Shop Hop

Well - Erick and I started out on the adventure of obtaining those quilt squares. We were able to make it to the three shops in Elk River/Rogers and then the one all the way out in Shakopee today. I think this was my favorite as it is a renovated old train station - very interesting. Tonight as we head to friends for dinner we are going to hit up the two shops in White Bear Lake. Erick has really gotten into the stores - after the third one he commented on how much fun he was having :).

Next friday afternoon we are planning to get the 2 stores that are practically right out our front door and then move more into the Cities for some stops. I of course will hit up those in St. Cloud next week when I am there for work.

Erick is hoping the squares he has picked up will earn him a few extra "favorite" son-in-law points as they are for mom.

Mom, Aunt Mary, Uncle Ken, Aunt Ann and Aunt Linda - have a great time as you start your adventure. Drive safe.

If you make it close to our house (Calla Lily Quilt Shop and Gifts, Inc. and Fat Quarter Quilt Shop) on a different weekend give us a call - we would love to show off our home.

Kim

Ann's news

Thanks to Gabby, I got 70 quarts and 18 pints of green beans canned this week. I had told him at the reunion I had not gotten any planted and he knew of a farmer with a "few" acres of them.
I should not have picked that last pail. When we got back to Wykoff after picking beans I got the mail. I got notice to show up for jury duty in St Paul 7:30 am on August 2. I told Roger he may have to go with me and help me find quilt shops in the metro area while I'm there. I wonder if there will be time?? Well it would be something he could do while I sit in court, yeah right!
Anyway looking forward to the SE shophop next Saturday with Linda, Barb, and Mary & Ken, it should be alot of fun. Hope you all have a good week.

Shawn and Alex

This morning at 8:00 a send-off was held at the Peace Plaze for 36 scouts ages 12 to 17 from 14 cities in this region and from various troops. Alex is one of the 36. The scouts are heading to the National Scout Jamboree in Fredericksburg, VA. The Jamboree will last 10 days and include everything from rock climbing to scuba diving and traditionally the President of the US speaks at the event. Alex's troop will do alot of sight seeing on the way to and on the way home from the Jamboree, a stop in Washington D.C. to tour the Capital, the Pentagon, White House, monuments. The stops will also include the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio, Kings Dominion water park and Hershey Park. This is an awesome adventure for Alex and I'm very happy that he is able to go.
Shawn left on Saturday morning and drove out with other adult staff members. Shawn is on staff there, which I know he will enjoy, he just won't have the site seeing possibilies that Alex has. Shawn attended the National Jamboree as a scout also, so he knows how interesting this will be for Alex.
The Boy Scouts are celebrating their 100 year anniversay, and this is the last year the Jamboree will be held at Fort A.P. Hill, an Army installation near Fredericksbury, VA. The Jamboree is held only every 4th year.

Storms

WOW! What a wild night of storms here in the Cities. Erick and I were driving home in some pretty tough downpours and straight line winds when the tornado sirens went off. Several tornado sightings and a couple of touchdowns by Erick's mom and some friends in the St. Francis/East Bethel area. Thankfully we made it home and in the basement before anything too serious happened. Several tree branches down, a couple of big trees cracked in half and a neighbors tent shelter blown into the street.
Kim

Hi Everyone,
Just a note to let you know that today I went on a yarn shop trip with some of the knitters that knit on Monday/Wednesday/and every other Saturday. We had a great time and visited about 5 different yarn shops. Had a great time and enjoyed all the different shops we stopped at and and then had lunch and then on the way back home we stopped for a Dairy Queen in Cannon Falls.

Spent all my stash that I took for yarn, but still have money for the quilt shop hop in a couple of weeks!

Also wanted to let you know that my garden is really beginning to grow great! I keep picking cherry tomatoes just about every other day, and I see that tomorrow I will need to pick green beans and get them canned. Looks like every thing is coming all great. I have some bell peppers that won't be too long before they are ready too. Well, guess that's all for know. If I had some pictures of my garden, I would send them along, but don't.

Barb

Wyoming News

Hello everyone.
Hope you all had a safe and fun fourth. Not a lot going on here. bob has been working a lot of overtime which really cuts into his play time. He did get to go fishing a couple of times last week, which really made him happy. Glendo has been flooding so fishing is really hard right now. It was at 70 percent over flood stage, so it had a lot of water in it. It is down to only 50 percent over flood so it is slowly going down.

One exciting thing that happened tonight is that Bob was shooting and sighting in the new barrel on his TC and I don't know how you would describe it, but his gun I guess you would say it blew up..... I am sending pictures so you can see what I mean. I got home from work and he told me that what had happened. Of course he was home by himself. Some days....if you know what I mean. I guess we were really lucky that he didn't get hurt and that the gun didn't really blow, it just I guess you would say cracked. There is a spent shell in the gun and he can't get the gun open to get it out.

Other than that pretty boring around here. He is hoping to go fishing Saturday after he gets off work, but then again, he did break his boat last time he had it out. I think he is on a roll. He is going to take the part he broke to work tomorrow and have the guys there fabricate him a new stainless steel one. Then he shouldn't be able to break it, hopefully.

Well, guess I had better go.

Julie

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Sending lots of wonderful wishes for a very Happy Birthday to Mom. Hope you are having a great day at the fair.
I love you - you're the best!

Also, a very Happy Birthday to those who share the month of July (already past and yet to come).

