Party like it's 1999!!

Me as a Cow and Myndi as an 80's rocker!!

Jim and Bev (Sunrise Catering and Center Inn Owners)

Did you know Flava Flav was really a white guy with make up on??

Dancing fools!

We are pretty cute!

Mike's shirt says's Bats! Bats! Bats!

Saturday Night Readlyn had a Halloween Dance!

Mike and I worked for Bev and Jim.

I took money at the door and Mike bar tended!

Well we pretty much had to entertain ourselves from 6:30 until 10 because not many people were leaving the top bar to come down to the dance floor so I took over and danced enough for everyone! There were a lot of really creative costumes! We had a really good time!

We stayed until closing time and finally got home and went to bed. I couldn't sleep I was still amped up! So Sunday morning we slept in til about 11, I was up by 10. Sunday we stayed home! It was Readlyn Trick or Treat! So I was prepared for about 75 kids because last year everyone ran out of candy! Too bad for us it snowed! We got about 1/4 inch before everything was said and done, it was snowing so bad you couldn't see across the street!

Corina is a big sister!

I am and "Auntie" again! I am so Proud!

Already smiling for "Auntie" Carrie
Adam is one proud papa!

Cassy just loves her little girls!

Carly Ann Gray

10-22-08

7 Pounds .49 Oz

20 Inches Long

Time to Play Catch up!

Patrick, Mike, Bobby

Brothers

Patrick, Pam, Mike, Bobby

Siblings

Patrick, Mike, Pam, Jeni, Bobby

Almost the whole family!

All gussied up!

Taylor's Falls, WI

We do love each other!




Peek-a-boo!!

Our Future Home!!


Maria and Patrick

Me and Grandma Harder!

We sure surprised her!

Hannah greeted me with the best hug when we got to Sara's!
Best smile!

Trick-Or-Treat!

Hayley is making giraffe noises!


Caged Animals!

I am pleased to introduce to you ;

Miss Luella Jean Thomas

My newest cousin!

This face, My cousin Jenny used to just make me laugh with all the silly faces she would make! This reminds me of her so much! Luella looks like her mommy!

Mike thinks she was pooping here...I think I agree!

Mommy (Jenny) and Luella

Well we've had a very eventful 2 weeks.

10-10 we were informed that our nephew Andrew passed away unexpectedly.

So we started making arrangements so we could head up North for the funeral.

That weekend Mike and I worked at a wedding and spent the rest of the time packing and doing laundry and getting all affairs in order with the house, cat, and dogs.

Our friend Sarah came and checked on the cat and the house everyday while we were gone.

My poor mother got stuck with both of my girls! I think she had fun!

Thanks Mom!

We headed for Hinkley, MN after work on Wednesday. We got there about midnight and we were starving. So we met Mike's mom who showed us to our room at the hotel and we headed down to the Casino to get something to eat. I love their wild rice soup! Yum! We played a little bit then went to bed. Thanks to Mike's cousin Reany we got to stay in a Suite! It was awesome! It had a 2 person whirlpool tub and a separate shower. Had a bedroom and a kitchenette! It was great!

Thursday was the funeral.

That was a very hard day. Though I didn't really know Andrew, that was a very hard funeral for me to go to. He was just too young. It was a really neat funeral though. It was a celebration and worship service! The pastor reminded us that God prepares a place for us. He better put Mikey in my room! :)

Well we had a nice quiet evening at the Casino if that's even possible.

Friday Mike and I went on an adventure. We went over to Taylor's Falls, WI to see the leaves and the river. It was beautiful! We hiked up the hills and got some great pictures!

When we got back to the hotel we went swimming and met up with, Bobby, Kelly, Patrick, Maria, Raymond, Gina, Pam, and Jeni for dinner at the buffet! It was a late but really good supper! We had fun sitting around listening to all the growing up stories!

Saturday we had to check out of the hotel and move in with Patrick!

Well in the afternoon Mike and I went to Ikea and the Mall of America. We got just a few things but had a good time shopping! Then we went Patrick's and had some pizza and hung out. It was nice to just be for a little bit.

Sunday I got up nice and early and had coffee and eggs. We went out to lunch with Patrick, Maria, Bobby, Kelly, and us. Great brunch!

