End of the school year

 Last day of School for the kids we always go and take a picture of their class. Tyler finishes 2nd grade.

 Tyler and his teacher Ms. I-B

Megan and Mr Ritzert.

 Mr. Pickett

 

M




 Mr Cambell

 

Memorial Day Weekend camping with friends

Every year we go camping with a family we have met. Megan's friend Sydney Bloedel and her family. This year we went to Devils Lake State Park. It was a beautiful summer-like weekend...hot and breezy! Hiking at Devils Lake is a must. So that's where we started...

We hiked all of the North side of the park....stopping a taking photos in many places.

 

 

                     A family photo...plus one.

                                              Megan even took this one of Calvin and I.

Having a best friend is important...and today, Sydney and Megan are BESTIES!

Just one of the many beautiful scenes in this park. This one may be hand made, but many made by the glaciers many years ago....they are beautiful. 

 

 

Cal and Tyler overlooking the view

Megan and I...one of my favorite pics!

                                             Brennan, Sydney's brother and Tyler.

 

 

 

Devils Doorway. A famous formation for the park.

 

This is Lisa, she is Sydney's mom and one of my dearest friends.

 

 

Here are the girls of the trip. Lisa, Me,Sydney,her sister Peyton and Megan.

 

                            
                               The guys. Matt, Syds dad,Cal,Tyler and Brennan.Syds Brother.

                                      The girls wanted to go to the beach, while the boys went fishing, so we made it to the beach. Having fun, digging for shells, making a castle and tanning....   

 This weekend was a fantastic weekend, we all had fun, hiking, having some fun around the campfire and telling stories. Until next year Bloedel family!!

 

 

 

 

 

Our first camping trip!!

 

 

 

Our first camping trip we went to Governor Dodge state park. Cal and the kids went up on Thursday evening, and I worked Friday and drove up to meet them. The kids were so excited to camp in the new camper!!  It was the first time we would be able to make chocolate chip cookies in the oven!! (the guy who inspected our camper with us, was the one who put the idea in the kid's heads) we even shared some with the neighbors, who had kids and enjoyed them greatly....

 

 

 

 

Here are the cookies going into the stove.

 

Enjoying the cookies....and more cookies. We ate the whole batch.!!

 

 

 

we took a walk in the park to Stephens Falls.

Checking things out while on our walk..... and learning about the past and who lived in the park was fun for both us adults and kids!!

 

 

The falls were beautiful, peaceful and refreshing....

made for a great photo op! SMILE!!

 

 



OUR NEW RIDE!!!!

Ok, so it's been a while as I was so politely reminded by my awesome cuz Patti... :P 

So in April, we refinanced our house. That was a pain in the ass, but finally it was finished. Then we purchased our camper. A 27 foot Coleman pull behind camper. It was so amazing, and exciting for our family. A new beginning to our camping!!! Kids were SOOOOOO excited!!

Here are some photos of the camper and the inside.

our bathroom....with a FLUSH TOILET!!!

Our stove.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here, we are getting the keys to the camper! SO excited!! 

  

 

 

Parked in the driveway it looks alot bigger!! UH OH!!

                               Here are the lights we got for the camper! They are
                                 WISCONSIN BADER MOTION W LIGHTS!!

 

 

7 friends............and a weekend together.....just plain relaxing.!!

March 16th, myself and Lisa Bloedel, Kari Hamele, Kim Overland, Katie Letcher, Angie Levine and Jasmine Runass went to Campfire sing for a relaxing weekend. A few of us went to Tanger Outlet mall, stopped at lunch and made a walmart trip....

My FAVORITE place at the cabin to take a photo is the swing on the porch. Here Lisa and I pose for a pic....I made EVERYONE take a photo with me....

Our first evening there...Friday, we had the most BEAUTIFUL sunset!! We all sat and watched it set..only problem....Bites from the bugs!!!

Dinner that evening was Spaghetti, garlic bread, and Ceaser salad......amazing dinner, with wonderful friends!

Before dinner we started our beverages. In our RED SOLO CUPS!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKZqGJONH68

FRIENDS......simply said!

I love my friends....it was an AMAZING WEEKEND!!

I am saddened to say that 3 weeks ago now I pulled my achallies and am no longer running. I plan to get back into it, but have to rest it. I was up to 8 min runs and enjoying it like crazy. Lost 10lbs, and was doing really good! I WILL get back into it!! I have only gained one pound since then, am doing well in watching what I'm eating, and am proud of what I have done...when all is healed, I plan to get back into running...until then, I'm stuck with Zumba and Jillian Michaels with my friend Lisa Bloedel....

Dad's second Cateract Eye surgery

1/24/12

Today my Dad had his second Cataract surgery on his eye. He's been a little grumpy. But certainly better than last time. He's sensitive to the ways things are, but they say that's the sedation meds they gave him. I hope that the passing off to Becky tonight goes smoothly. I have to drive him to Mt.Horeb to meet Becky at work.