Happy Birthday Dad!!

These pictures are from Easter 2007 - we celebrated dad's 80th birthday and had a great time with everyone - it's his birthday today and we love him very much and hope his day is enjoyable.

Vanessa's farewell and Mike's Fishing

Got together with some friends and family in the park on Thurs night to so good-bye to Vanessa - we had pizza first with just the family.

Then played some sand volleyball - girls and Mike against the guys and of course the girls won :)

Then we had some ice cream sandwiches - Vanessa left yesterday and hopes to be home to her family tonight - just this morning she got to Brazil - now has two more flights to get to her family and friends who are waiting there in Victoria.

Mike had a great time fishing too - they went small mouth bass fishing and caught quite a few - this is Dave De Ruyter

This is Marshall Vander Linden and his son Travis (I think they look exactly alike-WOW)

Fun summer times - we are riding the Okoboji Campus ride this Saturday - 25 miles around parts of the lake - it is always the last Saturday in June and we always have a great time - it is suppose to be pretty warm this weekend - so we might have to get an early start and then go swimming later to cool off :)

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!

Happy Father's day to some of the best dads that I know :) Some of my favorite pics - this one is Mike with his trappers ready for trapping day - this was the first time Jamie used her waders and she was so proud of them!

This one is from a couple Christmases ago - Dad is always such a fun lover - he couldn't find a chair so just sad down on Dave - no big deal - see all the snow out the back windows - very pretty early evening picture

Evonne and Gerrit spent a day with mom and dad awhile back and took awesome pics - was going through them the other day and just wanted to share - dad looks really good here and mom is busy taking care of him and he loves it.

I have no idea what was so funny but it must have been hilarious!!!

Happy Father's day dad we love you !!!

This one is Mike in Canada in '07 - Mike is fishing this weekend in South Dakota with some guys - hope he has a great time and catches some good eating.

Mall of America Pictures

I took Jamie, Josie, Vanessa and Brandalyn to the Mall of America on Friday and Saturday first weekend school was out!!!

We got to the mall around 2 on Friday and closed it down at 9:30 that evening - here we are eating at a Villa Pizza (it was where they all wanted to go for supper)-we must have been in need of some good carbs :)

We had a very nice hotel(thanks to Evonne's help) and the girls then closed down the pool :)

The next morning - getting ready to head back to the mall!!!

Everyone got dressed and I couldn't resist a pic since they all had stripes on!!!!

They were finished shopping early today and then bought all day passes to the rides and away they went - here they are just finished on the log ride(I think they were having a great time)

This is a new ride at the mall - it looked like a huge skateboard and went back and forth and the circles they are sitting in went round and round-the girl on the bottom ring and way on the left with her hair straight up and legs straight out is Jamie - we stayed at the mall till 6pm and then headed home again - we had a super time and it was just a very fun weekend!!