The hills are alive......

Morgan has been rehearsing for this summer's musical theater production of The Sound of Music. She has been cast as part of the nun choir and is also one of the party guests. The cast will be having some serious rehearsals between now and the opening performance next weekend.

If you are interested in tickets check out information at

A Center for the Arts http://www.fergusarts.org/

July 18 - 20 and

July 28 - August 1

More Pictures from Allie's Visit

The Fergus Falls Marching Band was marching in the parade in Elizabeth, MN. It was the first parade that Allie remembers going to.

It was a hot day so we started out with a little ice cream treat. Allie only got a couple bites before it melted off of the stick!

Some "parade royalty" went by and waved at Allie. She picked up the cutest wave and as the various floats & vehicles went by us she waved to everyone. It was adorable....no wonder everyone threw her TONS of candy!


If you look close, you can see Emily (clarinet). It had rained a lot and the band did not wear their nice white uniforms because of the muddy conditions of the streets in Elizabeth (some were gravel). They were the only marching band in the parade.

Look for Morgan with her silver trumpet.

This is only a portion of the candy that Allie (with help from Heather) got at the parade.

Allie was hot & tired from collecting all of the candy. Ty let her ride back through town in his stroller after the parade ended.

We were so busy when Allie was here that we didn't even think about afternoon naps. By Sunday afternoon she was so exhausted that she crashed on the couch for a couple hours. I woke her up (didn't want her to sleep too long) and the poor little thing was confused. She asked for breakfast a couple times and really thought it was morning. I had to point out that we were all still wearing our church clothes and it was afternoon, not morning. What a little sweetie!

We got over 8 inches of rain in the 12 days she stayed with us. We had hoped to visit more parks, but the mud was pretty bad around town. She had a lot of fun playing in a pop-up tent on our deck one afternoon.

Our new neighbors got a new puppy. Her name is Molly. Allie LOVED to play with Molly.

Allie asked many times a day to go to the neighbor's "park" and to see Molly.

Molly is a fun little pup. (Golden Retriever - about 9 weeks old here)

Allie was especially proud of the fact that she could climb the rock wall on the neighbor's play set.

It was still quite muddy one night, Morgan had rehearsal for the musical (Sound of Music), but Allie and I went to the park over by where Uncle Wes works anyway. We didn't get to go on the swings, but the mud didn't keep us off of everything.

Can you tell that she was having a great time?!? (So much fun, in fact, that when her Dad called to talk to her she couldn't find a minute or two for him....she was at the park & had lots to do!)

Later that same evening we headed over to Hoot Lake and went out on the pontoon.

Allie & Uncle Wes shared some green Laffy Taffy....

and then he let her drive. No wonder she loves him so much!!

One of her last nights with us we had spaghetti for supper. She politely asked if she could use her fingers to eat her food. I figured it couldn't hurt - it was quite difficult to wind spaghetti around a fork. Well....she slurped those noodles so fast that I could barely capture it on film. The picture is kind of dark so you can't see the sauce that was all over her nose, cheeks & forehead! It was a messy, but fun meal!

Allie's Visit

Here are a few highlights from the past 5 days of Allie's visit.

Monday after work we played in the yard for a while.

She got a new pinwheel that is not only fun outside, we drive with the car window open so it can spin in the breeze.

After supper we went to a small park near our house.

Auntie Morgan had a class at the college every day from 1:30 - 2:30. On Tuesday we had to tour the college to see what it was like inside.



We have been in & out of this carseat a hundred times! Every time we get inside a hot car, Grandma says, "Hot Diggity Dog" and Allie says, "Woof, it's hot in here".

Allie has been busy playing piano, coloring & painting pictures and playing with playd0ugh.

Wednesday night we crashed Uncle's work picnic. Allie said the chicken & watermelon & cake was great.

There were games & crafts for the kids. Heather helped Allie make this cool visor.

Bingo with prizes

Allie with all of her "loot".

It feels like it rains every day. We got almost 6 inches of rain in 3 days. This really cuts into our visits to the parks. It is quite muddy. We have been doing a lot of puzzles. We visited the next door neighbor one night and played with their puppy, Molly, and on the playset until after 10 p.m. Then we still needed a bath so it was another late night for Allie. She has been sleeping until 10:30 or later most days. Auntie Morgan doesn't complain about that. :)

We had lunch at McDonald's yesterday before Auntie went "to college".