PS - thanks Michelle for helping me figure this thing out :)

Kim

Quiet Evening???

The airplanes were not co-operating with Michelle today. She should have landed in the Cities at 5:55pm, instead she landed closer to 8 this evening. It is now 9:15 and we are waiting for her to get here, so the quiet evening wasn't to be.
But we had a great day with Dakota and Connor. After supper this evening we walked to McDonald's for an ice cream cone. I'm not sure who enjoyed it more, Dakota or Connor? He was making sure he got his share!
I guess any day spent with the grandchildren is a great day.

It sounds like Dale and Barb had a good day. Sometimes the simple plans and unplanned stops make for the best days.
Mary

Good Morning, it's Saturday

I hope you are all enjoying this beautiful Saturday!!!! Ken and I are enjoying it with Dakota and Connor. They helped me mow the front lawn this morning, then we all took a walk together. Dakot and Connor are spending the day with us, because Michelle is still in Ohio for a convention and Spencer and Zarchary headed out to overnight cub scout camp this morning. Michelle will be home later this evening to pick up the children and head home. So, I'm sure that this evening Ken and I will just spend a quiet evening at home.
I heard by the grapevine that Dale and Barb headed out this morning to pick blueberries!!! I hope they have really good luck and that the blueberries are tasty!!!
Mary

Good Morning

I really don't thing we need to have "news" to post on the blog. The blog is just a way of see what everyone (the family) is doing day to day. So thinking that way........Ken and I made 2 batches of freezer raspberry jam Wed night. Nancy and Conrad picked raspberries at the neighbors house and left them here for jam. Later Ken and I picked more, so we had enought for 2 batches and I have 10 jars of assorted sizes to enjoy this winter.
Have a great day
Mary

Ann's news

I really don't have any "news" but we are hoping to get our boat in the water later this week. I had a week off in June and it rained all week. I have this week off and they forcast rain for most of the week. Thursday and Friday may be good. I had a fishing license last year and never used it, Roger bought licenses early this year and we still have not used them. Matt thinks we should sell our boat, I told him not yet!!
Anyway, tonight I read my horoscope for tomorrow and I think it is quite wise. It says " No matter how considerate the occupant, a renter will never care about his house as much as a homeowner. Keep this in mind when someone asks you how much you want to invest in a job or a relationship." Lord, may we all take "ownership" of our lives, families, and relationships so when it is judgement day we can be proud of the way we lived.
God bless us all and take care. It was great seeing all who were able to make it to the reunion. Oh, and congratulations to Dan and Jodi on the birth of their daughter Claire. She was born June 1st, if some of the cousins did not get a birth announcement or hear about Claire's birth yet.

Fishing and Boating!

Here's Zach BIG fish! Both Zach and Dakota caught and reeled in fish at exactly the same time...boy did we hit the right spot on Lake Zumbro!

Dakota just HAD TO HAVE this really cute PINK fishing pole - so she could catch pink fish!

Both kids thought it was pretty cool to catch BIG ONES.

Here's the first catch on our boating trip today! Poor Spencer..as soon as I took the photo, the fish decided to cut loose and take off! The look on Spencer's face was priceless...worth $10,000 if we would have had a video camera!

Summer Fun

Just one more Shawn! The kids, both young and old enjoyed our own little show of fireworks.

Here's Conrad, Dakota and Jordyn hanging out on the swingset waiting to watch the fireworks show!

Here's Nancy and Norrie...

and Tim and Dad...trying to be funny :)

Family Reunion

Here's fishing at the family reunion in Lanesboro. I know my kids enjoyed it!

Monday, July 5

After the 4th of July, comes the 5th of July. And since this years 4th was a Sunday, the 5th was still a holiday for some people. Spencer and Michelle invited Ken and I to spend the day with them boating. We got on the lake about noon today, and enjoyed a sandwich while cuising around. Spencer dropped the anchor, so Zach and Dakota could do some fishing (Ken and I actually have a fishing license this year!!!) Spencer was the lucky one to get the first fish, but it got away right as the picture was taken(kinda of like the funnest home movies)........I pulled a small one on Ken's line. But when both Zach and Dakota got a bite at the same time, there some excitment. Zach got the biggest fish, he was so excited. A few more were caught, Michelle has pictures of the kids with the fish...maybe she will share those. But Ken and I took this picture at home, just to show you what we got....it is a 12" ruler laying at the top of the fish. The top fish is Zach's. Zach was looking like a real fisherman out there, he was having a ball throwing his line out.

Way to go Zach!!!

the Peters's Fourth of July

I hope everyone had a good and safe holiday. Ken and I started the day with going to church, after that we just putz around the house until mid afternoon. The we headed to Tim and Nancy's prairie to have a family holiday. Tim had the garage cleared out and Michelle (who was suppost to be in Stewartville for the day, but that got rained out) set up her easy-up tent, so we didn't mind the little shower that passed thru while we were eating. We had a big fire going, so s'mores was the dessert of the evening. Shawn was the master of fireworks. The children were telling Shawn to start shotting fireworks about 6....he started a little early with some teasers, and we finished about 10ish. We could see other fireworks in the distant and on the horizon, so unlike Rochester, some towns must have had fireworks. It was a wonderful time being all together (except for Brian and Sarah) for the holiday and much better than sitting with a hugh crowd of people waiting for the oohs and aahs.
Michelle and Nancy had cameras, so maybe they will post a couple pictures.