Rockin' with AMBN and IGBN: 2009

December 31, 2009

Mom and Dad - Together Again

The week between Christmas and New Year's was full of surprises for our family, but not pleasant surprises. Mom was diagnosed with breast cancer right before Christmas and had her lumpectomy the Tuesday after Christmas. On Monday morning Dad was brought to the hospital because he was passing so much blood. Dad wasn't allowed to go down to surgery area on Tuesday, so after mom's surgery was done, we had the nurse wheel her up to the waiting room on dad's floor. We decided that they love each other so much they even needed to be in the hospital at the same time.

December 20, 2009

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November 22, 2009

fireplace with new doors installed! santa will have a harder time getting in but hopefully matti will stay out of the firebox now.

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November 13, 2009

The New House

We moved into our new house on October 15th after some slight drama that involved us owning two houses for about 5 days rather than being homeless for about an hour as it had been planned. But, all worked out OK. We are LOVING the house. There is still work to be done to make it our own but we have all the major stuff in place for the time being. It's hard to decide how to triage projects. One of the first things we need to do is buy an insert for the fireplace so there are doors on the fireplace since Matti has decided that the firebox is a great place to explore (when there is no fire). Mom came up last weekend while Steve was hunting and we painted Matti's room and got that put together with the new bedding, etc. It looks great and I can post pictures from that project once I figure out how to get pictures off my phone and onto the computer. Kitty Cielo has been fairly perturbed by this entire process. This is now her 6th home that she has to figure out where the hiding spots are so that she can continue on with anti-socialness. Matti is loving the fact that she gets increased sightings of the kitty right now. Stop by and visit us sometime and make sure to ring the doorbell - It's AWESOME!

Halloween

Darin and Caressa's Wedding

October 5, 2009

Grape Stomp

A fun time at Morgan Creek Vineyards for the annual Grape Stomp!

http://www.morgancreekvineyards.com/

Having no team name or uniforms and coming totally unprepared, we declared ourselves the "Ragamuffins"

Wildly stomping our way to 4,550 mL of grape juice, a last-place finish (we think)

Marching in the procession

The ... um ... okay, I don't remember what they called this guy. We were just supposed to follow him.

October 2, 2009

Aubrey 1-Year Pictures

Photography by Cathy Mace, 763-420-4366 or cathymace@121msg.com

September 28, 2009

Skol Vikings

Daddy likes to take me to watch Vikings games on Sundays. On game days my nickname is "Li'l Kleinsasser"!

Chip off the ol' block?

Johnny Olson (1910 - 1985) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Olson) was a famous announcer for the game show The Price is Right. This famous photograph was taken in 1975 and came to be known as Steve's "Johnny Olson face."