I Heart Faces: People's Choice

This week's challenge at I Heart Faces is People's Choice and they have asked to enter your Best Face Photo of the Summer. I decided on the above photo of my Grandpa Kruschel holding his Great Grandson, Elliott. We were getting ready to head out from our annual "Kruschel/Waska" Family picnic and Great Grandpa was getting one last snuggle of Baby E. I absolutely LOVE the smile on my grandpa's face as he is checks out the newest family member!

I Heart Faces

Life just goes right on ticking...

This summer was completely, incredibly CrAzY! It is over; it was full of family adventures (a few trips to Duluth, our annual Lanesboro Family Vacation, a week-long trip to Hayward, among them...) and family heartaches (Grant's Grandma Dorothy's passing after having a heart attack and having to put down our beloved dog Mr. Pibb, who had lymphoma). We are finally getting back into what feels like a "normal" routine around here...although the next few weeks are jam packed with life. That is such a blessing, life continues...it has to!

I Heart Faces: Touch of Sun Photo

To my little man Brendan, there is nothing better than riding a train. In fact, he tells me quite frequently that he wants to drive a train to the North Pole to get presents for everyone...LOVE IT! Here he was in all the great riding-a-train glory on the 4th of July 2010. Just a hint of the bright sunlight beaming down on him; the train car we rode in was used in the movie "Iron Will" and is pretty old. I've posted it today for this weeks' "I Heart Faces" photo contest...check them out by clicking the link below...

Happy Tuesday!



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Piece of Scrap

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Update...in pictures

We celebrated B's 3rd B-Day at the end of May with a Pirate themed party. I made the cake!

Riding his new tractor!

Snuggling brothers...B LOVES being a big brother and wants to hold E whenever he can.

B and his buddy-since-birth Ben at the Princeton Splash Pad! Ben's mom and I were in Childbirth class together, due around the same time and we both had our boys a month early. It's been so much fun to watch the boys grow up together!

I LOVE this picture. Elliott's middle name is Frederick, after my dad's middle name. (Brendan's is Alan after Grant's dad's middle name...we've got a pattern going on here ;D) My dad's middle name is for his dad's brother, Frederick, who we call Fritz. Here are all 3 Fredericks together! Fritz was so excited when my dad told him about Elliott's middle name and he couldn't be happier to get a little snuggle time with him at our recent family reunion. Great-Great Uncle Fritz and Great-Great Aunt Dee Dee were calling E "Snickle Fritz" and cooing at him all the while! :D

Oh so busy with 2!

Whew...life is busy with 2 boys in the house. (Pretty sure that's now going to be the theme of my blog ;D) I'm very happy to report that we are still doing great here at the Lindberg Household. E has been a very easy baby; I am so lucky! We had his 2 week appointment on Monday, which went very well. At birth, Elliott weighed 7 lbs. 7 oz., when we left the hospital he was 7 lbs. 4 oz. and at his 2 week appointment he was 8 lbs. 10 oz.!!! He is definitely a good eater and thriving here at home. He is now 20 1/2 inches long (19 at birth); the appointment was quick as he is a happy, healthy little boy :D

Me and my boys...I set up my tripod to get this picture of me taken with the boys. Sometimes a mom's gotta do what a mom's gotta do!

A couple of weeks ago, we had my sister and her kids up to play and meet Elliott. It was great fun watching B, Layney and Liam all playing together and Layney LOVED holding her baby cousin!

On Sunday we took B out to fly his first kite. It was the perfect weather for it and we all had a blast.

Brendan is a great big brother! He is so helpful when I need him to be and he LOVES his baby brother. He's always telling us "He's so cute!" and "We have a happy baby!". I really can't wait until they can really play together...I can already picture them both doing silly things to make each other giggle. :D

That's my quick update for today. Gotta get B outside to enjoy this BEAUTIFUL weather!

A wonderful Mother's Day!

This is how my Mother's Day started today. Brendan had to hold his baby right away this morning and I got this super cute picture on my ipod :D. Things are going great having Elliott at home and we are slowly getting into a routine here. We have been very lucky that, with the exception of 2 nights last week, he is sleeping fairly well at night for a newborn. I will post more later...Happy Mother's Day to all :D

T-Minus 4 days...

