Playing Kubb last night in Forest Lake with Maria's family.

woohoo

well we did it. my fellow south tigers and I advanced to the state tennis tournament today with a crushing 6-1 victory over the southwest lakers. it was pretty awesome. the section's individual tournament starts tomorrow(friday) morning and concludes on tuesday. the state tournament begins tuesday june 7th at 8am at the 98th street northwest athletic club. it is also the day that I graduate. I will keep you all posted on any further developments.

I think I might have a graduation party or something in the coming months. I'll have to get back to you on that one.

Wedding Fun

Maria and I attended our friend's wedding this weekend in Richfield. We introduced the happy couple in 2001, and they finally tied the knot. Congratulations Nathan and Jeny.

In case anyone wants to see pictures of the big day - check out the links on my blog HERE

Thanks!

Thanks for the birthday wishes. Happy Birthday, Mae! I wish I could come visit you all in Minnesota in June but I will be in Alaska at the Evolution Meetings and possibly getting eaten by a bear. Congratulations to the graduates and best wishes with your future plans.

--Ingrid

Happy Birthday!

I hope you guys have a very happy birthday Mae and Ingrid!

Happy Birthday Mae and Ingrid!

hmmm ... birthday happy, may you have, yes!

Stevie's Prom

Here is stevie's long awaited prom picture. Stevie is on the far left, and his date is right in front of him. If stevie wants, i'll let him comment further.

(Click on the picture to see a bigger version of it)

just had some fun with Paul's birthday photo of grandma/mom. colorized it and cleaned it up a little.. hope you like it!

Mom in 1953 

This is a picture Paul scanned in - this being Mom's birthday month, and just having celebrated Mother's day, it seemed fitting to share it on the blog. Paul notes that Dad wrote on this one Mae and the clouds . . . nice profile . . . 5/31/53.

Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone.. This year my parents gave me some money to spend on what i wanted to get - so what did I get? A Kubb set of course! I even got as ambitious as to paint my kubb set in Swedish colors. Next family outing we'll all have to play!

Happy Birthday Peter! May the Cake be with you.

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Happy birth/mother's day

Happy birthday Peter. Happy Mother's Day Nancy! Thanks to Peter's arrival 29 years ago today Nancy is celebrating her 30th mother's day as a mother. Thanks for all the great mothering. Nancy is celebrating her mother's day by helping her parents for a week while
her mom is rehabilitating from a broken hip and surgery.

Softball

Happy 5/05/05! Happy Cinco de Mayo!
Last night, Matt's church softball team played the Gopher Bar, and Matt won 13 to 6!! His mostly over-40 team beat the 20-something team! Yay! :)

sorry

I dont have any prom pictures yet. Once I get them I will be sure to post them so hold your horses everyone.

Happy Birthday Teresa!

Here's to a happy birthday - sorry i didn't post before!

OK, I'll show you it's done, Stevie...

Liv and Andy before Como's prom (Andy's father had run back home for the flowers which they'd forgotten.)



And what a difference a few days make...

Liv before taking a Greyhound bus to St. Cloud as part of an English writing assignment, April 26


Liv before prom, April 30

Happy Birthday Teresa!!!!

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Joel and Kokomo.

Photographic evidence

Thanks for the nice picture of Stevie playing tennis, Peter. We really want to see a picture of him with his prom date, though, so someone (Stevie?) please share. We will post a picture of Como's fabulous Grand March after next weekend.

I went to watch Steve play tennis at a tournament in Eden Prairie today. I took a few shots of him while he played, here is one of the better ones. Look at the concentration on his face!

To see more photos that I took today click here

I went biking tonight near our house.. It was a beautiful spring day near Shakopee, on the Minnesota River.

JCC

Hey! I got a job as an intern at the Summer Musical Theatre Institute that's at the Sabes JCC in St. Louis Park. Woo-hoo!
----Livvi'i

Changing more than pants?

Mr. Editor: I believe you mean "Norris and Stevie," not "Tom and Stevie."

