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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(Use the fork, Peter! Use the fork!)

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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from me and the hound dog!
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).