Red Rocks

Red Rocks

Monday, June 29, 2009

I am ever so far behind...






















Spent the weekend before last with Luke and Will at a soccer tournament. The highlight was staying with my brother Pat and his wife at their home in Minnesota. I took this picture from the shore end of the dock with a Saturday night sunset.

The boys had great fun in the lake and playing with their cousins (Sue and Grandma were there, too).

The soccer didn't go so well, but the lake was a hit. Here are the kids on the shore and in the water:






















This last weekend I took the same two boys up to their other Grandma's farm, where they shot fireworks, I did some mowing and chainsaw work, shot most of the gophers but didn't get a crack at the squirrel who is digging up the flower bulbs from the big flower pots.



I just had to throw this one in. Luke and Will recently celebrated their 12th birthdays, so here is one from about 10 years ago. Trust me, they've changed.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

The Weekend!





Here is a photo of the boys and Will's teacher Christie playing at Madison and Trevor's wedding in May. They were terrific, and many people said so. Difficult to get away from the Mormon missionary look at a formal wedding.


Off to the hinterlands east of Fargo for the weekend to stay at Pat and April's house in Minne-SO-ta. I'll be driving Luke and Will into Fargo Saturday and Sunday for U12 soccer. This is the first tournament of the year for them so they are very excited.

Meanwhile,Tami and Hunter are off to Sioux Falls, S.D. for Hunter's U15 Regional tournament. Their first game Saturday is against Michigan, which is apparently ranked 4th in the nation among U15 teams.The only team Hunter's ever faced at that level of play was when they lost to a team from Northern Ireland at last year's USA Cup in Blaine 4-1, thus becoming the only team to score a goal against them the entire week.

I'll try and file some reports as we go, with photos to follow once we get home.

Thursday, June 04, 2009

Spring Recital

Wednesday afternoon we met at the music room at Trinity Lutheran Church (the one across the street from Grandma Knudson's house on third street) for a violin recital. Hunter has been taking lessons from Dr. Eric Lawson for not quite the last 2 years, and this was his first solo recital since the Riverbend Conservatory days. I apologize for the sound quality and handheld video, but thought some of you would like to hear him if it's been awhile. The song is almost fourteen minutes long and he was accompanied on piano by our friend Dr. Tom Porter of U Mary. This is "Concertino" by Oskar Rieding.