December 2024

What a beautiful December!

Lots of basketball for both Bryndel & Piper!

Calvin & Hobbes enjoy the trees as well, but maybe not their sweaters.

Hadley & Piper got MANY compliments on the Christmas sweaters they borrowed from Grandma! Lots of cookies were also decorated.

We got to sing carols at Oma's nursing home together ❤️ 

And celebrated at Auntie Kim's house with the Andersons and with Grandma back at our house on Christmas 🎄 Such a blessing to be with so many family members.

November 2024

The month started off with a Kyle's best buck yet! Followed by Hadley's 18th birthday! (One of her senior pictures.) She got to celebrate with her birthday buddy, Cyndy, too!

Piper's basketball season is off to a great start - averaging 8 points a JV game and even getting into the Varsity game at times!

Bryndel has only had one night of scrimmages, but is having fun with her BB team!

Piper had quite the fan section over the Thanksgiving break!

Grandma, Nathan, Heidi and cousins came over for a little of the Wisconsin Thanksgiving tradition - hunting! Cylas was blessed to harvest a beautiful 9 point buck with all of his siblings and cousins in tow!

We finished off the month by harvesting our own Christmas trees right off the land. Now it's time to prepare and anticipate the birth of Christ ❤️

October 2024

 

It has been quite the month of cross country meets! Bryndel had a great first season!

While Hadley had a great last season.

We topped off the month with a Packer game for Kyle & Hadley, and  State Park day for the whole family!

September 2024

We finished out the summer at the lake for Labor day weekend with lots of tubing fun!

Then it was off to school for Bryndel in 6th grade at her new middle school, Piper a sophomore, and Hadley a SENIOR!!

Hadley has had a great cross country season!

Piper a great tennis season, swinging between JV and Varsity all season.

Bryndel has really enjoyed her first CC season meeting new friends and running hard!

And of course, there was Homecoming!

Alaska 2024

We had a blessed 10 day adventure in Alaska this August! We saw God's glory on full display around every corner, and were blessed by Kennedy's wedding and many joyful family gatherings! We can't wait to go back!

We hiked the Butte our first morning!

Followed by Kennedy & Taylor's beautiful wedding that evening.

We hiked the Gold Cord Lake trail in Hatchers Pass the following day.

Took in the Matanuska Glacier tour with Cali and kids!

Kyle, Hadley & Piper braved the waters and went deep sea fishing off of Homer. They came back with a lot of delicious fish!

We returned to Homer the following day to enjoy time down on the spit taking in the salty air and the local culture.

We drove and hiked our way through the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge where we saw salmon jumping up stream and several moose.

We finished out our adventure with a couple of days fishing with cousins. We ended up having the most luck right off of Uncle Kurt & Auntie Anne's dock!

It was such a blessed vacation!