We are on the final days of the "Baby-Boy-#2" countdown!!! If he does not decide to come on his own (and really, I don't think he will...this one is all tucked up and cozy in my huge tummy), I will be induced at 7 a.m. on Friday morning. That's this Friday, April 29th!!! Day of the Royal Wedding and, more importantly, Grant's Grandpa Jerry's Birthday :D

We had a fantastic Easter Sunday. We decided to start the festivities early this year in hopes that Brendan would make it through the church service with little craziness. Grant and I got up around 5:50 a.m., got the cameras ready to go and then got B up. He jumped out of bed and excitedly found a basket with candy in it, then we "helped" him find the "hidden" Easter Eggs that the Easter Bunny had left around the house. He also got a Playmobil Pirate playset which he has had a great time playing with since he opened it up yesterday morning!

Brendan and his Easter Basket :D

We then got dressed for church; this year I followed some blog tutorials to make him a vest and bowtie. If I do say so myself, they turned out pretty CUTE! I made them using a ladies seersucker skirt (the green and white stripes) and linen shirt (for the inside lining) that I found at the Shalom Shop! I've never attempted to sew something like this before, but I was very happy with the results. I used the following tutorials: Make it Love it Vest instructions, etc... and Dana Made It for the pattern, which I adjusted to fit B better; Prudent Baby for the bowtie.

Brendan in his Easter outfit.

We decided to go to Grant's Grandma Dorothy's church for their Easter festivities this year. We did the early 7:30 a.m. service (Pastor Keith at Calvary Lutheran at Rush Point keeps it short and sweet, so nice when you have a sugared up 2 1/2 year old in the pew next to you!!!) and then had a nice breakfast at the church (eggs, sausage, pancakes, juice and rolls). After breakfast there was a quick Easter Egg hunt. So much fun! I don't have the pictures, yet, but Brendan's good friend Hannah also goes to Grandma Dorothy's church, so we have some cute pictures of the two of them together in their Easter finest :D After church, we checked out the scene at Rush Lake and then headed over to Grandma and Grandpa Lindberg's for the day. The Easter Bunny also left eggs and toys for B to find over there. He was one busy Bunny this year!

This is one of my favorite shots from the day...see how HUGE my tummy is. My back is non-too-happy right about now and my fingers and feet are so swollen no matter how much water I drink a day, but it's almost over!!!

We had a wonderful day and LOVED the gorgeous weather. While B did not get his usual 3 hour nap...he did fall asleep last night at around 8:15 p.m. and slept through the night.

My nesting instincts have been in full bloom and my house thanks me for it...all of the bedrooms have been dusted and vacuumed, the living room and sun room are clean and vacuumed and the kitchen is getting to be close to spotless. B and I will be heading outside to play today and tackle some of the post-winter clean up of the yard. Not too much, though...I get pretty tired very quickly!

That's all for now folks...

Getting Crafty

Thanks to a scrapbooking/Facebook friend, I stumbled upon the very addictive world of crafting blogs. Very dangerous, but very fun! Since that time, I have begun to follow a plethora of talented crafty bloggers to get ideas for some really fun crafts. (I'm up to 19 blogs so far with new ones popping up every day...) I've made a few projects for some crafty fun:


Brendan's Tool belt ala Make it and Love it


A Wonderpets Cape ala Sprout Online

Thrift store shirts into...
A girl's spring outfit...I used this tutorial to make the skirt Make it and Love it and took tips from a few different blogs for the fabric flowers on the "broach".

I'm entering this outfit in Family Pathways' Re-purposing Contest! Wish me luck ;D

I have a few more projects that I'm also working on/beginning work on:

1. a Pirate Vest for B...he's so into Pirates right now (thanks to Disney Junior's new show "Jake and the Neverland Pirates")

2. This vest: Make it and Love it - Reversible Vest for B for Easter. I found a women's seer sucker green and white skirt and a white linen shirt at the Shalom Shop (church run thrift store in town) for a grand total of $3 to use for this project. My sister made her son one and liked how it turned out...can't wait to start on mine! I'm also going to make B a bow-tie from this tutorial here: Delia Creates - Li'l Mister Bowtie

3. These hot and cold packs from Just Another Hang up. The Chick-sicle and the Love Bird

Stay tuned for other great ideas from the crafty blog world...I am OBSESSED!!!