Allie ordered a hamburger with cheese and no pickles. She also wanted apples and chocolate milk. The caramel dip was her favorite part of the meal. (Allie wants me to write and let you all know that grandma spilled her pop on the floor.)




Today was Auntie's last day at college. There was a short program for everyone to watch.

Allie didn't weigh enough to keep her seat down.

We had about 20 minutes to kill waiting for the program. Allie took about 30 self portraits while we were waiting. Here is one for you all to enjoy. :)

Auntie waiting to perform. Her class was an acting class. They did a short play. Since she was the oldest & tallest she was "the mother".

Here is Allie cooking me a special meal tonight of hot dogs, coffee & muffins.

Every afternoon Allie asks to go to Auntie Sheila's house. She gets to see Ty and Emily when she is there. She especially enjoys the licorice she has been snacking on there.

Tonight we went for a walk when Morgan was at the YMCA with Wes & Emily. We got to hold Wallace, my neighbor's bunny, and pet some cats. Allie helped me sweep the deck and put the plants back where they belong. We had a big storm here last night and there were tree seeds everywhere. Allie also helped pick up some sticks that fell into the yard.

Allie is here by me in our bed. She wanted to take one more picture to share with all of you tonight.

Sleep well!!

Happy Birthday to a Good Big Brother!

Happy 23rd Birthday, Jordan!

Getting your sister to take a nap so mom could have some pool time

Sharing everything with your little sister...you weren't scared of "girl germs"

This little girl would get so excited when you would carry her to the vehicle...it usually meant that you would be sitting by her and entertaining her on the trip to some ballgame or other event....all you had to do was smile at her and she would get the giggles.

(Okay, I won't be posting that picture that you took of her in the vehicle when you told her to pick her nose.......sometimes you just had way too much fun in that back seat together!)

Giving your sister rides around the farm yard......and then having her pick up all the sticks in the yard and put them into the wagon for you as you drove.

Thanks for being such a good big brother!

Love, Mom, Dad & Morgan

We are so proud!

VCSU Graduation

We are very proud of Brittany

She graduated Cum Laude (with honors)

and received her Bachelor of Science Degree

Brittany's Family

Jordan & Brittany

Morgan & Brittany

We are as proud as can be to have Brittany join our family!!

We love you, Britt!

Something For Carter & Bradley

Christmas 1972 at the Dorwin's House

Bill, Chad (on lap), Todd & Paula

LaNita (holding Chad), Mark (in the groovy blue vest and green shirt), Annie's head in front, not sure who's plaid butt is under the tree?!?

I thought the boys might get a kick out of seeing their Grandpa & Grandma and their Dad 36 years ago!! (Doesn't Bradley look like Chad in the 2nd picture?!)

New Computer

I got a new computer and this is my first attempt to take photos off my camera & upload them onto Blogger. Let's see how it goes!

After the first performance

One of the numbers from "Oklahoma"

Confirmation Sunday

(Beautiful inside & out)

1st Place in the long jump - it was freezing at the meet (we wore winter jackets)

Jazz Band concert last week.

Happenings

Morgan has been busy, busy, busy. Speech and Drama (JH Play) are done and now track has begun! Morgan, Emily & Heather are also rehearsing several nights a week for the "Razzle Dazzle Revue". They will have performances on Friday & Saturday this week. It is hard to get good pictures at the Center for the Arts, but I will try to get one or two posted by next week.

Morgan was part of the Worship Team at church on Easter Sunday. Heather had her trusty little camera in her purse and took a picture for me. They sounded good!

Jeremy, Kara, Allie, Jordan, Brittany, Shana, Jamie & Abby were all able to spend the weekend with us during the basketball tournament here a few weeks ago. (Oh yeah, Hurley & Etne were here too!) It was fun to have everyone here. We ran to so many different gyms/games that we didn't get a lot of time together at the house. This little girl was wore out before the weekend was over.

Okay....this little girl AND this big girl were wore out!

Grandpa tried to get Allie to sleep by reading her new John Deere "Allie Gator" book to her.