The Swedish Birthday Song

By popular demand here again is a link to the...
Swedish Birthday Song lyrics and tune!
From Paul:
It is generally referred to as Ja, Må Han Leva! (Yes, May He Live!) Although the subject may also be she or they.

A couple of pronunciation tips. Pronounce 'r' in the front of your mouth. (Not the guttural American way.)

Uti (oot-ee) is one word and so is hundrade (hune drah-dee).

Ungame

Tom and Stevie after switching pants.. why? because they had to - the Ungame said so..:)

EDIT: oops.. it was brought to my attention that this picture was NORRIS and Stevie. That's what I get for blogging so late at night. sorry Norris..

Happy Easter! Han är uppstånden!!

Church of Corpus Christi, Easter Vigil 2005
Hope everyone has a happy and blessed Easter!!

Hi from D.C.

Greetings from our nation's capital. I'm attending the National Immunization Conference and my mommy and daddy are running around town getting into trouble. They greatly enjoyed visiting the Basilica (largest Catholic church in the U.S.) and the just-opened "Faces of the Fallen" at Arlington Cemetery--a rendering of all the faces of men and women who have died in Iraq (by different artists).

Tomorrow our boss is giving a plenary talk (to the big group of about 1,500) and I'm giving a workshop presentation (to about 50-100 people). Then, off to the airport to race home for the Holy Thursday service!

I'll see most of you on Easter. John and Lynda, I'll see you in Decatur in a week... I think I saw some monkey grass today.

March 21st Birthday Wishes

Happy Birthday, Maria!
How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?
Love, Nancy

QoSlIl yItIv!

Happy Birthday, Maria!

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Happy 24th Birthday Maria! I love you.. and a happy first day of spring to everyone else!

Happy Birthday Mom!

I hope you have a wonderful birthday!

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oops! a late invitation

Oops! We are so slow inviting you all to the youth dinner at our church that Joel’s bus driver had to do it!! Don G. drives a university bus and Joel often rides on his bus. We’ve just learned that Don mentioned it before you heard it from us.
Stevie’s youth group (Tom and Beckie are both youth leaders) is having a Mystery
Dinner on Saturday night at 6:00. It is a fundraiser for the summer youth mission trip to New York City. The mystery takes place in the 1930's so you can dress in that fashion for the fun of it, but it’s not required.
The price is $8. per ticket. Call Tom or Nancy to make a reservation by Friday.
We hope y'all can come!

Pod People! On Beyond Blogging!!

The *newest* thing - is Podcasting, kind of like radio blogging! Little sound files that come from amateurs and professional radio sources. They can be music, personal journals, or technical articles. People download them to iPod's or mp3 players and listen to them wherever they choose.

I've been enjoying a number of them - technical interviews, music and such. One I like is by a Dutch priest, Father Roderick Vonhögen, and is called "Catholic Insider." Anyway, I sent him a note last week, and here's what he had to say.

hi ya'll

I played in a tennis tournament at flagship athletic club in eden prairie this weekend. I didnt do very well in singles, but danny wilson(my teammate from school and the 2nd best player in the state) and I won the doubles tournament. we got trophies it was cool. here is a reenactment of the awards ceremony. my trophy is actually bigger than that in real life.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40274000/jpg/_40274115_sampo98.jpg

I HEART NYC (and huckabees)

Hey family! So, I'm home from NYC. Here are some pictures. They are, respectively, of: the entire group dressed up before our performance, our choir in front of Manhattan at the Statue of Liberty, and my friends Ashley, Mary and myself. Here you go:

----Livvi'i

Trip report

Finally, a few pictures from our trip. Here is the Hellerup park outside our hotel before and after a blizzard. It started snowing when we were in Sweden on Saturday, and continued through the night. Usually, I'm the cheap one regarding taxis, but Joel insisted we drag our suitcases through the half mile of snow from the hotel to the train station.



