HOMEMADE JAM!

Lindsay and Sam came home a week ago and after spending Saturday morning covering some wedding details we spent the afternoon making jam while the guys went golfing. Here is a sample of the Strawberry Freezer Jam, Rhubarb Blueberry, Rhubarb Raspberry and Rhubarb Peach we made.

4TH OF JULY AT THE VETERAN'S HOME

On Saturday the Minnesota Veterans Home in Fergus Falls had an early 4th of July Parade. The Otter Football team has "adopted grandparents" there so they were invited to walk in the parade. Here are just a few pictures from the parade. It was a bit rainy but amazingly that did not keep the veterans away. It did make for poor photography though.


Even the Statue of Liberty came!
Here are some of the team members that came to march that morning.

A Hot Summer Afternoon

When you live in Fergus Falls and you are a teenage boy jumping off "the rock" or going to the "rope swing" is a memory of growing up. Our boys know that mom has always gone to these sites to give her pre-approval before they were allowed to jump off of anything. However, this year I did not make it to the rope swing before Nicholas used it. He did bring me home a movie though. I have to wonder what my mother would say if she saw this.

Happy 30th Anniversary

Thirty years ago today Richard and I were married in Moorhead on a warm, humid evening. To celebrate our 30 years of marriage we are taking a cruise and land trip with our friends to Alaska this summer. Tonight though we invited the boys to join us and we went to Zorbaz on Otter Tail Lake. This is my favorite place to go with our family because of it being on the water. We ordered our favorite Macho Chicken Nachos and Pepperoni Pizza. Then to top off the evening we stopped at Granny's in Battle Lake to have ice-cream. Thanks for celebrating with us boys!

Wedding Dress Shopping

A few weeks ago Lindsay and I hopped in the car and took a road trip to hunt for the perfect wedding dress. It was an adventure as we traveled to Alexandria, Perham, Little Falls and the St. Cloud area. This is the day you dream about as a mom when you go wedding dress shopping with your daughter. Of course you hear stories about how everyone finds that perfect dress......but it just wasn't happening for us. Well that evening as we were enjoying a quiet evening in our motel having some mother daughter bonding time we were wondering if we would ever find the "perfect" dress. Then I spotted a bridal boutique ad in the St. Cloud paper. I called the phone number the next morning and the owner answered. No they were not open that day because she was having a big bridal gown sale in a small town 15 minutes north of St.Cloud called Foley. She had brought over 400 dresses there from various shops from around the United States for this SALE! She was certain if we came we would find our dress. So, we hopped in the car and made the trip. Now this sounded like our kind of shopping. We walked into a large reception area in a catering business and there were rows and rows of dresses in their individual bags lining the walls of the reception hall. Lindsay walked over to the area where her sizes were and unzipped the FIRST bag and.................... we found the dress! It was a perfect fit and we got to take it home with us that day.

Now you won't get to see the wedding dress until January 3rd but we did think you should get a glimpse of a few dresses she tried on prior to finding the right dress. It pays to have a sense of humor when you are trying on so many dresses!

****************************** "the twist"
**************************** "the rug"
"just don't buy anything with a big pink bow in the middle of it"
*******************************"prom anyone"
************************** the five layered cake dress