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Here's a photo album of our Pequot Lakes adventures.

Short vacation

Hi all,

Sorry to hear about Buddy.

Joel and I just returned from Paul Bunyan country too. We planned on camping two nights and staying in a motel the last night, but we ended up camping only one night as it was extremely buggy everywhere but our tent (and it was hard to read with our fading flashlight). The motel near Pequot Lakes was great, though--and right across the highway from the Paul Bunyan state bike trail. So during our 3.5 day trip, we canoed, hiked, biked (to Nisswa and Pine River), played minigolf on TWO courses, swam, and climbed a fire tower! Pretty athletic for us. The motel also had extensive grounds with a beautiful patio and gardens, play equipment, a sand volleyball court, and a fire pit. Perhaps a place for an Anderson reunion sometime?

Rest in peace old friend

Buddy, originally uploaded by onebigswede.

Mom, dad Maria and I were with Buddy this afternoon as he peacefully took his last breath at the Woodlake Veterinary Hospital.

Buddy had been sick for a while now, and had gotten progressively worse this past week or two. He had gotten to the point where he really couldn't walk without a huge amount of pain.

This afternoon mom called and said that they were going to have to put buddy to sleep. He was in too much pain, and it was his time.

He was a good dog all the way til the end, he never flinched, and just peacefully put his head down and went to sleep.

We'll miss you Buddy, you were a good boy.

News from Carroll Ave.

Hi, Anderson Family,

Saw Joel's show. It was great! Thanks to Tom and Beckie for babysitting Maizie.

Janelle has lived in Minnesota 7 years, wow!

Janelle's mom is coming to visit August 21-Sept. 4.

Looking forward to Janelle's brother's wedding in November, and Maizie's second birthday!

In Brainerd for our anniversary

IMG_0027-1, originally uploaded by onebigswede.

Maria and I went to the Brainerd Lakes area this past weekend to celebrate our anniversary. We were going to go on our anniversary weekend last month, but unfortunately Grandma passed away and her funeral was on our anniversary.

We ended up having a wonderful time this past weekend though relaxing in Crosslake, MN at a beautiful new resort hotel called the Whitefish Lodge and Suites. We even got one of our nights comped when they lost our reservation. Woohoo!

There's no business like show business (or dueling posters on the refrigerator)

Hope to see you at one or both of these shows!

Cousins

Rest in Peace - Katherine Holmes

I just heard the bad news today from Stevie that our Grandma Katherine Holmes has passed away this afternoon. I don't know any more details than that, but just thought I would share with everyone so that they can pray for the family. She will be greatly missed. We love you Grandma.

Here she is in a light moment a few years ago with Grandpa DeWayne.

Hanging on for dear life...

Last fall we dug up our rhubarb and moved it out of the way before the garage work started. For eight months, we've had pallets loaded with bricks out behind the garage. Today our neighbor started moving them, and I discovered this sad little rhubarb plant still alive under the wood and bricks.

Qapla'!

Matt's friend George said he saw a reference to MrKlingon.org in the May 2008 Reader's Digest, so I had to check it out - and there it WAS! As part of "What's Your America IQ?" by Andy Simmons, there was a section of famous quotes to identify. To make it hard, each quote was run through an online translator, in this case my "Universal Translator Assistant." Here it is - Lt. Worf channeling Patrick Henry.

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday, Mae and Ingrid!

Matt, Janelle, and Maizie

Happy Birthday Mae & Ingrid!

Happy Birthday Mae & Ingrid! I hope you both had a wonderful birthday!

Almost done...

We're almost done with the garage project, although we still have to have the floor re-poured because of problems with the mix. But it's nice to have a real fence and gate instead of an orange plastic snow fence to squeeze through!

Happy birthday

Happy 32nd birthday, Peter!

Plans

Hi,
Good to read that Maria is home now.
Lots of stuff happening. I'll be celebrating my 2nd Mother's Day on Sunday. Yay.
Matt, Maizie, and I are going to San Francisco May 20-25. I'm going for a work conference, and Maizie will get to stay with her grandparents. Looking forward to the trip.
It will be 6 years for Matt and me on May 25. Wow.
My brother and Jen have set a wedding date....Nov. 2 in Leesburg, Virginia.
That is the other big trip we're planning.

Have a good spring!
Janelle

happy LIVth birthday!

Happy birthday, Mom!

Please pray for Maria

For updates on Maria's condition, please go to:

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/mariaanderson

promotion

Hey Family.
I just found out today that I got a promotion and I will not only be teaching yoga and powerflow (a yoga/pilates fusion class) again in the fall, but I am UW's new mind-body coordinator! I'm basically just going to be leading trainings, meetings and doing scheduling. I'm pretty pumped.
Get well, Maria! I'm thinking of you,
Liv

Maybe Spring is here...