Happy Birthday and Father's Day

Last Sunday we celebrated Fathers day and our dear father's Birthday:)

Grant doing weapons kata

Eleanor doing her kata

Erik and Stuart doing kata

Evin sparring

19th annual Tom Hall classic karate tournament

Last Saturday our family and some of the other members of Kazoku Budokan, headed up to southern Milwaukee for Hall Sensie's 19th annual classic karate tournament. Our dojo took home about 31 trophies plus one grand champion for kata.

Grant got a first in sparring

Stuart third for kata

Ele hangin' out watching all the other competitors

Some of the guys comparing weapons

Over all everyone had a good time... and looks forward to the next one.

Pastors camp in Tennessee

Last Saturday Marlin had the opportunity to go to Tennessee for a pastors camp.

Here he is with Pinkie his faithful travelling companion, that he takes with him on his trips and takes pictures of for Maggie.

Some of the guys recording one of the "basement tapes"

the guys talking

the front entrince of the cabin/lodge

the road leading up to the camp

Its Gotch'ya Day!!

Yes two years ago today Eleanor, Erik, and Maggie joined our family :o)

thanksgiving 2008

all the grand kids

uncle joey reading

the best kind of turkey...turkey with chocolate

smile....miss Eleanor

putting a puzzle together

maggie is 4

she huffed and puffed and blew the coconut off :)

helping decorate the cake

a few sundays ago

A few sundays ago we had some friend over for another "Food, Fire, and Fun"

Thank you Carlsons for the beautiful flowers.
~smile
~talking around the fire.

After it got dark we all came inside and played a few rounds of telephone charades, breaking teams up into parents vs. kids. Later on the kids went upstairs to play whonoou.

Thanks all for coming.

20 years and a day

20 years and a day they made a covenant with God and each other. God bless you both.
Happy Anniversary

friends fire and fun

After church Sunday we had some families over. Well were planning on sitting around by the bonfire buuuttt....the October winds quickly swept that idea away.

we also a new version of volleyball called "windy ball" it is exactly the same as the original way but with an element of surprise added in .lol

thanks guys for coming

Evin is 11

-HAPPY BIRTHDAY EVIN-


Wow, just 11 and already smoking sausage =o)

whats been happening

-the new look no more braces for grant. Monday he went and got them off and he is enjoying the freedom of being able to eat what ever he wants (with in reason of coarse:)-Birthday Girl

last Saturday we celebrated miss Eleanor's 9 birthday
sisters
the new style hat for fall (I think it will just the thing for rainy days)

-Baby Bird the 5 younger kids where playing outside the other day and found a baby bird. Stuart and Evin have been feeding it and taking care of it for the past week.

-No more purple we have been painting our living room.
So after 2 coats of primer and three coats of paint and many hours of work, we now have a very yellow room :)

smile (remember Grant this is fun)