Happy Birthday, Morgan!!

Where have the years gone?!?

Here are a few things that she has been busy with the past 13 years

Birthday parties.....

Fun times with Cousin Emily......

Dressing up for Christmas ......

Jeremy & Kara's Wedding.....

Spending time with her favorite niece, Allie....

Loving animals & longing for more pets of her own.....

Piano Recitals.......

Band & choir concerts.....

Musical Performances......

Volleyball & Basketball

This doesn't include the hundreds of hours she has spent at her brothers' sporting events, attending Vacation Bible School, the trip to Florida with her cousins, the times she has been skiing, snowmobiling, driving the pontoon, swimming in the middle of the lake, hanging out with friends, fun times at Bible Camp or Family Game Nights at the Borowski's. The list could go on & on!!

Hope you have more great memories during your "teen years"!!

Love, Mom & Dad

The Ice Tour

Yesterday after school Paul & I picked up Morgan,

Emily & Kathleen and we headed for

Grand Forks to celebrate Morgan's birthday.

First stop....Applebees for some supper

Then it was off to the Ralph Engelstad Arena for High School Musical

(for what we paid for this program it deserved a spot on the blog!)

Traffic was nasty but we managed to get to our seats before the show began

The show was spectacular

One of the girls favorite scenes was when the

basketballs fell from the sky

(unfortunately we didn't know it was

going to happen & I missed the photo)

I had never photographed ice skating before....

some of my photos were blurry, but we have

about 200 that turned out good

The skaters were professional

Kids in the crowd sang along

The first half of the show was songs from

High School Musical - the second half

was High School Musical 2

There were neat special effects throughout the show

Afterwards we made a freezing trip from the arena to our car.

We only shivered for a short while & then found ourselves

off to McD's for some ice cream treats for the trip home.

We were back to Fergus by midnight.

Happy Birthday, Morgan - hope you enjoyed the day!!

Love, Mom

Happy Birthday, Kara!!

We are thrilled that you are part of our family....hope you have a great birthday!

Love,

Paul, Sheri & Morgan

The Littlest Snowmobiler in the Family

Allie got a new snowmobile from her Grandpa & Grandma Pedie for Christmas. They delivered it this weekend. She looks like she is having a blast!

Happy Birthday, Jeremy!

Where have the years gone?.....

Happy 25th birthday today!!

Love,

Mom, Dad & Morgan

Happy Valentine's Day!

We wish you all a Happy Valentine's Day......Morgan, Emily, Paul & Wes are heading out to Red Lodge, MT for a few days of skiing. They should have a great time. (Paul hasn't skiied since high school - Morgan said he might as well make his chiropractic appointment now for when he gets back home!) We are getting 5-7 inches of snow today. Hope the slopes out in Red Lodge are getting some new snow too!

Happy Birthday to Grandma Ruthie & Uncle Woody!

Hope you have great birthdays!!

Grandma at her 80th birthday party last year

Allie & Great-grandma in Dec. 07

Woody & his lost teeth

Woody & Morgan - the mighty hunters

Morgan says, "Happy Birthday to cousin Naomi too!"

We love you & wish you many more!!

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.