Here we are in Lund, Sweden. Lisa (right) and Carl (left) are Joel, Paul, John, Matt and Mark's third cousins. Marita is their mother. Lisa's boyfriend Erik is taking the picture. They were most gracious and welcoming. We ate two huge meals in one afternoon.

Anderson Family Blog

Happy Birthday John!

Tillykke med fodselsdagen! Grattis på födelsedagen

Happy Birthday John! (that's Happy Birthday in Danish and Swedish, but you knew that!)

Oops! Missed it by *that* much! But, hey, we just flew in from Copenhagen - and are our arms *TIRED*!

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They were wonderful! Let's hope we can convince them to
come visit us all!

Happy Birthday, JOHN!!

Happy Birthday, John!
And Happy Valentine's Day tomorrow to one and all!
Is this a great family, or what!

Cold Copenhagen

Sitting at the train station, using up our minutes, even though we discovered a free computer in the "business center" of our hotel (a lobby a few feet from our room, with artwork and one PC). We had a few minutes of sun today, but it's still quite blustery walking. We took the train up north a bit to "Louisiana," the modern art museum that Gustaf took Norris to six years ago. Tomorrow we will hop on the train going south and venture into Sweden to meet the relatives.

"Know it? Why, I was a boy here!"

Not quite - but a day rambling around Copenhagen made me feel like Scrooge when he said that, since I was here working for 6 weeks 20 years ago. Teresa and I spent yesterday walking around Copenhagen streets. It was weirdly familiar - I couldn't tell you how to find things here, but.... walking around I'd think "there should be a bookstore here..." and there would be! (Or a Burger King, or a church.... whatever - my memory of twenty years was remarkably accurate).''

Today Teresa is at her WHO meeting (we walked around Hellerup last night, locating her meeting place and then eating at a Pizza joint). Lots of bicycle traffic in town and in our more suburban location, even today when it was a bit rainy.

I'm in Copenhagen today, with plans to wander around some more to see the sites - not just sit in the train station on the internet.

Happy 40th!

Smile for the camera Matt - being 40 ain't so bad!

And the icing on the cake!

Thanks to everyone who came to the celebration of Matt's 40th Birthday! For those who weren't here and didn't see the cake - we asked Liv's friend Andy's family bakery to come up with something to incorporate "Aliens, Birthday and Sweden" and here's what they did! Matt put together a great slide show, too - a very touching look back! Happy Birthday again, Matt!

Happy Birthday Matt!

Happy 40th Birthday Matt! We'll see everyone tonight..

Here's a picture of our little Nala, who just got back from being "fixed" this morning. She's recovering nicely for those who are wondering!

Happy Birthday Matt!

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Have some cake, and many happy returns!!!

Happy Groundhog's Day everyone! Looks like its 6 more weeks of winter - Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow today!

Sow's ear into silk purse?

Liv has started knitting with plastic "yarn" (made by cutting up plastic shopping bags into thin strips). Here is a purse she designed herself. It is fastened with a plastic bottle cap.

Matt plays bass

Hope to see you at Matt's 40th Bday party at 5 P.M., Feb. 5, at Joel and Teresa's house. Also, if you have time at 3:00 P.M. on Sunday, Feb. 6, come hear me sing in our choir concert...and hear Matt play bass guitar in the Fairmount Ave. Church band. :)

raw hermanion

greetings to the anderson family from the AmericInn in rochester, mn. I am in a tennis tournament down here at the Rochester Athletic Club. I won both of my matches last night(one of them by default) and I will play again today at 2. it is prett boring. I dont really enjoy tennis tournaments too much. but it is good for me, I guess. I have about three and a half hours until my match against harry whitely, so I should probably go read a book or something like that. well I hope that everyone has a good weekend and so on and so forth.

I love the snow so much. it is amazing.

Disney World

Hi:

Joel asked me to post his montage of Disney pictures. We had a good time with Norris, although the weather got cold and rainy in the second half of the week.

