FYI for the family reunion

Just a note to keep everyone up to date about the family reunion.
Linda, Mary and Ann will be providing brats, burgers, buns, plastic ware, plates, cups and a crystal lite type drink.
Some ideas for pot luck foods would be salads (potato, macaroni, lettuce), raw veggies, fresh fruits, deviled eggs, chips, and dessert ideas....cookies, bars, cake.
If you know what you will bring, please respond in the comments area, so we don't end up with a dozen potato salads, and NO DESSERTS!!!! Thanks to all, and lets all hope for nice weather. See everyone the last Sat in June.

More of Matt and Liz Reception

Matt and Liz Reception

Some photos from Matt and Liz's reception.

news from Ann

hi everyone
Happy memorial weekend to everyone. I have been trying to figure out how to send pictures to the blog but have not had any luck. We are glad to have the wedding reception over with and the way today has been, we are glad it wasn't schedule for today!! More rain!! We are thankful for the rain though. Roger and I went to the cemetary, a birthday party, and then stopped at Virginia's last night. The cemetary was being mowed for this weekend and looked very nice. Virginia and Carl planned to get flowers to put in the pot this morning -- I told her to get ones that would match the wreath we put out there!!!! She knew I was kidding. My garden is coming along, I'll have to replant the beans as very few came up. It will be nice when the tomatoes are ready. We have been eating lettuce, and few radishes. Roger found a few strawberries starting to turn. Maybe we will have some for the reunion!! Hope we will see alot of you June 30th and that we have a sunny warm (not hot) day!!
Love to all

Pictures from Vegas

here are pictures that Barb submitted for the blog

Welcome Baby

As some of you know we have a new baby to welcome...........check out the news about Savanah on Dean's blog........
Congratulations Angela and Deron, our prayers and thoughts are with you. I hear what she lacks in size she makes up for in stanima.
Love you all

Thanks to all, from Ann

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone. Hope all you who were able to attend Matt and Liz's reception had a safe trip home last night. Sorry I couldn't stop the rain!!! I am sure Matt is feeling rotten this morning-----but shouldn't have felt anything last night for as much as he drank!! I've tried to call several times this morning but the phone call gets dropped before it picks up. Hopefully we can get a few picture on the blog for those who were unable to be there. Hope to see all in June for the family reunion!!

Carl's Turkey

From Alan:
Here's a picture of Carl from this morning he shot a turkey and since their computer is down thought I send you a pic of him for the family site. It weighed just under 25 pounds. Carl and Virginia don't know I'm sending it to you so it should be a surprise when they finally get on the site.

blog info

if some of you have been having trouble sending posts please try again........
new info that you want posted please try this address.....

hayesfamily9@gmail.com


if you send something to this address and you don't see it posted with a day or so, email Mary at her broadband address....

anyone that wants to post their own info.......let me know, and I can have Nancy tell you what to do......

Thanks for all the info

love to all
and have a great day

News from Gabby and Barb

Hi everyone,
Will see you in a few short hours, but wanted to say that we're glad to hear that everyone in Mary's family is doing good and I hope that Heather doesn't have to seen an emergency again soon! I've been away at a conference in Brainerd since Wednesday, and although I attended a lot of meetings, we did have a good time. During one night's entertainment, we had an Elvis impersonator (sp.) and also had a contest in dressing up in the 50's. Had a poodle skirt, saddle shoes and funky glasses and wouldn't you know that I won the contest and $25 bucks!
Kim and Erick's anniversary is tomorrow, and they are going to spend it at Mystic Lake Casino. It doesn't seem like it's been a year already, but it is!
Not much else to tell now, so will see you soon.
Barb and Gabby
May 19, 2007

A new blog to check out!

Hello family,
Since it takes longer to email the pictures than to post them I started aBlog, (t's trendy) hope you will all stop by and check it out, if you have other family member emails could you forward this on? I understand that some of you will never be able to visit because of work and other reasons but don't worry I never hold a grudge longer than a year. Mostly we just plan to post pictures as often as we can in random order as they get edited. Complete with colorful narrations by yours truly. oh and if you do not want your smiling face on the web please let me know as you maybe in some pictures that I have.
The email associated with the blog is bolintribe@gmail.com
the website is:: http://bolintribe.blogspot.com/
visit soon and visit often,I am starting with older pictures mostly around2003, and sooner but there are recent pics shuffled in too!anyway it's 2:15 AM andI need my 5 hours of sleep,
Dean Bolin

Mary's family update

Hello everyone,
A quick update on the family.......
Ken and I are doing fine
Michelle, Spencer and family are doing fine........putting up a fence so the kids can play in the yard without Mom yelling at them (Zachary said that)
Nancy, Tim and family are fine.......
Brian and Sarah are doing fine (as far as I know), Brian will be happy with his exam is over this week, then he can enjoy life again until the next one.
Shawn, Heather and family will be ok. Shawn is doing pretty good, getting better and stronger each day. He goes in Fri to have x-rays and stitches out. Hopefully then we will know more. But last night (while we were in Kasson at Shawn's house) Jordyn was playing with a friend/neighbor boy, and she fell into the corner of the living room wall. So Heather made a trip to the ER (with Stacey, the neighbor) and Jordyn needed 3 staples in her head. Heather said she is just getting to know the ER way too well!!!!!
Hopefully this will be the last of Heather visits to the ER........I know that she does not like that place.
Plan on seeing everyone/or most of you on Saturday at Matt & Liz's
love to all

Mother's Day

to all you moms & moms to be.............

