Sunday, November 15, 2009

A few fall pics of the Bowden and Benjamin 2009

Benjamin just about a year old here..Yes! this is FALL! ......we had 2 snow storms in Oct!















Misc Pics from my Mom's visit and Eagle Bend Conv. 2009


We made a batch Apple butter on the 27th September out of the apples off our tree in the backyard. It was tasty.

Jerry's trip out to Rhode Island and back...(his dad bought a new pickup truck so jerry flew out there and drove back to keep his dad company) ...they made a stop at the Ford Museum in Detriot.





The nice part about daylight savings.....you get to wake up to this...... hmm ...




Tyler Kract...haning out with the boyz




Heidi and Jordan stayed a few days at our place with thier beautiful Baby Elle :)





Just had to add this one.......... Ha ha!





Liz (my highschool friend from Australia) came to visit for a few days. She saw snow for the first time in her life!


Jana Forsland and me @ Conv.


Gran (my Mom) and Benjamin in the camper at Conv.



mmmmmmm....Mum made the BEST roast Lamb! There is nothing like a good old Aussie roast lamb dinner!!!! This roast cost $40! Mum couldn't beleive how expensive our Lamb was and how cheap chicken is over here.


Axel and Addy! Kent and Jacindas Vist Sept 09









Douglas County Fair August 23-25 2009






















what it looks like with the garage so far..

Not the best shots but I just took these this morning....



Some changes to our house this summer.....








Starting on the garage foundation. (early fall) ...will put more pics up later...

Saturday, November 14, 2009

update...

Its been so long since i logged in here, I almost forgot my password. I really don't know where the last couple of months have gone. Sometimes I wonder the clock really did grow wings and fly. I feel like it should still be the beginning of october...which is as far back as i can remember right now anyway.
My Mom arrived Oct 2nd to beautiful fall weather and a culture shock of 'American busyness' The first week she was here was a juggle between kids, Universtiy, Convention and trying to impress my mom with tasty American food--which didn't work--because every night we came home she has some awesome Aussie dish bubbling away in the oven! In fact..I don't think i even turned the dial on my washing machine the whole time she was here either. Such a treat...I miss her so much. Convention was wonderful. Jerry and I made it to most of #1 and I made it to the Sun of #2 (My Mom was sick with a bad cold and pink eye.) That Fri Liz (a school friend from Australia that I hadn't seen since 8th grade) came to visit. the next day it snowed..Liz was more excited than i have ever seen anyone in a long time. It was her first time seeing snow.
The next week I got sick with a bad cold and the stomach flu. Jerrys mom came down to visit. She was going to take my mum up to Deluth but becuase i was sick and Jerry was Driving back from Rhode Island with his Dad, they didn't go. So they stayed here and skipped around Alexandira visiting all the touristy places and booked my Mom tickets to Florida (Disney World etc). Florida was where my Mom finally warmed up...she had 80-90degree temps while we were wearing hats and mittens.
The next weekend (Halloween) we all went down to the cities to pick up shane and Joni from the airport. Shane rode back with Jerry to work on our garage (we have a garage almost built now! Yaay!) and My mom and I stayed with Joni and went to the Mall of America, the zoo and the childrens Museum. I took my mom to the airport that friday morning :(. It was sad to see her go. She says she had a good time. The kids got to know here really well. Espeically Bowden. He can picture who 'Gran' is for real now. Joni the kids and I made it back home Friday night to more snow. The guys had to give up working on the garage becuase of the storm. Sooo ....its Halloween night and Joni and I are the 'Men in the yellow hat and the Bowden and Benjamin are both Courious George the monkey. Its beyond words how cute they were. Joni found the cutest monkey costumes that were so warm and cozy--perfect for a white halloween. so we all went trick or treating and stock piled up on candy for the year and got all sugared up on corn syrup. Ha...i hadn't even had supper..so i was really hyped! woooooh.
oh my battery is going to die on me so i will finish this later
cherio.