Our favorite quote comes from a man on our bus pontificating about the wonders of Disney World to his fellow travelers: "I can't believe people who feel they have to visit Universal Studios when there's so much to do here. I ask them, 'Have you eaten in every restaurant? Have you urinated in every restroom?'"

Cold Day in Minnesota

Cold Day in Minnesota:


Temperatures plummeted across the eastern half of the nation Monday, approaching an all-time record in northern Minnesota and freezing the Gulf Coast as a river of Arctic air pushed southward.

Thermometers registered a low of 54 degrees below zero at Embarrass, Minn.

"You keep living, but it gets old after a while," said Christine Mackai, the town clerk for the community of about 1,400 people in northeast Minnesota.

Minnesota's record is 60 below, set on Feb. 2, 1996, in Tower, about 10 miles north of Embarrass.

believe it toots

somebody gave me a pipe tonight, so I am gonna be able to smoke lots more things now(if you know what I'm sayin). just kidding. but honestly, I think that pipes are pretty cool. they are better than cigarettes because they smell a lot better and you dont inhale and they dont have nicotene and stuff. so its pretty sweet. people like me and cs lewis are really into that kind of thing. well, have a goodnight everyone.

PETE'S UPDATE:



I received a picture of stevie and his new pipe (also wearing his monacle). Here he is..

Adult behavior?

I am shocked, Stevie! Perhaps you are trying all vices in case you get accepted to Bethel and have to take the pledge like Tom. Maybe you should take an entire "wild oats" year like Amish young men.

Our Anderson gift exchange last night just slipped in under the wire. We missed Epiphany, but today was the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, and officially, the last day of the Christmas liturgical season. You will have to celebrate something else when you get your present from Stevie, John.

Here is stevie after taking a drag on the cigarette. Not too good is it? :)

freedom

today, my eighteenth birthday, I bought some cigarettes and smoked them up real good. well, actually I only smoked one and I couldnt finish it cause it was too gross. I just bought them for the sake of buying them, not to smoke. the sad thing was, the guy didnt even card me, so it didnt matter that I was 18. whatever. goodnight.

Grandma and Grandpa's 65th Anniversary

The Anderson-Holmes Christmas/65th Anniversary in Illinois. As you can see we had a good time!

UPDATE: Mom and Dad (and anyone else who wants to see them), you can view all the photos from Grandma and Grandpa's anniversary HERE. Also, if you want to print out any of these photos you can download them, and burn them to a CD - stevie will help you, right stevie?

Happy New Year!

Here's to a happy and healthy 2005 for all of the Anderson Clan!

On a side note, can someone post Ingrid's current address - her present got sent back as undeliverable. thanks!

UPDATE: received Ingrid's address now (from Ingrid).. thanks!

Happy New Year

I hope everyone had a great new year! 05!
Liv

Holiday wishes from the Georgia Andersons

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all! We had a nice Georgia Anderson family reunion last weekend, but missed you all of course. Mae and I are now back at work but we had a nice break. I'm posting the family picture in lieu of a cute dog pic, until we get a cute dog.
Ingrid

Merry Christmas from San Francisco!

We hope all of you Andersons are having a Merry Christmas! Delphi Tangonan sends his best.

Merry Christmas to one and all!

Happy 58th Birthday Dad!

I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas - and we'll see many of you tomorrow at my parent's house! MERRY CHRISTMAS!


Indian Christians celebrate Christmas at the Church of
the Nativity, in Bethlehem. The Church is the site
traditionally believed by many to be the birthplace of
Jesus Christ.

'dey're so cute when 'dey're little.....

Merry Christmas from Mark, John and Paul in 1953.. (note: John says he thinks it is 1952).

Norwegian bounty

Liv's "friend" and his father stopped by this afternoon on the way home from their bakery. We are overwhelmed by Scandinavian goodies!

Happy Birthday Mark!!