:D

Random Stuff

*This past week was BRUTAL! B had a cold starting late the week before, and by Monday night was running a very high fever (105 an hour after giving him a bath and ibuprofen). We called into the clinic and they had us give him 1/2 tsp. more of the ibuprofen and 1 1/2 tsp. of Tylenol...wait 30 minutes and see if that brought the fever down. It did thankfully...and it looked like it was gone the next morning. Tuesday late afternoon=more fever (luckily nothing as high as the night before and the meds were doing their job of bringing it down), then Wednesday morning no fever, but after lunch = fever shot back up to 103.5. I brought him in to the same day clinic as it was just not going away (he also had a very runny nose, watery, bloodshot eyes and a bad cough). We went in and the Doctor checked him out. She was saying that she wouldn't be able to determine what was wrong with him until after he had had the fevers for 48 hours...I told her that it had been 48 hours and she immediately ordered all the gambit of tests. We got to do a strep test, blood draw and chest x-rays. We went back to see the doctor and she said the tests didn't really show anything. Go home and keep giving him the ibuprofen/Tylenol, but come back tomorrow if his fever reaches anything over 102.5. So we went home. Around 4:45 she called us and wanted us to come right in to get a urine sample. We went right in...and just barely got enough pee in the cup for the test (I'm thankful that we have been "working" on potty training with B...he's not totally getting it yet, but he knows at least what to do when he's on the potty). We went back to the Doctor's office and waited for the test to come back. There were levels of things in his urine that suggested he was fighting some type of infection somewhere, so we left with a prescription in hand. And get this...It is is FIRST EVER PRESCRIPTION. Weird, crazy huh?!? I can't believe we made it almost 3 years without one prescription for this little boy!!! We are very blessed with a healthy child, that's for sure. :D And the antibiotics have done their job. He hasn't had a fever since Thursday night and he is definitely feeling better!!!

*Both Grant and I also caught whatever B had, but not as bad...

*We are 3-5 weeks away from adding the newest Lindberg to the family. We're still narrowing down names, getting the nursery ready and I've been cleaning out a few closets around here to fill out my general nesting instincts!

*I am obsessed with blogs right now that have tutorials for re-purposing/sewing/making fun things for kids. I have a few projects brewing in my brain right now that just want to be made...hopefully I can get one done this week to enter in the Re-purposing Contest at Family Pathways!

*B, Grant and I are all DYING to go to Disney World.

*B is also obsessed with Target (the store), Pirates, Lego guys, Trains, Dinosaurs, helping to bake things in the kitchen and just about anything else that catches his eye day to day right now.

*B's sense of humor has really taken wing lately. Last night we found him in his playroom, watching a movie with his diaper on his head...A few weekends ago, his nose was runny and out of nowhere he says "Hey, get back here nose!" and giggled at himself...He's also told me to turn down my music in the car "Cause I can't read my choo-choo paper!"; while I was laughing hysterically he said "I funny, mommy?". Yes you are little buddy, yes you are!

31 Weeks...

I am now 31 weeks along in my second pregnancy. It's too early yet, but I am so ready to be done being pregnant! It feels like I've been pregnant FOREVER this time around for some strange reason. I think it has to do with the fact that I've had gestational diabetes for most of the pregnancy. Watching most all of the things that I put in my mouth...counting the number of carb choices I can have per meal. And I'm SOOOO hungry all the time, I feel like this time around. I have been walking on the treadmill at least 4-5 times a week to help control the GD, but I still need to take insulin before I go to bed at night to help with my "fasting" blood sugar numbers in the morning. Since I am taking insulin, I will be induced at around 38 weeks for sure. Brendan decided to come on his own on the first day of my 36 week...so, I have between 5 to 7 weeks we figure before this baby is born. WHEW I am so not ready!!! ;D

I cannot wait for Brendan to meet his new brother. We have yet to figure out a name of our second bundle of joy, but as B informed me this afternoon "We figure it out at hospital." He's just too smart sometimes! :D On the Brendan front, he is now in his big boy bedroom and the switch has been great. We decided to leave the "nursery" as the "nursery" (a bedroom right across the hall from our room) and to move B to the extra bedroom just down the hall. It took some cleaning and rearranging, but it is done and he loves his new room. We are looking forward to him starting preschool in the fall...got him all signed up and in the morning section we were hoping for at Cambridge. He is so excited and so am I. He will even have a few of his best friends in the same section (hopefully the same class, too!) and us mommies will be able to get a much needed break and "mommy time" on Tues/Thurs this fall.

