Spring Break 2014 – Disney World

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Keanen

I was in Orlando for a conference the week leading up to spring break and so Carolyn and the kids hopped on a plane to join me and we extended the trip into the weekend to enjoy some time at Disney World 🙂

We spent an evening at Downtown Disney, a day at Epcot, and a day at the Typhoon Lagoon water park. At Epcot, we stood in line (against my wishes) for three hours to see the princesses from Frozen, we were able to get autographs from a few more princesses into the autograph books, and the Test Track was also a good time! Joey’s face during that ride was so funny as we whipped around turns and accelerated down straightaways. At Typhoon Lagoon, we enjoyed some sun and warm water. I loved the wave pool, the kids had a great time on the water slides, and Mommy enjoyed a chair in the sun 🙂 It was nice to get away from the cold and see the kids have such big smiles on their faces.

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Hanging out at Downtown Disney

A three hour wait… Elizabeth was happy though 🙂

Snow White!

The famous Epcot ‘ball’

Hulk Smash!

We love Typhoon Lagoon!

2014 Northern Lights Party

Posted on February 9, 2014 by Keanen

Carolyn and I had a blast with friends last night at the Radisson Blue hotel. Good food, good music, and great company 🙂

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Some of the usual suspects…

There are plenty of others that I did not get on camera…

Cozumel with friends and family

Posted on January 11, 2014 by Keanen

Carolyn and I were joined by Dan, LeAnn, Nix, Jenny, Stan, and Chrissy in Cozumel this past week. We faced a lot of rain and cold weather until the day that we were due to leave but still managed to have a great time! It was a bonus that ‘cold’ Cozumel weather was still upwards to 90 degrees warmer than it was at home 🙂

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It rained for four of our five days but we did not care and enjoyed ourselves

Carolyn sent a picture to Mom each day to show that her boys were still alive 🙂

A few of us went on a snorkel tour

The nearby ships were fun to watch

We saw the ship that my parents and Stan are going on in the coming months…

It was so hard to leave on our last day with our first views of the sun

Christmas break 2013

Posted on January 3, 2014 by Keanen

I was able to take a good amount of time off this Christmas. We played games, video games, went ice skating, sledding, watched football, went to a game, shopped, spent time with family, and enjoyed a quiet new year. It was very relaxing to be home with everyone.

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Elizabeth has been begging to go ice skating 🙂

Sledding down the street

Sledding at the park with friends

A Christmas program at school

Joey earned a new belt!

Having fun on Christmas Eve

A visit from Santa

Having a hard time containing themselves as Dad wants a picture

The final Vikes game at the dome with my buddy Darin

A busy fall

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Keanen

Playing a bit of fall catch up on posting here…

Since Labor Day and the start of school, our family has been busy with sports and other activities just like many of our friends. We have enjoyed nice fall days, went to karate, karate tournaments, volleyball and dance practice, a volleyball tournament, had a visit from our niece Ruby, carved pumpkins, celebrated 14 years of marriage, and finally a birthday for a dear neighbor.

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Fun with pictures at the neighbors

Elizabeth joined volleyball

Joey earned his blue belt

And he competed in a tournament against 15 other boys

Saturday volleyball games

A visit from David and Ruby

Pumpkin carving (notice the gloves that Carolyn provided the kids – lame!!)

Date night celebrating 14 years of marriage 🙂

Volleyball tournament

Ellen’s birthday party with a Halloween costume party

First day of school 2013

Posted on September 18, 2013 by Keanen

A little behind on my posts but the kids managed to start another year of school. The happiest of the bunch? Carolyn 🙂

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and they are off…

The new locker

In front of his new classroom

Labor Day weekend 2013

Posted on September 18, 2013 by Keanen

The final summer holiday weekend of the summer was a good one. We hung out in the water quite a bit, took boat rides, went geocaching when it was cooled off, made crafts, build forts from firewood, and hung out with friends.

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Geocaching fun

Great friends

Craft time for the kids

The boys doing what boys do

The girls building forts with fire wood

Cabin weekend and Lake Sarah visit with the Hollahan’s

Posted on September 18, 2013 by Keanen

It’s been many years since I have been able to hang out with the Hollahan’s two weeks in a row 🙂 We made it happen this summer and had them up at the cabin followed by a visit to Lake Sarah the following weekend. Everyone had a blast!

On the way home from Lake Sarah we visited the Laura Ingalls Wilder museum which both Carolyn and Elizabeth were very excited about.

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The boys are back!

At Dave’s hanging out

The girls having fun on a pontoon ride

Anniversary weekend for Marc and Genell

Enjoying time with the kids

Happy Moms

A great day in the sun

A visit to the Laura Ingalls Wilder museum (many pictures in the Lake Sarah link above)

Carolyn’s birthday and a camping trip

Posted on August 11, 2013 by Keanen

Today is Carolyn’s birthday and so we had her family over including everyone’s favorite, little Ruby. We also spent a night camping in our new camper. Since we were camping locally we had visitors including my parents and Dan, LeAnn, and Murphy which was a lot of fun 🙂

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A nice evening at the park