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY !!!!!!!

enjoy your day, and may all of you have a great day with your child/children or your grandchildren, and if you can't be with your children, hopefully you will still have a great day.

Friday morning

wanted to let everyone know that early this morning Shawn rolled his work truck. He's currently in the Worthington, MN hospital. We're told he's alert with serious injuries but not life-threatening. Ken and Mary have both taken off already to drive with Heather to Worthington to be with Shawn. Please keep the family in your thoughts today. We'll keep you posted.

Happy Anniversary!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY DALE & BARB!!!!!!!!!

don't know what you have planned, but hope you have a great day........

Happy Anniversay!!!!!!

Please Contribute!

Hi all,
I don't know about the rest of you, but I really like hearing what Bob and Julie are doing. So maybe they would like to hear what some of us are doing, so come on people and get some posting going. Just a quick note about what you are up to, what you have done, what some of the cousins are up to, how the babies are growing, vacation plans, summer plans, how the garden is growing.........I don't care what you write about. But lets some more news going. Hey, Gabby and Barb, I heard you were in Vegas for a wedding..........

P.S. cousins can also post, it's not just for your parents........

Bob's Splack!

Hello again,

I thought I would send you a picture of the "splack"
that Bob caught last spring. He and a friend went up
to one of the small lakes just west of Cheyenne. It
was cold, windy and rainy. About the only fish you
can catch up there are some small rainbows, but they
were bored and thought they would give it a try. Well
Bob hooked onto this big one on about second cast of
the day. He never got another bite. I took a lot of
pictures of it in case he ever wanted to get a
reproduction made. We did go fishing a couple of
weekends ago up at Glendo State Park. We got the boat
on the water at about 5:00 pm and took it out at about
1:30. We didn't get home until around 5:am, that sure
makes a long day. But, it was a really great night
for fishing. We took home 16 walleye between the
three of us ranging in size from 1 to 4 pounds. We
didn't get to go out last weekend because it was
SNOWING, but Bob plans on getting the boat out again
this weekend.

I'll let you know if we catch anything.

Julie

Bob says.........(from Julie)

Hello All, I thought that I would send you some pictures of Bob and his hunting dog Abbie. He got her when she was only eight weeks old and trained her to hunt himself. He did get some pointers from a friend of ours that used to train field dogs. Bob is real proud of her and how well she hunts. He started taking her pheasant hunting when she was only four months old, and last fall was the first year she went out on her own without Bob's other dog. Abbie had to track down and catch the second bird that they got the day the one picture was taken. Bob had only wounded it and it flew quite a ways before setting down. Abbie chased it the whole way and caught it just before it tried to fly. She did the same thing with the third bird they got that day. As you can see from some of these picutres Bob really babies her. She likes to sit on his lap and watch TV with him. (He has an 80 pound lap dog.)

Mary's family

Hi family,
The first picture is one that was taken at Christmas of Ken and myself........just thought I would share it with everyone.
The second picture is Brian and Sarah with Tessie and Millie, Tessie is the one by Sarah, and they have had her for about a year, Millie joined the family after the first of the year. Chicago buildings are in the background, they were looking out at Lake Michigan.

News from Bob and Julie!

Hello All,Bob thought I should email you and let you know aboutthe vacation that we are planning this year. Unfortunately we will miss the reunion this year because we are flying out of Denver on July 1st on ourway to Anchorage. We are going with some friends ofours. They have a son that lives in Kenai Alaska andhe has invited us up to go salmon and halibut fishingthis summer. We will fly into Ancorage on the 1st andhe will pick us up at the airport and drive us down toKenai. We will stay for 10 days flying back on the10th. While we are they he plans on taking us salmonfishing on the Kenai river. The salmon run should bein full swing at the time. He also plans to take ushalibut fishing on his ocean boat. When we aren'tdoing that he plans on taking us on a tour through thenational park. He said that they recently put a newroad in that takes us right through the center of thepark and we should be able get up real close to allthe wildlife. This is Bob's dream vacation and wehave been planning it for several months now. It isthe chance of a lifetime for us and we can't wait forJuly to get here.Sorry we have to miss the reunion. Bob and Julie

from Ann

Liz had surgery last Friday April 21, appendicitis, doing fine now. She went home Saturday.
Lucky it happened last week and not the weekend of their reception. Going to Crystals tomorrow, she's having a birthday party for her kids. Kaden is one and Josie is three.

Hayes family reunion

when; Saturday June 30, 2007
where: Meadow Park, Stewartville, MN
come anytime- someone will be at the park by 9 am, so show up early Pot Luck Lunch - eat about 11.30