Ramblings on Monday

It's been a couple of weeks since my last post. I just do not know where in the world time goes?! Add to that the fact that baby #2 is T-minus 2 1/2 months away from DD-day (that's due date day!) and it's all I can do NOT to freak out. Freaking out aside, we are enjoying the winter weather with lots of love in our house and fun activities going on all the time.

Some things we have been up to recently include:

Playing games of Muppets Yahtzee, in which B ALWAYS wins. My sister-in-laws family gave this to us for Christmas and we have had so much fun "teaching" Brendan how to play the game. He loves it and in his second game, first two turns, rolled back to back Yahtzees!!!

I finally finished a cape project that I have been thinking about doing for Brendan since before Christmas. This is a "Wonderpets" cape from one of B's favorite T.V. shows of the same name. He's been running around the house making all sorts of flying noises and terrorizing the dog :D

Another project that I just completed using my *gasp* sewing machine is this toolbelt. I stumbled upon a great blog that has tutorials for all sorts of sewing/re-purposing projects and just HAD to make this one right away! (if you are interested in this sort of thing...the site is http://www.makeit-loveit.com/ )

We made a trip down to the Children's Museum a couple of weeks ago with a bunch of friends and Brendan had the time of his life. Running from exhibit to exhibit, playing with everything he could get his hands on. He especially liked being able to draw on his own face! Look at how much he was concentrating on getting it just right :D

Hanging out in our jammies with slippers on is a must around here. Every morning, Brendan enjoys helping me make breakfast. He gets his "stool" and we put it in his spot. Then he helps me to carry an egg from the fridge, being careful not to drop it. He chats away as I crack the eggs (sometimes he gets a chance to do that too) and cook the eggs. It is the one meal in the day that I know he will eat the whole thing of, which is wonderful :D

So, that is our life as it stands right now. This Friday I have my monthly baby doctor appointment. After this one, I will be going in every 2 weeks until the baby decides he's ready to see the world. So unbelievably crazy that I'm that far along already!

Baby #2...

And it's a BOY!

First set of pics are of the face and profile, second set of pics are the foot and hand and the last pic is the $$$ Shot (it actually shows part of the umbilical cord along with the "boy part" :D).

We are so excited to be adding another little boy to our testosterone filled house! Brendan can't wait to play choo-choos, watch Spiderman and play games with his little brother. We have yet to figure out a name, but we're not too worried about it at this point.

I am now 23 weeks along and have been doing great. I have gestational diabetes again, but is has been controlled with diet, exercise and now a little bit of insulin before I go to bed at night. Since I'm doing the insulin, though, they will induce me at 38 weeks...which, if I get that far, will be Easter weekend.

At this point in my pregnancy, I have actually lost 3 pounds due to the fact that I'm dieting and exercising as much as I should. Nothing to worry about at all, as everything with the baby is great!

My Little Buzz

This wonderful costume has been hidden away in B's closet since he was about a month old. I found it at a garage sale and have been dreaming about the day he could wear it. SADLY, that day is here...it is still big on him, but it fits and he had a BLAST zooming around the house with his wings on last night. I asked him if he wanted to wear the costume for Halloween next year and he said "Yeah, Woody last year, Buzz next!"

We're gearing up here to move the Big boy into his Big Boy room. We're just a little over 3 months until the new baby will most likely be here and want to make that transition with plenty of time to adjust. He is very excited and likes to check out his big boy room whenever he can. Right now it is our DVD/CD/whatever else we can squeeze in there Storage room. We're making little baby steps in being able to move that stuff out and put him in the room. We've cleaned up part of the basement in order to figure out what else we need to move around to put the CDs and DVDs downstairs. Next we will move the rest of the stuff around in the basement, move the CDs/DVDs/ETC. downstairs and finally move B's stuff into his new room. It's pretty exciting, but nerve racking at the same time, since he does like to get up and out of his room way too early some days and we usually don't hear him...time to break out the monitor in the kitchen or something!

Well, now I'm going to post pics of the new baby from our Ultrasound we had about a month ago!!! :D

A Very Merry Christmas Indeed...

This was how Brendan wanted to "dress up" for Christmas Eve :D
My mom's side of the family all get together for Christmas Eve.