She could hardly keep her eyes open, but wanted to explore all of the items hiding behind the little flaps.

Allie was introduced to the world of handheld video systems.
She was very serious about learning how everything worked.

She was a very quick learner.

Uncle Jordan was thinking that he needed a turn playing Dora. I guess he needed to know that he could beat Allie's high score! That would give him some serious bragging rights on campus....I am fairly certain none of his buddies could boast a higher score of Dora the Explorer on VSmile Cyber Pocket!

The time together was way too short. I can't wait for everyone to come back again! Poor Jordan & Brittany are fighting flooding in Valley City right now. Classes at the college are canceled all week (and probably next week too). Jordan still has to drive to Jamestown everyday to do his student teaching at the high school. He had some good photos that he tried to email me, but I never got them. When his internet service is back again maybe he can try to send them one more time and I can post them here. Updates are on the local news channels. www.wday.com or www.inforum.com

Random stuff

7 1/2 years and $5,000 later......

Beautiful!

Here are a couple of pics that just make us laugh..

who cracks you up the most?

In the words of Allie...."winner, winner, chicken dinner"

.....Morgan says Abz wins by a nostril!

No Foolin"

They may look fake....but, they are really hers!

http://fylling.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html

Check out the day the braces went on.

Florida Fun

Sheila, Wes, Paul & I spent a relaxing week in the Orlando area visiting Mom, Woody & Maite. At the last minute we decided to leave on Monday night to beat the blizzard that was coming our direction. We were sure glad that we left when we did. The storm hit, interstates were closed, schools were delayed/closed, the temperatures dropped and the snow piled up all over the Fergus Falls area. We spent an extra 2 hours on the plane Tuesday evening as we waited to de-ice. It was hard to imagine the weather we left behind as we slept at Woody & Maite's house on Tuesday night with our windows wide open!! It was wonderful. We had weather in the upper 80's all week with lots of sunshine. We felt a little sorry for the girls & those left behind in MN.

We often found Paul on his phone during our vacation. Thankfully most of those calls were just chatting with his buddies & not all business calls. Here he is soaking up some sunshine by the pond in the backyard. (It wasn't overcast - I took the picture through the screen in my open bedroom window.)

Someone turned her ankle the first afternoon. Thankfully we had a doctor along and she was healed in no time. She did get out of hauling all of the heavy luggage around. (Not that she planned to carry it anyway because as she was ever so ready to tell us "she was on vacation"!)

We had some exciting evenings of playing games. Here we are introducing everyone to BananaGrams. (If you like crossword games like Scrabble we highly recommend this fast moving word game.) We also played Dominos and Catch Phrase. We love playing games with Maite - she is so much fun (for a cheater). Ha ha....just kidding, Maite!

We spent some time shopping, going to Cocoa Beach & Vero Beach, spending time at Nalcrest in Mom & Dad's new condo and exploring the Florida countryside while we went to Garage Sales with Mom's friends. The guys went to Gatorland and also went on airboat rides. (Woody needs to post a blog with these photos....hint, hint.)

Sorry, I didn't take my camera to the beaches with us. Maybe the Borowski's have a couple pictures on their blog.

We thought we would be able to view the space shuttle launch on Thursday since we were already in the Cocoa Beach area, but it was postponed. We did get a great view of the launch on Sunday evening from Woody & Maite's backyard.

This was our view from their backyard.

Okay....we had a tv out on the patio with us so we could see the actual blast-off.

Moments after this was seen live on the tv screen we saw this....

It was a great way to spend our last night in Florida.

Thanks, Mom, Woody & Maite for a fun week!!

Yup, we are proud!

Brittany Olson was selected to the Third Team All-DAC for 2008-09.

Campus News

WBB: Three Vikings Cagers Honored
Posted: Mar. 3rd, 2009 7:36 PM
Author: VCSU Sports Information
Updated: Mar. 5th, 2009 2:53 PM

Senior guard, Brittany Olson and sophomore guard, Amanda Brown were selected to the Third Team All-DAC for 2008-09. Olson, the lone senior on the roster for the Vikings, average 13.6 points and 3.8 rebounds this season. Brown averaged 10.9 points and 5.4 rebounds in 2008-09.