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  • ►2026
    • ►August
      • Smoky Mountain National Park: July 16
      • Smoky Mountain National Park: July 15
      • Congaree NP: July 14
    • ►July
      • Disney: July 13
      • Disney: July 12
      • Disney: July 11
      • Disney: July 10
      • Disney: July 9
      • Panama City; July 8
      • Nashville; July 7
  • ►2022
    • ►May
      • Happy 6th Birthday Mason!
  • ►2021
    • ►May
      • Homeschooling 2018-2019: First and Last day
    • ►April
      • Sophia Summer Play 2019
      • Baseball 2019: Noah and Amelia
      • Big Fish Lake - 2019
      • Florida Keys - June 2019
      • Fort Lauderdale - 2019
    • ►March
      • Meet Lilly
      • Children's Museum-2019
      • Easter 2019
      • Crayola Experience - Feb 2019
      • Christmas at St. John's - 2018
    • ►February
      • Christmas Tree and Pageant 2018
      • Orchard 2018
      • We're back / Halloween 2018
  • ►2019
    • ►November
      • Ice Rink 2018
    • ►October
      • Wild Season 2018-2019: Girls game
      • Nashville Trip Part II
    • ►September
      • Nashville Trip Part 1 - Mammoth Cave National Park / Grand Ole Opry
      • Mezzanine
      • Fun with hair!
      • Valleyfair: 2018
    • ►August
      • 2018 Cold Spring Parade
      • Swimming Lessons: Summer 2018
      • Squeezo: Applesauce and tomato sauce 2018
      • 2018 Garden Update
    • ►July
      • Minnesota State Fair: 2018
      • County Fairs: 2018
    • ►June
      • Elm Creek Park Reserve: August 18, 2018
      • Minnehaha Falls: August 18, 2018
      • Brainerd/Baxter: August 2018 (Part 2)
      • Brainerd/Baxter: August 2018 (Part 1)
    • ►April
      • Tuckaway Resort: August 2018
    • ►March
      • Big Fish Lake: Part 2
      • Garden - Spring 2018
    • ►February
      • Field Trip to the Great Lakes Aquarium: 2018
      • Kittens! 2018
      • Blueberry picking: 2018
    • ►January
      • Charles Lindbergh House and Museum Field Trip
      • Big Fish Lake 2018: Part 1
      • Minnesota Zoo: May 2018
      • Strawberry picking: 2018
  • ►2018
    • ►December
      • Last Day of School: 2017-2018
      • Merry Christmas!
      • Amelia dance: 2018
      • Happy Birthday kids!
      • TWIP: Spring Indoor
      • Mason Spring Update
    • ►November
      • TWIP: Spring Outdoors
      • First Communion: Sophia
      • Easter 2018
      • Wild - 03/25/2018
      • Chicken Clean-up
    • ►October
      • Puzzle fun!
      • Wild - 02/13/2018
      • March Birthdays - Water Park Fun!
      • TWIP: Winter/Early Spring Round-Up
      • Ice Rink: Winter 2017-2018
    • ►August
      • Basketball
      • TWIP: Fall/Winter Round-up
    • ►July
      • Field Trip to the Children's Museum
      • Bowling: 12/26/17
      • Oh Christmas Tree: 2017
      • Wild - 01/02/2018
    • ►June
      • 2017 Garden Update
      • Fall/1st snowfall of 2017-2018 season
      • Christmas as St. John's: 2017
    • ►May
      • First day of school 2017-2018
      • Wild - 12/12/2017
      • Bentleyville-2017
      • Christmas City Express Train-2017
    • ►April
      • Happy Halloween 2017
      • Wild - October 24, 2017
      • Orchard 2017 Update
      • TWIP: Misc late summer/fall pics
    • ►March
      • TWIP: Blueberries and a Parade
      • Kittens
      • Pole Shed
      • TWIP: Summer/Fall 2017
      • Sophia: hair donation 2017
    • ►February
      • State Fair 2018
      • Glacier National Park - Part X, and Billings, Montana
      • GLACIER NATIONAL PARK – PART IX
      • GLACIER NATIONAL PARK – PART VIII
    • ►January
      • GLACIER NATIONAL PARK – PART VII
      • Glacier National Park – Part VI
      • Glacier National Park – Part V
      • Glacier National Park – Part IV
      • Glacier National Park - Part III
  • ►2017
    • ►December
      • Glacier National Park - Part II
      • Merry Christmas!
      • Glacier National Park - Part 1
      • Frogtown/Splash pad 2017
    • ►November
      • 4th of July
      • TWIP: Summer Pics
      • Lake Fun
      • TWIP: Spring 2017
      • 2016-2017 school year
      • Noah Baseball: Summer 2017
    • ►October
      • Goodbye Zeus
      • Kittens 2017: Part 2
      • Swimming: Summer 2017
    • ►September
      • February in Nebraska
      • Chickens - 2017
      • Kittens 2017
    • ►August
      • Easter 2017
      • Sophia: Basketball 2016-2017
      • This week in....HAIR!
      • Birthday Parties! Amelia and Mason 2017
      • A little bit country and a little bit rock and roll
      • 30 day hair challenge: Part 3
      • Birthday parties! Sophia and Noah 2017
      • Clarkson College Graduate!