Brendan's new Misty Island Trackmaster set that Santa Claus brought him :D


Family picture before present opening at the Lindberg household :D

We had a wonderful Christmas...wishing you all a very Happy New Year!!!

A new Christmas Tradition

Brendan and Santa at Bentleyville Festival of Lights :D

My poor tuckered out boy before heading out to ride the Polar Express.

So excited to FINALLY be riding the Polar Express!

Waiting to hear the book "The Polar Express" read at the North Pole.

Brendan excited that Santa noticed his jammies with Santa's picture on it!

This past weekend we packed up (a day early due to the impending weather) and headed up to Duluth to start a new Christmas Tradition with Brendan. The North Shore Scenic Railroad does a Polar Express train excursion and we decided that our train loving boy would love to go on it. We love to visit Duluth anyways, any excuse to go up and visit is totally worth it! We arrived on Friday evening and got some dinner at Pizza Luce. LOVE PL!!! Then we decided to find Fitger's Inn and ride the train to Bentleyville. Boy was B excited! It was a nice quick trip down to Bayfront Park and we walked through the beautiful light display to find Santa Clause. B got to meet him and then it was time to head back to catch the last train of the night back to Fitgers. We are so glad that we decided to do Bentleyville the first night. B got sick early Saturday morning (some kind of quick stomach bug) and we would have missed out on going to Bentleyville if we had waited to do it Saturday night.

Saturday we pretty much laid low until about 11:30 (B had been able to keep some food down since about 9 a.m.) when we made a quick run to Miller Hill Mall and Pawn America for some Christmas Shopping. We made it back to the room and got in some naps, although B did not get a long enough one. We started to wake him up around 4:00 p.m. for our 5:00 trip on the Polar Express. He was not ready to be awake yet and was a bear to get ready, but we made it with plenty of time to spare. The hardest part of the evening was waiting outside by the waterfront for the train to show up. The winding was harsh and it was pretty chilly. He cried the whole 5 minutes we were out there until he saw the train approaching. He cheered along with the other kids who were also waiting to ride the train and was a happy, warm camper when we were able to board. The Polar Express was a lot of fun...they played songs from the movie and did a sing along of a few Christmas songs. When we made it to the North Pole (The Museum Depot), we filed in and got to see a set up of some model trains that they had set up. Then they led us into the museum where they had a magical reading of the book set up for us. There were actors who read/acted out the story and they even used a few of the trains on view at the museum for some of the parts! When Santa arrived during the story, Brendan was ready to jump out of his seat and run after him. :D After the story was over, each child was given a "sleigh bell" necklace and had a chance to visit with Santa. We did a little shopping and viewing of the model trains and then hopped back on the Polar Express to go home.

We spent the rest of the evening having dinner and soaking in the whirlpool tub in our room, which Brendan used 5 or 6 times during our stay!

We had a wonderful time on our relaxing family weekend and cannot wait to do it again next year!

Winter is surely here!

It is a beautiful, snowy day here in good 'ole Cambridge, MN and B and I took some time to bundle up and enjoy the new snow. This kid LOVES the snow, but not how it sticks to his mittens (or really wearing his mittens the correct way...he does not like his thumb away from his other fingers I guess.). It takes so long to bundle up, which is a shame when it is chilly out and the kid will not quit eating the snow, rolling in the snow and getting snow all over himself! We came in after about 10-15 minutes of play time and he was ready for a nap. Gotta love it!

In other news...I am now 17 weeks along in my 2nd pregnancy and I've already been diagnosed with gestational diabetes. YUCK! I was feeling like I had high blood sugar one morning and decided to do a blood sugar test with my home meter. It was high, so I continued to check throughout the day and over the next few days. Only my morning tests were high, but I was concerned and got in to get the first gestational diabetes test that they give pregnant ladies, which is a 1 hour glucose-screening test. I failed that one and had to do the 3 hour glucose tolerance test on last Saturday. I just got word today that I failed that test as well and will definitely have to continue with the diabetes diet that I have been trying to do, but cheating here and there, and getting in some exercise time every day. It really is not that bad of a deal when it all comes down to it. I have not gained any weight this pregnancy, yet, and with the exercise/diet that I will be following over the next 5-6 months, I will actually leave the hospital weighing less than before I was pregnant...something that I have determination to keep that way FOREVER! I am, however, a little sad that I won't get to indulge at Christmas time. :(

I hope everyone is getting into the holiday spirit out there. I know we are here at the Lindberg household :D We're gearing up to take B to Duluth in a couple of weeks to ride the Polar Express Choo Choo and see the Bentleyville Festival of lights.

