Our Weekend

It had been a long week & we were looking forward to the weekend. Morgan had spent a couple nights with Emily because I had to be in St. Cloud for mantadory training for work. The girls were done with school for the week at noon on Thursday. (Fergus Falls seems to have an awful lot of "teacher work days" in the school schedule.) Friday had finally arrived and Morgan went to a sleepover at a friend's house. I was home alone, finishing up the last of the laundry & ironing. Paul was coming on Saturday & since he was only going to be here 24 hours I wanted to have all my weekend work done & out of the way before he came. I was hanging some things in my closet and heard a creaking sound. The next thing I knew the entire clothes bar & shelving came crashing down! (The same thing had happened in Morgan's closet last year.) After I dug myself out from all the bedding and things that had fallen on me from the upper shelf I immediately began pulling out my hang up clothes. I knew I had to get them hanging again before they wrinkled. Since we have limited closet space in our house I had to improvise and hang things all over the upstairs. Some clothes had plaster on them and needed to be washed. What a huge mess! So much for our work-free weekend!

Soon after he got here on Saturday afternoon Paul & Morgan ran to Fleet Farm to get the supplies needed to make the repairs. It didn't take Paul long to get the brackets & shelf repaired. (Since he had fixed Morgan's last year he knew exactly what needed to be done.) I had most of the closet put back in order by suppertime. (I did find quite a few items that I will be dropping off at the Goodwill on Monday.)

Saturday night we watched Dr. Dolittle 2 after supper. We were all so exhausted from the week that we could barely drag ourselves off to bed after the movie (9:30)!

Today after church we just finished our lunch when Wes called to see if we wanted to go to see "The Bucket List". Paul needed to get back to the farm so we went to the 2:00 matinee. The movie was good. Paul & Peppy left for the farm late this afternoon. I brought a bunch of my work home with me this weekend in an effort to catch up from being gone from my desk for 2 days this past week. I guess the rest of my evening will be spent working on that. (Fun)

I know this isn't a very excited post, but that is our life!

50th Wedding Anniversary

We celebrated Paul's parents' 50th Wedding Anniversary

in Bottineau on December 29th. We had over 100 people

attend the Open House in the afternoon.

They were married 50 years ago to the day.

The cake was a replica of their actual wedding cake.

(It was a bit taller than the original - and less tasty (this

was decorated styrofoam!)

These were Ruth's wedding shoes. We also displayed

her wedding dress.

We served a meal to the family after the Open House at

the church. This was a chance for more visiting time.

Thank you to Kay Borowski for all of her work in the kitchen!!

This is the entire family - thanks to Sheila Borowski

for taking photos and helping in the kitchen all day!!

(I had over 150 photos to sort through - that is why

it took me so long to get to this post.)

Christmas with Family

Christmas Eve was spent on Hoot Lake with

the Borowski & Wodele Families

Pat & Denny

Woody, Maite, Morgan & Emily

Kay & Rog

Pat, Heather, Wes & the back of Sheila's head!

Matt, Tim & Zac (looking away)

Enjoying a couple beers from Grandpa & Grandma

(Root Beer, that is!)

On Christmas Day we got up early and

drove to Rochester

Allie

Kara & Jeremy

Jordan & Kara

(Jordan spent part of Christmas eve with the Olson

family & arrived in Fergus later on - we were

glad to have him with us for a few days.)

We "kidnapped" Allie and brought her back to

Fergus with us on the 26th. She and Auntie

were exhausted & didn't even flinch when

I snapped this photo of them napping.

Late in the day on the 27th we headed for the Farm.

Allie was a good traveler.

She enjoyed playing with the tubby toys at the

Farm.

On the 28th we had our Christmas celebration

with Paul's family. Ruth had a wonderful

turkey dinner prepared for supper.

Ruth & Norvin

Taylor, Katie & Marilyn

Morgan, Anna & Stieg (looking away)

Ruth, Norvin & Paul

These scary gangsters are my sons!

Jeremy & Jordan

Kara & Allie were spending a little time with

her family and joined us later on at the Farm.

Spoiled!!

Here is a picture of Morgan riding on the snowmobile her dad got her for Christmas.

I wondered why he was looking for a Polaris for her....

then I saw what he brought home for himself.

He offered to get me one too.....

I politely declined!