdoors while summer fades into fall. |
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We go on a week vacation to a cabin in a national forest in August 2014. |
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We enjoy the lazy days of summer in 2014 including a trip to the fair. |
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We attend the Regional Convention of Jehovah's Witnesses in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |
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We celebrated our 20th anniversary with a trip to the Minnesota Zoo and the Mall of America |
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We have a delightfully boring (if not cold) winter of 2013-14. Caleb also finished school! |
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We go to the fair and visit a farm as school starts back up in the summer and fall of 2013 |
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We have some fun in the sun during the spring and early summer of 2013
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We have a boring winter in 2012-2013. Or was it?
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We get close to some storm chasers, frolic on the farm, and a get adopted by a furry new member of our clan.
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We finish of the summer of 2012 with a trip to Duluth and a frolic at the county fair.
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We end spring of 2012 with parties, water fun, and kick off summer with a mishap.
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Spring 2012 was marred with a horrible loss for our family. However, we endured and continue on.
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Winter 2011-12 had us all asking: where's the snow?
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We finish autumn with a trip to a farm and an apple orchard.
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We start of fall 2011 with a stroll through some gardens and a day at a state park.
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We topped of our summer with a revisit to Pimushe Resort in northern Minnesota.
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We had a summer of winners and one mishap during the summer of 2011.
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We get through the long cool spring of 2011 by taking a trip to another zoo (with tragic consequences!)and romping around Valleyfair.
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Our family grows by two feet! We also go snowshoeing and ape it up at the zoo.
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Our family visits two different farms this fall, as well as visiting the fire station, a park, and getting to hug Mickey Mouse!
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Our 2010 summer fun included a trip to the zoo, our annual convention, and a day at the fair.
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The kids, Shannon, and Grandpa head for the hills again for a week of South Dakota adventure in June of 2010.
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We spend our 14th anniversary as a family up in Duluth, and we visit Grandma Kaye at her new lakeside home.
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We had a blast over the winter of 2009-10
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All about the autumn of 2009
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We revisit Omaha and their zoo in the summer of 2009.
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The boys bonded this summer with another lake Superior fishing trip and a day at Valleyfair.
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We kick off the summer with farm fun, wild walkings, and an emergency!
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We explore nature around us and visit the Minnesota Zoo in the spring of 2009.
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Snow creations abound and we enjoy a romp around St. Paul during the 2008-09 winter.
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We enjoy the 2008 fall colors at a local park.
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We finish off late summer 2008 with many adventures!
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We all head up to Pimushe Resort by Bemidji, Minnesota, for a week of summertime fun.
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| The boys fish Lake Superior, and the girls have a big surprise for you! Both in the summer of 2008.
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| We celebrate our 14th anniversary in St. Paul, including a visit to Como Zoo. The family also frolics in the A Maze'n Farmyard. Both in spring 2008.
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The kids had fun during the winter of 2007-2008.
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We venture to Omaha, Nebraska in the spring of 2007.
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Alex and Caleb are baptized on May 12th, 2007.
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We have fun in the snow at The Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center, we awe at a winter snowstorm, and watch the big spring thaw during the winter of 2006.
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We head up to Grand Marais for a week at a cabin in September 2006.
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We get out our shovels and green thumbs and make us a real garden in the spring of 2006.
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We pack up and move in late summer 2005.
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We trek up to Duluth again to ride on Thomas the tank Engine in the summer 2005.
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Our week long RV trip to South Dakota in the summer of 2005.
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One of our trips to he Munsinger Gardens in St. Cloud in summer 2005.
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Our family celebrated our 11th anniversary with a trip to Duluth in April 2005.
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