Latest Happenings

New! Farms, furry finds, and fungi are featured on our part 2 page of June and July 2016.

New! Wandering the woods and riding in a bike rodeo are some highlights of Part 1 or our June and July 2016 page.

We welcomed the end of school with many a wander. (Late-May to early June 2016)

We are wowed by creatures great and small during May 2016

Shannon reflects on the spring of 2016.

We savor the simple pleasures over the mild winter of 2015-16.

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.

We welcome Caleb back home and keep our head above the tide by leaning on love.

We beat the back-to-school-blues with many a frolic through the woods and end September with an out of this world experience.

We finish off July with the usual forest frolics, then do the county fair before meeting up with Caleb for our annual convention.

Caleb flies off to Bethel while the rest of us roam the Twin Cities.

We finish off May with lots of Legos, flowers, and frolics and start off June frantically filling our days with Caleb before he departs.

We avoid disaster twice and enjoy springtime's bounty.

We usher in spring with kite flying and rope swinging. Get blown away with our splashing good times.

March marched in warm and sunny. We returned to our usual hiking and s'mores park for some lollygagging.

We entered a strange world of foggy mists and green grass instead of the usual Minnesota snow and ice this winter of 2014-15.

We continue our journeys through the glorious fall 2014.

Our outdoor wandering becomes a Wednesday habit during September 2014.

We seize opportunities to be outdoors while summer fades into fall.

We go on a week vacation to a cabin in a national forest in August 2014.

We enjoy the lazy days of summer in 2014 including a trip to the fair.

We attend the Regional Convention of Jehovah's Witnesses in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

We celebrated our 20th anniversary with a trip to the Minnesota Zoo and the Mall of America

We have a delightfully boring (if not cold) winter of 2013-14. Caleb also finished school!

We go to the fair and visit a farm as school starts back up in the summer and fall of 2013

We have some fun in the sun during the spring and early summer of 2013

We have a boring winter in 2012-2013. Or was it?

We get close to some storm chasers, frolic on the farm, and a get adopted by a furry new member of our clan.

We finish of the summer of 2012 with a trip to Duluth and a frolic at the county fair.

We end spring of 2012 with parties, water fun, and kick off summer with a mishap.

Spring 2012 was marred with a horrible loss for our family. However, we endured and continue on.

Winter 2011-12 had us all asking: where's the snow?

We finish autumn with a trip to a farm and an apple orchard.

We start of fall 2011 with a stroll through some gardens and a day at a state park.

We topped of our summer with a revisit to Pimushe Resort in northern Minnesota.

We had a summer of winners and one mishap during the summer of 2011.

We get through the long cool spring of 2011 by taking a trip to another zoo (with tragic consequences!)and romping around Valleyfair.

Our family grows by two feet! We also go snowshoeing and ape it up at the zoo.

Our family visits two different farms this fall, as well as visiting the fire station, a park, and getting to hug Mickey Mouse!

Our 2010 summer fun included a trip to the zoo, our annual convention, and a day at the fair.

The kids, Shannon, and Grandpa head for the hills again for a week of South Dakota adventure in June of 2010.

We spend our 14th anniversary as a family up in Duluth, and we visit Grandma Kaye at her new lakeside home.

We had a blast over the winter of 2009-10

All about the autumn of 2009

We revisit Omaha and their zoo in the summer of 2009.

The boys bonded this summer with another lake Superior fishing trip and a day at Valleyfair.

We kick off the summer with farm fun, wild walkings, and an emergency!

We explore nature around us and visit the Minnesota Zoo in the spring of 2009.

Snow creations abound and we enjoy a romp around St. Paul during the 2008-09 winter.

We enjoy the 2008 fall colors at a local park.

We finish off late summer 2008 with many adventures!

We all head up to Pimushe Resort by Bemidji, Minnesota, for a week of summertime fun.

The boys fish Lake Superior, and the girls have a big surprise for you! Both in the summer of 2008.

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.

The kids had fun during the winter of 2007-2008.

We venture to Omaha, Nebraska in the spring of 2007.

Alex and Caleb are baptized on May 12th, 2007.

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.

We head up to Grand Marais for a week at a cabin in September 2006.

We get out our shovels and green thumbs and make us a real garden in the spring of 2006.

We pack up and move in late summer 2005.

We trek up to Duluth again to ride on Thomas the tank Engine in the summer 2005.

Our week long RV trip to South Dakota in the summer of 2005.

One of our trips to he Munsinger Gardens in St. Cloud in summer 2005.

Our family celebrated our 11th anniversary with a trip to Duluth in April 2005.