Emmy!

Happy Birthday, Emmelia!!!!



Today is Emmy's 6th birthday.

We love you Emmy, and your smile and cheerful attitude adds so much to our home!!

My family

I realized, I haven't really put any good pictures of my family, so here they are!


The best parents in the whole wide world!


Isaac (Ike) - 15 1/2


Zachary (Zack) - 14 1/2


Aleksandra (Aleks) - 8 (going on 18!)

The rest . . . . .

Emmelia (Emmy) - almost 6


Grace - 4


Elsie - 2


Last (but not least!) Anja - 2 months

Please pray . . . .

Please pray for Anja, she has a 104 fever last time we checked. We brought her to the Dr. earlier, and he's not sure exactly what she's got (our first though was teething, but she's kinda young!). We were going to go to Michigan tomorrow morning through Sunday night, but we're going to stay home now, unless her fever breaks tonight or tomorrow morning. She's been sleeping a lot, which is very unusual for her. We all miss her smiles!!

Elsie!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELSIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today is Elsie's 2nd birthday!!


Elsie & Anja

I love you sooooo much Elsie, and can't imagine our home without your laughter, smiles, and trouble!!

Elizabeth and I

Here are some pictures of Elizabeth's and mine matching outfits for convention!! We got the shirts from a western store, and bought material and then made the skirts. They turned out really well!! The hats weren't part of the outfit, but we borrowd my brother's hats for the pictures (I LOVE black cowboy hats!!)

Round dancing

Ike and I trying to Round dance!!

More about convention . . . . .

More convention pictures (with a different square):


"Heads square through 4"


"Boys star right"


"Right and left grand" (one of my favorite moves!)


"Swing your partner!"

Convention!!

49th WISCONSIN SQUARE AND ROUND DANCE CONVENTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!

With those of us who square dance, the convention is a BIG deal!! Once a year, at a big building of some kind (usually it's held at a school) there are square dancers from all over the state (usually well over 1.000 people). There are halls for mainstream (basic square dancing), plus (hard level), youth hall (which there aren't many youth), round dancing halls (round dancing is just with you and your partner, not others as in a square), and several others. For three days (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) there is square dancing with different callers (square dancing) and cuers (round dancing). Here are some pictures:


"Sides square through 4"


"Circle left"


"Promenade"


"Swing and twirl"

Elizabeth!!!!!!!!

Last week I FINALLY got to meet my very dear friend and pen-pal, Elizabeth Ulmer! We were able to pick her up from her sister's Mother-in-Law's house (she had gone down to Kansas to visit her son and daughter-in-law [Elizabeth's sister] and brought Elizabeth back to her house). We had soooooo much fun while she was here!!!!!! Here are some pictures we took:


Elizabeth & I


Elizabeth with Anja


Me holding Anja


Swinging!!

We also went swimming at a friends house, went shopping for matching shirts and material for skirts (pictures coming soon!!), taught Elizabeth how to square dance and went to the Wisconsin State Square Dance Convention (we have pictures of that too) all before meeting her parents in Des Moines, Iowa on Sunday.

I had sooooooooooo much fun with you, Elizabeth, and pray we can get-together again soon!