4th of July – 2015

Posted on July 12, 2015 by Keanen

This year at the lake was wonderful. We had beautiful weather, lots of time on the water, time with family and friends, and ended it with fireworks before heading home. Unfortunately, I am missing many pictures because my phone is at the bottom of the lake 🙁

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Our annual picture of the kids near the parade

Safe fun with fireworks

Our third trip to Upper Loon

No egg this time

Carolyn joined me at the Geocache!!

Nix and Jen

This is the last time that my phone was seen before going to the bottom of the lake 🙁

Cabin weekend with the Lenzen family

Posted on July 12, 2015 by Keanen

Lot’s of family joined us in June along with the Lenzen family for a weekend of fun. All three brothers were up with friends. We went to upper Loon, the girls did some shopping, we played games, stayed up late, and played in the water.

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The brothers

Ladies hanging out

Another visit to Upper Loon

Love birds on the dock enjoying the sunset

A late night visit to Dave and Vickie’s

A weekend in Alexandria

Posted on July 12, 2015 by Keanen

In June we visited Alexandria to see my Uncle. We visited the Runestone museum, hung out in my Uncle’s small town, shared stories, played mini golf, swam, rode bikes and ate some good food.

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Checking out some Viking history

At the local Legion

The Runestone

Memorial Day Weekend – 2015

Posted on May 29, 2015 by Keanen

We enjoyed two days of sun at the cabin which was great. The kids played and Elizabeth braved the cold water on the paddle board. Joe, Nix, and I took our annual trip to ‘Upper Loon’ with a few guests and we reconnected with friends that we had not seen over the winter.

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Elizabeth confident that she will not fall in – and she did not!

Joey was loving getting back to fishing

Team “Upper Loon”

Catching up with friends playing washers and Jumbo Jenga

I let the kids hack up my beard – I had some explaining to do when people started showing up 🙂

We checked up on our remote GeoCache – all is good! Someone left their tags in it, fun!

Carolyn’s favorite – a bunch of sunset pictures from me 🙂

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Spring Break 2015 – The Grand Canyon

Posted on May 29, 2015 by Keanen

This year for an early thaw we made it down to Phoenix for some warm sun and to check out the Grand Canyon. We spent a couple of days at the pool and one very rewarding day to visit the Grand Canyon. It was quite the site to see! We all enjoyed it very much although we did not get to enjoy for as long as we would have liked. As usual, pictures do not do this landmark justice.

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Catching up – Halloween 2014

Posted on January 17, 2015 by Keanen

The kids had a great time with friends this year and we enjoyed visiting Uncle Nix and Aunt Jen’s great Halloween experience.

Not sure if Joey smiled for this one or not 🙂

Catching up – Fall sports

Posted on January 17, 2015 by Keanen

In addition to the normal grind of dance and karate for the kids. Elizabeth played Volleyball again this year and Joey played flag football for his first season.

Lots of practices, he learned a lot about the game this fall which has carried over into watching a lot of football with Dad 🙂

I love watching Elizabeth grow and compete volleyball – I hope that she continues to harness her competitive spirit to drive her.

Lots of special guests to watch Joey’s games this year including Uncle James who we lost about two weeks later. It was special to share this time with him 🙂

Towards the end of the season it was a little chilly! In the end Joey’s team placed 4th in their league. The playoff games were a blast!

Joey also competed in a forms competition and earned his brown belt this fall.

Catching up – First day of school 2014

Posted on January 17, 2015 by Keanen

Elizabeth started 6th grade this year and Joey began 3rd grade. Now that the school year is almost half over, I am happy to report that it’s going well 🙂

2014 End of summer cabin trips

Posted on January 17, 2015 by Keanen

It’s been a while since I have posted any updates :-\

We had a few visits to the cabin with friends and family before last summer ended.

The Thompson’s came to visit…

The Lenzen’s came up…

And we ended the cabin season with a Labor Day trip

Summer trip to Yellowstone, Grand Tetons, and Mt. Rushmore

Posted on August 5, 2014 by Keanen

This trip has been planned since this time last summer and the time finally came. We went there with the Lenzen family and spent time with three other families at Yellowstone. A broken foot and a ear infection were the two issues that we had. Ruby is one tough cookie and Kyle was an animal carrying her to Inspiration Point. The bottom line is that the weather was terrific and we had a great time!

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We took our time getting to Yellowstone by leaving a few days ahead of time. We stopped in Alexandria, MN then Medora, ND, and finally to Livingston, MT before entering the park. Once ‘there’ we spent four days in the Madison Campground at Yellowstone, another four days and Colter Bay in the Tetons, two days in Spearfish, SD.

Medora Campground

Livingston KOA

Time in Yellowstone
Our view from the campsite

The first day in Yellowstone we headed over to Old Faithful

There she blows!

The springs are so cool (and hot)

On day two we visited Artist’s painters pots and Uncle Tom’s trail

Bandits!

This valley was incredible!

The falls from afar

Dragon’s Mouth Spring – This thing really does roar

Bison!

Yellowstone Lake

We enjoyed plenty of time in this river

A nice warm third day

On our way to the Grand Prismatic Spring

I cannot get over how colorful this wonder is

One last night at the river

Grand Tetons

The lake just down from our campsite

View of the mountains from our campsite

Day two – Up at Jackson Hole

Going back down

Up on the chairlift

Day three – Tetons

The Lenzen crew

The girls helped us start a fire on the beach. Later that night the stars were unreal! We met a couple of college students from China and a couple from New York the Mrs shared a story of surviving the first tower falling on 9/11, incredible stories.