Wisconsin Vacation Again

Sarah took this picture, and I just had to post it.  The first night at the resort, she set up her camera with a timer and ran and got in the picture.  It worked! ---Carol

50th Anniversary Open House Photos

I received these pictures from Jerry and Ada's 50th anniversary open house and thought they ought to be put on here.  Great photos - looks like it was a lovely party!

Cleve's back to the family "cabin" for 11 days

 

 

Many of you are familiar with the "cabin" we owned for 35 years and sold 2 years ago -- and where Crystal, Aaron, and the 3 grand-boys grew up having so much fun.  Some heavy negotiating resulted in the seller (us!) getting "up to 2 weeks each summer, for 3 years" at the cabin ourselves....they move out, we move in!  So this, our 2nd year, all 8 of us just finished spending 11 fun days at the cabin, 14 miles north of Peoria.  The boys & their parents, along with Aunt Crystal had a ton of fun fishing, scooter-ing, lots of swimming, catching turtles, crawdads, frogs, etc., etc.  The new owners have lots of toys -- a paddle boat, 4 kayaks, 3 paddle-boards, a fishing boat, etc. etc. so there was no idle time. 
We were so happy to enjoy a KLOP EXTENDED FAMILY DAY there 2 years ago on July 4th, just before the sale and were glad that over 40 of you were able to join us!

 The 3 grandboys (Caleb, Carter, and Cooper) jumping and diving off the community "tree-stump-turned-into-diving board". 

          Caleb and Carter with their freshly caught crawdads -- later to be used as fishbait!  Don't look at Kathleen in the background!  (she went to town on day #4 to water her flowers and stepped in a 4" hole in the yard and BROKE her fibula bone near her ankle -- now nursing her leg in a heavy boot cast.)  That might be worthy of a future Blog post all by itself !

         An evening convertible ride down Santa Fe Road to the 1906 concrete railroad overpass.
        The road and beautiful scenery makes you think you are in Kentucky or Arkansas!

         We celebrated 3 birthdays....Caleb, 13   Carter, 11   and Kathleen,  ___.

    They all love to fish and are good at it!  Here's Cooper, age 7, with 2 bass he caught by himself.

               The ever-popular "stump".  All the boys' diving form get better and better each year!

               Carter is an expert frog-catcher.  Could that possibly be a profession someday???? 
           

                                                  Aunt Crystal swimming with the boys.

Paddle-board fun......

Home from China

Look who we found by the side of the road last night!!  (Just so you know, it was a pre-arranged meeting when he turned in his rental car.)  :-)

Wisconsin Vacation

David and Jonas

Supper time at the Resort

Sarah, Preston, Kyla, Ashton, Brandon, Matthew, Glenn

Our WET Hamburger Grillers

Charity, Sarah, Laura, Kyla, Anna (Maria took the picture.)

Ladies Shopping Day

Jonas and Grandpa

Anna and Laura 

New Matching Sweaters

Can you tell they are both horse lovers?

Children singing before afternoon church at Mauston, WI

I hope you don't mind so many pictures!  Monday evening, grilled hamburgers were on the menu so the crew went out to make them.  While they were at the grill site, a heavy downpour drenched them.  But thanks to several umbrellas, the meat was saved and tasted great! ---- Carol

Little Boys

David, Jonas and Anderson

Milan, Anderson, and David

Our family (28 of us) just returned today from several days in Wisconsin Dells.  This is the fourth time we've been there at Christmas Mountain resort, and the accommodations are as close to ideal as we are going to get ---I think.  I didn't take many pictures but we enjoyed a canoe trip, sand volley ball, swimming and minature golfing.  Best of all was the singing when we would all gather in one of the townhouses for our meals.  9 year old Timon led the last song (coached by his 16 year old cousin, Ashton.)  It was, "God be With You Till We Meet Again."
Tuesday morning, Brandon and I watched 4 little boys at a playground while the women folk went shopping at an outlet mall. (Bruce and Glenn supervised the others.) I couldn't get all four together for a picture so I took a few.  Grandma's purse was a big hit!  They are so busy and so cute and just  . . . little boys!  ---Carol

Memorabilia!

It's summertime, and Ann is going through files, drawers, and memorabilia.  So who knows what you might see in the days to come!  This pic is small, and not the greatest quality, but doesn't it bring back a lot of memories!!!