Hello, hello...anyone out there?!?

I can't believe it's been almost 2 months since my last post. Bad blogger, bad, bad, bad. In my defense, though, I'm pregnant and exhausted! ;D

Today, right now, I am in Pine City, MN enjoying a scrapbooking retreat with some awesome ladies that I am so happy to call my friends. Our "mommy's" group is spending some time away from our families to scrapbook, eat and laugh the weekend away. We are right on the river and have enjoyed a beautiful day of watching the river flow past us and the snow fall softly on the ground. It has been fantastic! I've taken a bath in a huge soaking tub, scrapbooked a little bit, chit chatted, eaten enough food to feed an army and taken a nap. Such a great group of ladies to spend a fun weekend with, too.

We go home tomorrow afternoon and I can't wait to see B and take him out to play in the snow. I'm really sad that I missed his reaction to the snow on the ground this morning...but what can ya do?!

Til next time bloggers...

My My How Times Flies

It really amazes me how quickly time flies when you are having fun! The last time I posted on this here blog, it was the beginning of August. What felt like forever ago now, but yet not in some ways...it is now the END of September. Oh. My. Gosh! To say we are busy around here is an understatement. We've been to 4 weddings since the last post. Wedding #1 was in Cannon Falls, Wedding #2 was in Roseau, Wedding #3 was in Minneapolis/Burnsville and Wedding #4 was in Gaylord/Chaska! We've been crisscrossing this great state of ours for some wonderful celebrations :D

Brendan and I have started back up with our Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE for short) classes again and it is going so well! We are in a class that the parent and child split up for a portion of the class time. Last year we were also in this sort of class, but B did not do too well with the separating. This year he is an old pro and do so well when it is time for us to part. He loves going to school and playing with all of his friends. It is so much fun when we come back together after our parent class is finished and he gets the giggles because I have come back to him. He's such a sweetie!

In other news...Brendan is super excited because, HE'S GOING TO BE A BIG BROTHER!!! :D Baby Lindberg #2 is due May 7, 2011. We are doing great, but it still has not sunk in quite yet that there will be 2 little ones in our house in a few short months. AHHHHH! If you ask B is he wants and baby brother or a baby sister, he always says "baby sis". (All of his friends have baby sisters, so I'm sure that's where he is getting that from) We will find out when it comes time to have the ultrasound what the sex of the baby is...Grant and I are planner people and cannot not find out! ;D

Well, that's all for now, Happy October everyone!

August is here...recent pictures to enjoy!

Helllllooooooo August! I can't say it enough...where does the time go?!? It seems like time is going by WAY too quickly and there is nothing to do about it! We are having a great summer, to say the least. The 3rd week in July my sister-in-law's family drove up from Florida to spend the week with us...B played his little heart out the whole entire time and was just a little bit lost when they cousins headed back home. The weekend after that, Grant headed up to Lake of the Woods with his dad and some friends for a long weekend fishing trip. The fishing was tough, but Grant did catch and release his personal best muskie, a 52-inch beauty! While they were in Canada doing the fishing thing, B and I got to spend time with my family at the annual Lanesboro biking trip. What a great time that was! My immediate family and my mom's brother's family all stay in a beautiful cabin down there. My cousin Brandon has 2 daughters and the youngest was born the day after Brendan...I call them the twins. They were fast friends and had a great time riding in the bike trailer a few times together. (They were holding hands, tickling each other and just giggling up a storm!) This past Saturday we had a full family day out; we started in Lakeville at the "Day out with Thomas" event where you can ride on a real Thomas train, then we went to the Mall of America to visit the sharks at Underwater World and have lunch, then we headed to Cannon Falls to attend the wedding of Grant's college roommate. It was a hot ceremony, but very beautiful! I end with a few pictures from these events!

B and Tali all ready to go in the bike trailer!

The youngest generation; Liam, Tali, Layney, Emma and Brendan!

The whole Thon/Kruschel crew this year!

So excited to see Thomas and go for a ride!

Checking out the Alligator gars at Underwater World!