December 2020

We had a wonderful December preparing to celebrate Christmas together! We even spent a night in MN with the Grahams, and a night in Northern WI with the Andersons.  Being together was such a blessing!

Bryndel continues to be able to attend school 5 days a week, while Hadley & Piper continue to attend MS on a hybrid schedule with virtual school three days a week.

And, our house at the land has officially begun!!! 2021 is going to be a great year!

November 2020

We spent a lot of time hunting and virtual schooling in November. One was more fun than the other, ha!

We also had a blast of summer weather that we all enjoyed. The girls even had a reading party one afternoon!

Hadley turned 14 and decorated her own cake!

And we cut down our trees at the land in preparation for Christmas - Fa la la!

October 2020

It was a bit of a cold October, with local snow records and everything! Thankfully, the girls stayed busy with in-person school, virtual school, a little VB, tennis, and some hunting with Dad too.

Piper had a short (5 week) first tennis season, but sure had fun while it lasted! Hadley's VB season was equally as short, but equally as fun! With spectators limited due to Covid, we even got to watch her live streamed from home twice.

We got snow!

But thankfully it all melted in time for an abbreviated Halloween party & parade at school. Due to local Covid trick or treating 'guidelines' we had a party at home instead 😁

With this fun crew! We took this same photo 4 years ago. After the photo 4 years ago, Nolan bit Cy in the back. Thankfully, that portion was not recreated this time!

We finished out the weekend with Uncle Buck's (Kyle's) birthday, AND and a Vikings win!!

September 2020

September has been an exciting month as we got back to school, and some serious hunting was done as well!

Our big 2nd grader! Bryndel gets to attend 5 days a week at her little private elementary school, praise God!

Our brand new middle schooler! Piper (along with Hadley) gets to attend two days of in-person school, and three days of virtual from home. She is making the best of it, but it is weird to say the least! She even joined the tennis team!

Our nearly high schooler! Hadley loves 8th grade, and even gets to have a month of VB practices and games, as long as they social distance and wear masks, hehe.

This is what Bryndel looks like in her classroom; that's plexiglass on 3 sides of her desk.

We caught the last sunset of the summer with cousins over the Labor day weekend. Meanwhile Kyle was in Colorado on the hunt of a lifetime...

We might be eating sheep for a while!

Hadley also had some hunting luck this month! She shot this beautiful 8 pointer out of Grandpa's stand with her bow! Perfect shot through both lungs at 30 yards. Not sure who was more excited!?

And to finish the month out strong, we have officially decided to finally build on our land!! This coming spring, when the house will likely be completed, we will have owned the land for 15 years! We had a pizza party with Grandma 'in' the staked out house :)

August 2020

 

As usual, we made the most of our last month of summer!

The month began with the adventure of a lifetime for these three!! Kyle took them to CO on a camping, hiking, and scouting mission for his upcoming big horn sheep hunt! 

Meanwhile, Bryndel and I got to help celebrate Grandma with a bridal shower!

And with ice cream to boot!

Piper turned 12!

Spent a day playing with Auntie Kara, Uncle Frank, Grandma A and the goats!

 Bryndel turned 8!

I got hired for the job I've prayed years for... part time speech therapist in the girls' school districts!!

And we helped to celebrate and send Mom off into a beautiful new life with Glenn!

With all 23 of their combined grandkids!

Great fun was had by all, on 09/22/2020!

Now we are off to navigate a weird but exciting school year!

19 Years

We've been married for NINETEEN years!

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