The WoldFamily Blog

The kids had “bring your parent to lunch day” yesterday.

Elizabeth and Ruby

Joey

Getting a picture with “one of the” lunch helpers

We had a fun afternoon with family and friends at the parade. The kids walked away with bags of candy, pencils, and other items.

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A few of the kids…

The Grandparents

Elizabeth and Dorothy

My favorite, the marching band

Elizabeth and Joey were very excited today for their first day of school. Joey was especially excited about his first day of kindergarten.

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All set waiting for the bus

Joey getting on the bus for the first time with his big sister Elizabeth

We met the kids at school to take them to class

Joey is a tired boy after telling us, “six and a half hours is a long time”

The final family weekend at the cabin for the season was a relaxing one. The weather was all over the map so we only had a little water time on Friday and had a great time sitting in the sun between showers on Sunday along with a fun visit to a corn maze

A nice time at the corn maze

Just warm enough for swimming

At the Tiki Bar

Last weekend the kids and I spent some time with the Hollahan’s and some of their friends. The kids all got along great and had a great time together.

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The kids all having lunch

Tubing!

Sam and Joey

They went down for the day to visit Uncle David and Aunt Stephanie. They told me that they had a great time

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We had a couple quiet summer weekends at home with friends and family. We watched Twins and Vikings games on the deck with friends, had family over for a couple of meals, took a trip to the mall, stained the deck and play set, and attended a family reunion.

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Hanging with Grandma Hess at the reunion

The July and August Birthday crowd

Dad’s helper

We had a great time with friends and neighbors tonight. Carolyn did a great job setting up to host tonight’s event. Thanks to everyone for bringing some great eats and especially Jon for feeding everyone some wonderful steak! We even had a visit from McGruff the Crime Dog who was a hit with the kids.

We filled a good sized bucket for the food shelf which Carolyn will deliver soon!

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Most of the gang

Mmm, steak

Smurfs?

McGruff and Kevin

Carolyn and I had a great time in Duluth with Dan and LeAnn this weekend while the kids were with Grandma and Grandpa. We had a nice time hanging out. We went to see some great sites including Goosebury Falls and Split Rock. Also, there were casual dinners, playing cards and bar trivia.

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At Enger Tower

Goosebury

Dan and LeAnn at Goosebury

Carolyn and me

The Canadian Enterprise going through the port

We spent the entire last week at the cabin. We had everyone up from our family with exception of Katie. As usual the kids had a blast together and the adults had their own fun. We played in the water, boated, visited “Florida Point”, spent a lot of time at the Tiki Bar and Sand Bar, watched fireworks, attended a parade, played mini golf, went through a huge maze, and hung out with friends.

The weather could not have been better, there were only a couple of small instances of rain that occurred mostly during sleeping hours and the water was very refreshing.

**Disclaimer – I have a little tradition with the kids, they like when I shave my beard, I only do this when we have a long vacation. Don’t be scared

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Mom was very happy to have all of her boys together (miss you Katie!)

Getting ready for the parade

Nix and Jenn

Nicky and the kids

Netzinger girls

Shane has a dance off with the kids

Logan and Joey were so excited to hangout

Elizabeth and Chloe were water bugs the entire time

One of many beautiful sunsets during the week

Having fun with neighbors late one evening

Many visits to “Florida Point”

A slideshow of all of our fun (might take some time to view all of the pictures and videos)