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God Bless Us Everyone

Merry Christmas, family!
----Livvi'i

Andersons Past

Paul has been working on a collection of old family photos which is quite impressive! He gave me a preview. Here is a picture of Ernest and Emil Anderson from around 1898 or so. Ernest was the grandfather of some of us Andersons.

Christmas @ the The Cheescake Factory

Last night the Anderson's of Minneapolis/Shakopee had a pre-Christmas Christmas celebration at The Cheesecake Factory. Mmmmm, the food sure was good. Hope to see you all on Christmas - and if not, Merry Christmas!

UPDATE: Here's Tom enjoying his new gift - the head-mounted laser gun. You're welcome Tom!

Joel, you've figured it out... your artists rendition was actually very close to how she actually looks. Here is an actual photo of Nala the Ewok princess. :) (watch out, it IS turning into cute dog blog.)

Dog.... or alien?

IS it possible that Nala is really an undercover Ewok?!?

Congratulations!

Congratulations, Liv! Go Northfield! That's awesome--I wish you the best of a collegiate career at the school across the river. Have a tea at Blue Mondays for me, and don't spend too many nights at the Reub.

Ingrid

P.S. Nala is so cute! So is Koko. This is going to turn into the cute dog blog soon.

Um Ya Ya

For those who might not understand the Um Ya Ya reference, that is St. Olaf's "fight" song... the only one in the nation written in waltz tempo. To read the words or listen to a rendition, go to: http://www.stolaf.edu/about/umyahyah.html

hmm

thats good liv. congratulations. mctc is really looking attractive to me right now. so come september I'll be heading on down there. heck, I should probably just take a year off first, or maybe two...

Um Ya Ya

Well, today I got that envelope. I've been accepted Early Decision to St. Olaf so I'll be heading down there come September! UM YA YA!
----Livvi'i

We've realized that we no longer need a paper shredder at our house - Nala does a fine job.

Thanks for the fun...

Hi everybody!
Thanks for the funny and fun blogs. I'm really glad, Matt, you explained it was a reenactment. Everybody's getting in the Christmas spirit. It makes me want to get a tree before Christmas Eve. Thanks for the great Thanksgiving Day Joel and Teresa, and a fun birthday celebration. I also wanted to congratulate Liv on her great performance and the enjoyable evening at the Seussical. Happy December and a blessed Advent season. Love, Nancy

When Trees Attack

Janelle was looking at our new giant tree in our living room last night..."I could stare at this tree all night," she said. Seconds later I heard a thundering crash, and the tree had tipped over, spilling ornaments, needles and water all over the floor...the picture above is a dramatic reenactment!

Christmas Spirit

Koko isn't the only one getting into the Christmas spirit! Last night we took down all of the thanksgiving decorations, and set up all of our Christmas decor.. Here's our Christmas tree - it definitely turned out very well. (sorry - no cute dog pics this time)

The Ghost of Christmas Present(s)?

Koko gets in the spirit!

Koko wishes everyone a happy first Sunday of Advent!

Giving Thanks!

Thanks to all who made this a great 50th Birthday! Here's a picture Paul found from one of my earlier birthdays(like maybe 47 years ago?):

HAPPY 50th BIRTHDAY, DADDY!!!
And happy thanksgiving to the rest of ya'll!
----Livvi'i

Does Not Compute

Hmmm.... as someone who actually comes from the year 1954, I can report that that computer picture (unlike the pix of the Swedish spacehip) is a a joke. (The picture is actually an entry submitted to an image modification competition.)

Yumpin' Yiminy - there goes another one!

Those Swedes blast off again!

The scientific rocket Maxus 6 was successfully launched from Esrange today (11/22/2004). Everything proceeded as planned and the scientists are looking forward to some exciting analysis of the data.

The rocket was launched from the Swedish Space Corporation rocket base Esrange at 08.35 UT and reached 706 km which enabled 12 minutes of microgravity.

Swedes Reach the Moon!

Click on the image above to see the lonnnnng, slow route that was taken to get to the moon. Thrifty Swedes, they reached the moon with lots of fuel left over!

