Sharon's family

Just talked to Jennifer Carney and heard what was happening in Moorhead. Sharon's neighborhood was evacuated last Wed night. David's family shortly afterthat, so David took Jenny and children to the lake. Sharon is at Jodi's house with the grandchildren (Jodi's house is in the middle of town and safe). Jennifer and Rich got water in the basement so will have to redo the basement, and has sand bags in the front of their house. Their neighbor lost the battle a couple days ago, so it is getting closer. But as of right now, everyone is SAFE.
Jennifer was also saying how they dug up the playground (at the school where she teaches) to fill more sand bags. And that soccer fields, etc are being ripped up to use the dirt for dikes (is that the correct spelling?) It must be pretty emotional to see everything that is happening in your home town.

Bob's Pictures

whelping shed

whelping bed

Abbie by the deck

Stevens' family update

Everyone is doing great at the Stevens' household. When Zach started school this year, both Zachary and Dakota started at a new daycare in Kasson. They both love their new daycare, but miss Grandma's house too.

Zach is in Kindergarten and enjoying school very much. He's been on a couple field trips with school. He recently finished another year of hockey - which he enjoys! Zachary is very excited to try out T-Ball this spring.

What to say about Dakota....she strives very hard to get under Zach's skin and irritate him. She's getting really good at that. Keep telling Zach that his little sister loves him very much and only wants to be with him 24/7.....she has a hard time understanding that she can't always go with Zach to a friend's house. She's definately my little helper - most days!

There's no school on Friday - I'm joining the kids at daycare on Friday and we're going to the water park in Owatonna. Both kids are really looking forward to that!

We also found out recently that Aunt Becky (Spencer's Sister) and Uncle Jeff are expecting their second child in August. The kids are looking forward to a new cousin to visit and play with.

Have you noticed the photo yet? Look closer.....Zach and Dakota are pretty excited about the upcoming addition to our household too :)

Bob's Weekend

Well this has been a really busy weekend. Bob's dog, Abbie, is going to have puppies in a couple of weeks, so we spent the weekend getting her whelping shed and bed all ready to go. It was a lot of work, but we think it turned out really nice. Bob is really honing his carpentry skills lately.
It was a gorgeous weekend to be outside (it was over 60 degrees yesterday, and the same today. The bad thing is we are supposed to get a snowstorm starting tonight and on into late Monday or early Tuesday. We are supposed to get about 6 inches of snow with the wind blowing at 25 to 35 miles an hour. Talk about a change in the weather! Maybe it will snow so much that they will close the roads and we won't have to go to work!!!!Oh well, it will melt and be out of here by next weekend.
Hope everyone is good.
Bob and Julie

PS. there are pictures and I will get them up later today, sorry

Pickled Fish and Birthday Wishes

Our update this week is about Mark. A few weeks ago he made a batch of pickled fish and it was time to open it this week. He did an excellent job!! He took about a half gallon to work and it was all gone at the end of the shift. When he told us it went over well, we opened the jar that was in our fridge and found out it was good! Mark and Nicholas plan on going to the Eagle Center today to see Eagles and get in some spring fishing so he can start another batch.
Don't want to forget to wish all the March birthday people out there a Happy Birthday (some are belated). Thought about each of you on your birthday just neglected to call or send out wishes to some. So hope you had or will have a bessed and happy birthday with many more to come.
Happy Spring to us all!!!!

More Pictures

All of the pucks on the ice

Jordyn Bowling

The ball!

Shawn and Alex bowling

Alex's Birthday

Yuumy Cupcakes!

I am not very good at posting the pictures, so bear with me on that. This past weekend Alex turned 12.........hard to believe he is that old already! And that makes me even older (yikes). We had the family over to our house Saturday night for a little get together and here are some pictures from then. The next day, Sunday, Alex had a friend party at the bowling alley in Byron. For Christmas, Alex had gotten a bowling ball and this was only the 4th time he had used it. Some of his friends were using it as well and when one of them threw the ball down and it hit the pins, the ball broke!!!!! The guy working at the bowling alley had to climb in by the pins to get the pieces. It broke in to 3 bigger sized pieces. Noone had ever seen that happen before. Crazy!!!!!

After the bowling we went to an Owatonna Express Jr Hockey game. It is like the Ice Hawks (if anyone is familiar with them) except a lot cleaner hockey. They have a game that you can play between 2nd and 3rd period. You buy a puck and then throw it on the ice towards the 3 buckets they have out there. The 3 closest pucks win some kind of gift certificate. They also have an on-going competition to get a puck INSIDE one of the buckets. The jackpot grows each game until someone gets it. They said noone had gotten it yet this year. Well.............not anymore! As I was helping Jordyn throw her pucks, Alex is jumping up and down telling us that his went in. Me, being the nice mom, didn't believe him at first. But, it did.........Happy Birthday Alex! He decided to save the money and put it away for next summer.

Alex was selected to go to Fort AP Hill in Virginia next summer to be with close to 42,000 other Boy Scouts at the National Jamboree. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity for him to be gone for almost 3 weeks. There are 36 kids from all over SE MN that will board a bus and go out East. On the way, they will stop and be tourists! So, Alex has been fundraising and trying to earn extra money to pay for his trip.

I will post some more pictures of the bowling and hockey game. Hope everyone has enjoyed this nice weather. Hopefully this afternoon is nice, too. Jordyn has been wanting to get her bike out, so Shawn is going to take off the training wheels while she is at daycare today and they are going to see how that goes this afternoon. I will see if they are still trying the 2-wheel thing when I get home and get some pictures of it.