After that we headed over to Grandma Harder's and surprised her during dessert! Her jaw dropped when I asked if she planned on sharing any with me! :) We had a really nice visit.

Then we headed over to see Sara and the girls! Tim was working so Hi Tim! We had fun playing with the girls and reading stories and putting on Halloween costumes! We couldn't stay too long over there but we did have a fun but short visit!

After that we went over to Jenny and Chris's house to meet Luella!

She is beautiful and such a good baby! I got to hold her forever! I also got to see my Aunt Terri and Uncle Steve whom I rarely get to see!

Well we did have a long weekend.

Yesterday my poor mom's car battery died and mike tried to fix it but discovered another problem in the process, my poor little Grandma Morse is in the hospital again, and we are still worn out!

Wish me luck this week! TGIW!

Keep us all in your prayers

Please pray for us and our family.

Our nephew Andrew passed away unexpectedly on Friday.

Andrew is Mike's brother Bobby's son.

We will be traveling to Minnesota for the funeral Wednesday evening.

Please pray for everyone to have safe travel and for everyone to be able to cope.

Also pray for my mom, she's going to have 4 dogs in her house while we are gone!!

Happy Anniversary to Us! 2 Years!

For our anniversary we went apple picking in Wisconsin!
Mike was much better at it than me!





I'M GONNA EAT CHA'!

See my perfect apple?? It's so cute!

Apple Orchard!

Gay's Mills

Pikes Peak

Walking down the long stairs too the waterfall

Mikey, aren't you coming??? I'm beating you!

Under the falls I could stand up but Mike couldn't

I am so daring! Touching the waterfall!





Mike and I had a really good anniversary weekend. I can't believe today is our 2 year anniversary! Time goes by so fast!

Well Friday night started out kinda crummy, Cassy had a babysitter emergency so I had to watch a very cranky Corina! No Nap! Well Mike fell asleep so he wouldn't have to deal with her, and Corina and I played outside and got attacked by squirrels! Ok so he was eating a walnut and dropping the pieces by us, same thing!

Well thank goodness she got hungry and we could got inside. Right after dinner she fell asleep. So Mike and Corina were sleeping in the living room!

Well Mike woke up not long after that and we watched a movie until Cassy came to get her little demon child. :)

After that Mike and I went out for dinner at the OP in Waverly...good pizza!

Then headed home to get some sleep so we could get moving on our journey to Wisconsin!

Apple Day!

I love apple day! It is so much fun to drive through the hills and see the leaves and rock. We took a different way to get there this time. Went though a bunch of little towns that I didn't know were that close to Readlyn. We finally got to Gay's Mills and went to several orchards. We ended up at a Pick You Own apple place. We had never done that before. It was so much fun and we plan on going back!

After that we hit up some more orchards and then grabbed a chili dog!

We headed in to Prairie Du Chein, WI and went to Cabela's.

After that we went to Pete's Hamburgers. If you have never been there, GO! Awesome burgers!

Then we headed over to McGregor to the flea market. I ended up with a really neat vase.

Then we went in to Starks Liquor and Guns! Haha! That was a fun store. I got a Mississippi River Rat Sweat Shirt!

Then we headed off to Pikes Peak. It was packed so we didn't get to spend as much time as we wanted to looking at the view but we did get to hike down to the waterfall. We went behind it and I touched to water (see pictures above!) going back up all the stairs was quite a hike, 1/2 mile up the stairs all the way but we surrvived!

After that we headed back to Prairie Du Chein for dinner. We ate a Huckleberrys. Good food! By the end of the day we were dog tired!
So we came home nice and late!

We sat around and started watching a movie but were to tired so we went to bed.

Sunday we slept in.

When we got up we hung around the house and enjoyed ourselves. We finally headed to town to deliver apples and cheese around 5. Our first stop was at Dusty and Krystals. Where we decided to all go out to dinner. That was fun!
Then we went over to Mom's to take her some apples.

Then headed to Mike's Mom's to take her some apples!

All in All a very appley day!

Last night Mike prepared a very romantic dinner for me. Sat me down with a glass of wine, brought me some salad, cheesey bread, then we ate Cheese Manacotti together! It was very sweet. He also got me flowers! I am so lucky!