A busy fall

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
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Elizabeth joined volleyball
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Joey earned his blue belt
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And he competed in a tournament against 15 other boys
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Saturday volleyball games
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A visit from David and Ruby
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Pumpkin carving (notice the gloves that Carolyn provided the kids – lame!!)
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Date night celebrating 14 years of marriage πŸ™‚
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Volleyball tournament
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Ellen’s birthday party with a Halloween costume party
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Labor Day weekend 2013

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

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Geocaching fun

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Great friends
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Craft time for the kids
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The boys doing what boys do
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The girls building forts with fire wood
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Cabin weekend and Lake Sarah visit with the Hollahan’s

It’s been many years since I have been able to hang out with the Hollahan’s two weeks in a row πŸ™‚ 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!
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At Dave’s hanging out
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The girls having fun on a pontoon ride
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Anniversary weekend for Marc and Genell
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Enjoying time with the kids
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Happy Moms
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A great day in the sun
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A visit to the Laura Ingalls Wilder museum (many pictures in the Lake Sarah link above)
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Carolyn’s birthday and a camping trip

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 πŸ™‚

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A nice evening at the park
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Elizabeth and little Ruby in her wagon
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Birthday girl helping me out with dinner
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Good old fashion teeter totter
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A couple geocaching finds
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Joey’s Birthday Party

A few weeks late but catching up on events with the family. Joey had his 8th birthday party with his friends at Pump It Up. Good times were had by all and it was an appropriate place for the boys to burn some energy!

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The crew being goofy
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The theme of the party was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for everything and then when we were ordering cake he did not want TMNT but picked Harry Potter instead
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Joey still had time for his big sister πŸ™‚
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4th of July – 2013

We spent wonderful week up at the cabin with the family. The weather could not have been better!! As usual, the kids all had fun playing and there was a lot of tubing behind the new Netzinger boat, we went to the local parade, visited a county fair, made smores, drifted around on tubes, went on a horse pulled carriage ride, launched model rockets, visited the some historical sites, maintained our GeoCache, went fishing, visited “Florida Point”, went on many pontoon trips, and hung out with friends.

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A picture with great Gma and Gpa after launching model rockets
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Yummy
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Big Joe pulling the boys
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Carolyn managed very well with her bad foot
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After the parade
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Fun times in town with the carriage ride
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Shane and Nicky’s new boat
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Where’s the candy?
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At the GeoCache
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The good old Tilt-o-whirl
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Ready for fireworks
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