SMART-1 is the first of ESA's 'Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology'. It reached the Moon using revolutionary propulsion techniques and carrying a battery of miniaturised instruments. (click here for ESA web page about SMART-1).

Launched by the ESA last year, this is a Swedish built spacecraft and is only the second ever using an ion-drive as its main rocket.

Mae in NYC

Hi, Andersons,

I saw Mae in NYC last Saturday night. I was there for a conference. Mae, my brother Terrell, his girlfriend Jen, and I all went out to Dragonfly, a Filipino restaurant in Greenwich Village. Then, we went to Cafe Reggio, and then we went to Upright Citizens Brigade, a standup comedy and improv group. Fun show. It was great to see Mae. I had a whirlwind trip, but NY was fun.

Janelle

Partylite Candle Party

Hi Anderson Ladies,
I sent out an e-mail to each of you inviting you to my candle party on Saturday, Nov. 20. If you could please let me know if you can come, I would really appreciate it. It should be a really great time and I would love it if you all could come. It will be at my house in Shakopee at 2:30 p.m. Talk to you soon!

~Maria

Seussical! Two more shows - don't miss it!!

Mayzie says - Come to the show


Just a reminder that the Como High production of Seussical has two more performances left (Saturday, November 13, 7:30 pm and Sunday, November 14, 2:00 pm; Tickets: $7 adults/ $5 students/seniors).

Lots of fun and good music!

aurora borealis

I definitely saw it. I promise. I was hanging out with john madsen and jason mord on sunday night. Jason mentioned noticing crazy green lights on his way to my house from golden valley, but I thought he was just crazy. but later on that night we went on top of the madsen's garage and saw the amazing lights in the sky. what a treat.

Northern Lights

Did anyone else see the amazing northern lights that we had tonight here in Minnesota? Here is a picture I took of them.. Sooo beautiful! 

Anniversary party

Thanks to all who attended our thirtieth anniversary party last saturday at Salem Church making it a wonderful day for Nancy and me. A special thanks to Peter for the fantastic video. Thanks to Maria, Tom and Stevie for appearing on the video and for all your help. The Anderson clan has been richly blessed for so many years. We have a wonderful heritage. Praise the Lord!

Leo Strauss?

I did not send this message, which Joel alerted me to. In fact, I've never seen this material or heard of Leo Strauss. Has someone hijacked my Anderblogger identity?

I did send a blog mentioning seeing Teresa and Janelle's opus "Needle Tips" in the break room at CDC. I did see one person reading it, by the way...


UPDATE: This is Peter, since you didn't write it John, I'll remove the post. I'm not sure how that post got under your username? In any event, the post will be removed. If you want a new password, let me know at onebigswede at hotmail.com

CDC

Thanks for the news, John. Were the "Needle Tips" being used to wipe up spills or something in the break room? At least you didn't find them in the restroom, a la the old Sears Roebuck catalog.

Welcome Andersons

As I was reading John's blog I realized we have something in common. I was just heating a cup of water in the microwave... I wish y'all out-of-staters could come to our 30th anniversary get- together. Just a reminder to Minnesotans...
2-5 p.m. Saturday, October 30th at our church at 31st. St. and 14th Av. Just cake and punch, same as 30 years ago! No gifts.
Mark and I had a great dinner on the 26th at Famous Dave's. It was quite different than I had envisioned it. At least 6 times, different people came to ask us how our meal was. Do we look like someone who works for the Taste section, or what? Nancy

Needle tips in CDC

Hey Anderbloggers,
It's been a while since I posted, but I thought I'd report that while I was heating a cup of water in the microwave in the 4th floor break room I found a pile of a publication called "Needle Tips." On page 2 Janelle is listed as Editorial Assistant and Teresa as "Consultant". Thought you'd like to know that your work has made it over to the dark side...

J.

Its been a wet cold rainy few days here - but the fall colors are nice..