Thursday, April 23, 2015

Flying with Daniel


A few Sundays ago Daniel took an airplane up to give it some exercise, and he wanted to know if I would like to ride along. He didn't even need to ask!! It was quite the experience! I had a ton of fun. When we flew over the house, it was weird to think that my family was in there, carrying on with their Sunday afternoon like normal, when I was waaaaaay up in the air!
     We flew to Wisconsin and landed on some runway thingy, took a potty break, and some pictures and flew back!

the house 
Daniel and I with our most becoming headphones on! 

landed in Wisconsin 





Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Aaron Lance Schmell

Meet my newest nephew, Aaron Lance Schmell! He was born on February 14th at 10:48pm. 




 Aaron was born in Brant's truck, after a romantic evening eating out together on Valentine's day!

Exited big brother!
Aaron Lance










Saturday, February 21, 2015

Cross Country Skiing on Presidents Day with the Funks

Interesting bits of the day 

Talking the whole way to and from Decorah with Lydia and Esther

Watching the snow fall as we slid along the icy ground 

Finding a very dead deer

Getting slightly lost

Planting a clementine tree ;) 

Climbing down a very steep, icy hill with drop-offs on either side!

Climbing over fences with skis on (which may or may not have been private property)

Skiing for a total of four and a half hours

Eating Mexican afterwards, ordering shrimp soup, and nearly dying from how spicy it was!

Being able to spend the whole day with good friends!  










Friday, February 20, 2015

Evening With Emily

My Saturday night a few weeks ago was spent with my sister Emily, restaurant hopping, snickering, and watching Dick Van Dyke shows. Since Mom and Dad were going to be gone to Energy's christmas party, I asked Emily if she wanted to come over and watch the movie Frozen with me. I never did get a response, but she texted mom instead and told her that she would be picking me up to eat out, then come back and watch Frozen. You can imagine how exited I was! Unfortunately I was greatly in need of a shower, and she was coming in half an hour! Now, I take about 45 minute showers.  So when it only took fifteen minutes, that was doing really well! Thankfully I was ready to go when she arrived a little early.
    We were planing to eat at Olive Garden, but after we elbowed our way through the door, the waiter told us that we would have to wait fifty minutes.  FIFTY MINUTES?? No thanks!
   Still envisioning the buttery breadsticks and salad in our minds, we went over to Applebees… and came right back out when we saw how long the lines were. We ended up at Perkins, where we were served omelets, hash browns, and as a side I had got pancakes and Emily got a large muffin. :D  after finishing our feast Emily and I waddled back outside, following our stomachs back to the car. We stopped by Walmart on the way back home and bought two rather large ice cream cups for our movie.
     When we had got back home all tucked in our squishy chairs with our ice cream in hand, I stuck our movie in just to find that it wouldn't work! :( So we decided to  watch Dick Van Dyke shows until mom and dad came home about forty five minutes later. I must say it was grand to be able to hang out with my older sister for an evening! :oD

Friday, January 23, 2015

January All Summed Up (almost! :)

The New Years Eve Dance!! 
Swing Dancing with Lydia
The Bunny Hop! 
New years church day

eating before  we swam and/or sledded! 

Esther, myself, Lydia 
warming up 

"Hang on Essie!! " 




Nathan's Big Birthday Bash 
The birthday boy inhaling his cupcake

All seven kids in the kitchen eating carrots.
(I wish I could remember what Josh and Daniel were talking about!) 
me and my very serious brothers! ;)



Geocaching with Ruth and Josiah



Josiah holding up the list of everyone who found it before us! 

adding our name to the list 

Josiah looking. 

AH HA!! 

I found it!! 


Tuesday, January 13, 2015

The Christmas Season

putting up the tree...
with Uncle Ben and Kolatches! 
 the christmas program
getting my ornament from Jerry 



christmas eve 



;)
Gabe and his new treasures 

christmas day  





Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving… spent at my Uncle Dean's home  


Where the "kids" ate 

A handful of the cousins


Pingpong! Thanksgiving tradition