Goodbye to the Rheder family as Johanna goes back to Germany

 We are having a lot of fun at the bonfire.... well okay by the look of Johannas face, the smoke is killing her.
Paula, Addlea, Johanna and Jans

 The two families that met for three days will be forever friends...
Jans, Paula, Doris, Johanna, Addlea, Marette, Baihley, Jim

Photo bombing.... Doris and Mom got photo bombed by Ginger, Jordan and Jans.

Duck dynasty

Moms trip to the cabin...in the rain

Tyler getting ready to go to New Hampshire

Dad and Tyler working

The ducks

One of our favorite girls grace reed

Jo Jo and Baihley at Easter

Ted, Marette and Sharon stolz..friends I used to live with in Iowa

Spending some precious friends..Charlotte Fagen, Sharon and Maggie.

winter in Minnesota

 Johanna is playing basketball... well she says she's the best bench sitter ever. I go to the games and take pictures and have fun.  Here she is in warm-ups.

I have named him Wesley; he's the cardinal that comes each day. His wife comes too but she's not quite as brilliant.  

 Festival of Trees

 The day I took Tyler back to Des Moines was foggy and ice crystals were everywhere. It was beautiful. This picture was taken as I came back home up the driveway. It was about 1 p.m. and still the trees were beautiful.

 A barn somewhere along I-35. Tyler was driving...

Porky...

Closing out 2013 and welcoming in 2014

 We had a wonderful time of sitting  by the corn stove when the temperature went below zero for many days in a row. Cold, frigid, freezing, bitter; any words you want to use simply meant ridiculously windy, wind chills in the 50 below zero range.  Thankfully all is well...

Porky has somehow become kind of a house cat..... and he loves it.  

 When the temps began plunging down in the below zero double digits with wind chills coming in at 50 below zero, we brought the horses in for almost three days.  They loved the warmth but did enjoy getting back outside when it hit zero!

 Hollidazzle parade in Mpls... beautiful

 Going to get the Christmas tree... In the new truck

We found it... slightly irregular and of course crooked but matches us!!!!

The last of August our life was enhanced by the arrival of our foreign exchange student Johanna... from Germany.   She was a part of the Homecoming Festivities.

 I drove up to Zona's and we drove up to Rick and Cheryl Kubitza's 50th Anniversary...  Here is Jennie, Cherry, Me and Kim.

 Split Rock Lighthouse over MEA

 Johanna and I at Gooseberry Falls.

 At Auntie Lee's Memorial Service; Jim, Ron, Marette and Rosalie.

  Kevin and Me at the graveside service

 our 25th Anniversery trip up the Gunflint Trail

 Festival of Trees,  Johanna Marette and Baihley

  Me and He

What a difference a year makes.  Last year we were mourning Hawkeye. This year we have Harvey doing well and growing..

Family Pictures

 Our favorite but it didn't blow up well.

 Notice; the kids have on t-shirts of where they will be next year... Singapore, Milligan College and Mankato State.  We didn't think ahead to buy shirts that said Kasson, or the farm....