Judah & Adriene

Here are Judah and Adrienne in the Japanese Garden in San Francisco. The other picture is of Anna with her brother Judah, can you see the family resenmblance?

Big news

We are thrilled with the news that our grandson Judah and his wife,
Adrienne are expecting their first baby in June. They have been together for 13 years and married for 3 years. They live in San Francisco where Judah is one of the managers of the big Haight Ashbury Music Center. I guess we will surely have to make a trip west one of these days now that with Josh's family in Portland, Or. we will have 4 great grandchildren on the west coast. I am having trouble getting a picture of them scanned and put on the blog but will do that later. What fun it has been to see our family grow into a 4th generation.
We feel really lucky to have been able to be a part of that considering we didn't have our first child until we were 26.
The cool weather and the snow flurries have us thinking about heading for Texas in a little over a month.,

oops

I got word from my granddaughter that it was, in fact, her MoM our daughter, Mary who took those pictures. I don't want to get anyone in trouble so I figured ui had better correct this right away. Since I posted that last night I heard from grandson,Josh out in Oregon. He is now moved into the house they are renting and will go back to Mn, in about 3 weeks to load the moving van and pile the family in the van and bring them to Portland. A very exciting time for them.

birds

These great pictures were taken by our granddaughter when she and her family were here on our lake. Kirstin and Damian have a digital camera similar to ours and they went out fishing early when the birds are most active. This eagle had a nest on the south end of our lake but the tree fell in a storm last year and they have now re-nested on the point just around the bend from our place. What a sight!

Princess Stella

Stella has learned the family trick of having multiple birthday celebrations. Some friends gathered on the Sat. before her birthday, then she and Holly and Anna and the boys went to Chuckee Cheese on the real birthday and then last Sunday she had a princess party which included 3 of her little friends all dressed up as princesses. Pretty cool.
We are going to miss having them nearer but will keep the pictures and emails going. They are going to rent a house in Portland and move the end of the month so the family will be together and Stella can start pre-school.
Our other 4 yr. old, Emma, is really enjoying pre-school now that they are settled in Beaver Dam and Kirstin likes her job with the cell phone company.
We are enjoying some great programs provided by our Academy of Life Long Learning. Had one on King Tut's treasures by an area historian with a lot of Egyptology background and one by a historian from the cities who has done a book on Minnesota in the Civil War. Next week we go to the Norwegian Language Camp for a program on the life in northern Norway where it is dark for about 4 months. That'll teach us to complain about winter! Keep warm as autumn comes!