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.
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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.

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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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We had a great time visiting the relatives in Lund!
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.