Old World Wisconsin, October 4

The Strand Family invited Wendy, Justin and Dee to Old World Wisconsin, at the beginning of the month. We had a wonderful day, for the weather was gorgeous, bright, sunny and warm plus the park was very interesting and we just had a great time visiting with the
Strands. Thank you Strand's for inviting us along.




Mr. "Gary" used Grant, Lauren and Wendy as "props" or examples during his talk. He really knew a lot about the girls dresses and even Grant's uniform. Unfortunately, no one in WI could figure out why anyone would wear a CSA uniform, so Grant was forced to listen to remarks all day. We toured this house with a group of ladies wearing purple and red.


This interpreter was the blacksmith, he was very interesting and let all the bigger kids try his equipment out. At Old World WI, the interpreters were all very knowledgeable and friendly, probably one of the best parks we have been at.

Justin kept saying that Lauren didn't fit when he looks at this picture, he says that also.



At the town hall playing games of long ago.







Maggie had just tumbled off the bench, but the kids were all so sweet looking on.

On the tram, which was one of the highlights of the day for Justin.

At the Raspberry Schoolhouse.









Another good day.

More Old World WI

Happy Birthday Bob!

Happy Birthday to a wonderful husband, father and friend. Everyday we are all so very thankful for this amazing man. He is a great leader, yet willing to serve another, loving, fun, a Godly man, a wise counselor and ready listener, I could go on and on, but since you know him I'm sure you could fill in your own adjective. Nevertheless, we love and respect him greatly.

Happy Birthday.

Birthday celebration

Justin took the gift bag, filled it with cars and pulled that around and the ballooons. He also fell and really bumped the back of his head, so he needed frozen peas to make his head feel better. In our house you put the frozen peas on the bump, but you also get to eat frozen peas, while you are trying to feel better. We didn't have any peas, so we used frozen lima beans. So there he was eating a chocolate cupcake and frozen lima beans, he felt better real soon.

We did get to have new horns after Monday's events.

Long ago pictures, happy birthday again.

Our Wendy worked really hard trying to find pictures to put together for her dad. She did a nice job selecting. Starting at the top left, is a picture with his sister Laura, next with his Grama Winnie at our wedding (he was 19 yo), the next top picture is with his dad, Bob is the infant, Laura to the left, Kurt in the middle and Wendy to the right.

Second row: First married and our vehicles, which included is 1979 GMC 4x4, the program cropped off the plow, but the truck was quite sharp and was his first real vehicle. Next pic. with his mom, next as a grade school boy.

Third row: I think 6Th grade, next sophomore year in high school, when we first started officially dating, though we'd been close friends for about two years prior. Next again w/ Laura.
**OK, after really looking at the pictures, the bottom left is from our freshman year at York High School, this is when we first met. The second picture on the bottom (the middle one) Bob was a junior, and yes it just after we started dating. It was all 30 years agao, but you'd think I could remember.

Daniel having fun

Slideshow for Daniel's birthday.

Here's a quick slideshow of Daniel through the years. Again, it is with Slide.com, the music is by Bob's cousin's daughter, it is fairly mild, so I thought I would try it. You can mute the music if you like. In order to load, just click on the small x in the box that follows. Then you can watch in the original format or w/ the option of "gallery". Just back click to return back to the blog.

More birthday fun.

Everyone got a little crazy. **Warning, maybe Joshua should not look at the following post :)
Even our mild mannered Abbey had to join in and they all got the giggles so bad, I think Daniel was crying. Happy Birthday Daniel. Now the problem is we'll need to get new birthday horns for Bob's birthday tomorrow, because these are wet and have other problems! :)

Happy Birthday Daniel

Today, Daniel will turn 23 years old. We had to do birthday dinner last night, for he has school tonight. We wanted to celebrate Daniel style, so we pulled out the birthday horns and everyone got alittle carried away. We were all having a fun time.
Happy Birthday Daniel. We love you and have prayed especially for you, for nearly 24 years. You make us all laugh.

 

 

 

 

Curly hair

With curly hair, you just don't know how it will turn out each morning. Wendy was having a really bad hair day. :)

 

Old pictures from 4th of July golf.

These are pictures we have from the golf match organized by Dave Y., last 4th of July. Daniel and Wendy played with Beth and Vern Beatty. The pictures were on our smaller camera and we just now downloaded them.

Our internet has been giving us so much trouble, we can hardly get logged on. So if we appear to be ignoring anyone or if you need a definate answer, the phone is going to be your best bet. We do love all the comments we get, thanks, they are great.