Summer Happenings 2009

We've had a great summer so far-Here are
some of our highlights:


Our niece Nevaeh was born on June 8th. Here
are the happy parents, Lisa and Trent, and big
sister Morgan







Camping at Lake Wissota State Park
with Stacy's family.

Ahhh-tent is up!

Enjoying the pontoon on Lake Wissota





Roasting hotdogs-yummy!

The best part of camping-sitting around the fire
talking with family





Taylor and Logan taking care of their school's
rainbow and butterfly garden

Time for watering the flowers






Skate Park Time!








Vacation Bible School (Crocodile Dock) at our
church. Taylor and Logan always have a great time
and end up singing the new songs the rest of summer







Taylor getting ready for Fourth of July
Celebrations






This is Logan's 4th year playing baseball with
Dan as his coach. It's fun to see them both get
excited about game nights.

Catcher Logan

Logan, Dan, and Grandpa after a baseball game

Family Birthday Party for Taylor and Logan

We decided this year to have one family party to celebrate both Taylor and Logan's birthday. Logan turned 9 this year and Taylor turned 10. We always enjoy having family over for food, drink and fun!

Taylor with cousin Kayla


Logan with cousin Kaylie

Calvin says "My Chloe"


"Time for some fishing"


"Cool shirt"


Time to clean up the mess


Grandpa J. holding baby Chloe


"Stacy, why are you taking my picture?"


Taylor and cousin Chad


Logan's turn to blow out 9 candles!


Grandma J. chatting with Grandpa W.


Taylor's turn to blow out 10 candles!



Aunt Lisa's turn to hold Chloe


Dan, Bill and Don having a few

Great concert

Well, last evening, the Eau Claire Chamber Orchestra provided a very nice array of Russian music for a far better than average audience at Grace Lutheran church in Eau Claire.

We performed Borodin's Petite Suite, which is not very petite to be honest. It is a terrific work that is purely Russian Romanticism at it's best, but not very petite...seven movements, which are not lengthy by themselves, but put together, makes for about 30 - 40 minutes of Russian joy. I enjoyed the piece very much as I believe the audience did as well. After intermission, the newest on the piano faculty at UWEC, Nathan Philips, performed Shostakovich's 1st piano concerto. It is actually deemed Concerto for piano, trumpet, and orchestra. Keith Thompson did a marvelous job as the trumpeter and Nathan didn't sound too shabby either :) We ended the concert with Prokofieff's Classical Symphony, which I have seen on Leonard Bernstein's concerts for young people. This piece was both light and frothy, but again, quite meaty. All in all, a fine concert in which I had a great time performing. Hopefully, the audience enjoyed it as well.

Unfortunately, the night did not continue as well due to the fact that we all had to drive home after the concert. Then, at about 1:30 am, Logan comes into our room mentioning he "threw up". Youch!!! Stacy went downstairs and slept on the couch while I was with Logan in our bed. He ended up vomiting another 6 times in the middle of the night and is now sound asleep on the couch as I write this blog. I am hoping this is one of those 24 hour episodes in which he just ate something funky. I am a bit more leary as a co-worker had a sister whose 12 year old son died last month as influenza got into his heart. Not fun!!! We are praying for the best and hope Logan is back up and running around in no time.

Well, that's it for now. I am really liking this blog thing. I may try to write more in the future.

Chloe

Last night, we visited our new born baby cousin/niece and her name is Chloe. She is the daughter of Dan's brother Bill and his wife Angela. Chloe was born on February 19th, 2009. She was 6 lbs, 1 oz and was 19 inches long. She was so cute we couldn't believe our eyes. So enjoy these photos of Chloe.

Christmas photos 2008

Christmas Eve at the Julson's brought up Dan's whole family. We had a wonderful time eating, drinking, playing a bit outside, opening presents, decorating cookies, and chit-chatting about this and that. We loved especially watching the kids decorate cookies and open presents. Here are a few pictures from that terrific day. Enjoy!

'Just a little bit more on this corner.' Kya having fun with decorating.

Calvin eating one of the tasty Christmas tree cookies Grandma helped decorate.

'mmmmm, these are good'



Morgan looking her prettiest.



Kids having fun during dinner.



Family makes the holidays so much more fun.