    • ►July
      • TWIP: Spring Outdoors
    • ►June
      • Let's Go Wild! 2016-2017 Season, Part 2
      • 30 Day Hair Challenge: Part 2
      • TWIP: Winter months
    • ►May
      • Christmas at St. John's: 2016
      • Let's go Wild! 2016-2017 Season, part 1
      • Happy 1st Birthday Mason!
      • Mason: 11 months
      • Happy 3rd Birthday Amelia!
      • Bentlyville 2016
      • Oh Christmas Tree! 2016
    • ►April
      • TWIP: Winter Fun, and Kittens!
      • Mason: 10 months
      • Strike!
    • ►March
      • Rink
      • Happy 7th Birthday Sophia!
      • Mason: 9 months
      • Happy 5th Birthday Noah!!!
      • Summer Pics
    • ►February
      • Halloween: 2016
      • Fall pictures
      • Fall Pictures
      • Mason: 8 months
      • Weather
    • ►January
      • Refresh
      • First day of school: 2016
      • Mason: 7 months
      • 30 Day Hair Challenge: Part 1
  • ►2016
    • ►December
      • Summer Splash Pad
      • Merry Christmas!
      • Trip up north
      • Parades
    • ►November
      • Mason: 6 months
      • Crayola Experience
      • Kitten Update
      • The Year of the Tomato
    • ►October
      • Mill City Museum
      • Picking, Preparing, and Processing
      • State Fair 2016
      • Mason: 4 months
      • Benton County Fair - 2016
      • Stearns County Fair 2016
    • ►September
      • Orchard Update
      • Kittens
      • Puzzles, puzzles, and more puzzles!
      • St. John's Christmas: 2015
      • Christmas Concerts: 2015-2016 school year
    • ►August
      • Christmas Eve: 2015
      • Oh Christmas Tree: 2015
      • Halloween: 2015
      • Annual Wild Game: 2015-2016 season
      • Sophia dance recital 2016
      • Mason: 11 weeks
      • Going home...
    • ►July
      • TWIP - Outside Fun
      • Early Spring, Outside
      • Ear Tubes: Sophia
    • ►June
      • Mason: 6 weeks
      • Princess
      • Mason meets the Family
    • ►May
      • Meet Mason James
      • Pregnancy #4: 40 weeks
      • TWIP: Kids
      • Pregnancy #4: Week 38
    • ►April
      • Pregnancy #4: Week 37
      • Pregnancy #4: Week 36
      • MN State Fair: 2015
      • TWIP: Miscellaneous
    • ►March
      • Pregnancy# 4: 32 weeks
      • Winter Fun
      • TWIP: Fruit
      • Ice/Hockey Rink
      • Garden Update 2015 / Outside Pics
    • ►February
      • Stearns County Fair: 2015
      • Pregnancy #4: 28 week up-date
      • Nebraska Play
      • Parades
      • Rocky Mountain National Park - Kids Pics
      • New hairdos
    • ►January
      • Pregnancy #4: 24 weeks
      • Five New Friends
      • TWIP: Misc Summer Pics
      • Baby #4: Another boy!
      • Princeton, NJ
      • Water Fun - Summer 2015
  • ►2015
    • ►December
      • Orchard through August
      • Merry Christmas!
      • Rocky Mountain National Park / Denver - Part 5
      • Rocky Mountain National Park - Part 4
      • Pregnancy #4: 17 weeks
      • Sophia swimming lessions 2015
      • Rocky Mountain National Park - Part 3
      • Sandbox and See-Saw
    • ►November
      • Rocky Mountain National Park - Part 2
      • Rocky Mountain National Park - Part 1
      • Sophia dance recital 2015
      • TWIP: Kids Outside
      • TWIP: Kids Spring Update
      • Surprise! Baby #4 is on the way!
      • Spring Chicken Continuation
      • Amelia - Spring Pics
    • ►October
      • Garden Update
      • Fruit Harvest
      • Zion National Park - Day 2
    • ►September
      • Zion National Park
    • ►August
      • Viva Las Vegas
      • Springtime Fun
    • ►July
      • TWIP: More random photos
      • Winter catch-up
      • TWIP: Random indoor winter pictures
      • TWIP: Random early spring/late winter
      • Easter 2014
    • ►June
      • Eddie illness, and Chickens
      • Minnesota Wild Game #2
      • Minnesota Wild Game #1
    • ►May
      • Spring Chickens
      • TWIP: Winter months
      • Birthdays
    • ►April
      • Amelia: 11 months
      • Happy Birthday, Sophia!
      • Happy Birthday, Noah!
      • Amelia: 9/10 month update
    • ►March
      • Aaaaand we're back. Skating
      • Sophia's Preschool Christmas Program
      • TWIP: Kids at play
    • ►February
      • Christmas: Part 2
      • Christmas: Part 1
      • St. John's Christmas
    • ►January
      • Amelia: 8 months
      • Garden/Orchard update
      • Sophia and Noah Christmas Photos/Update
      • Amelia: 7 month update
  • ►2014
    • ►December
      • Freshly Cut
      • Summer catch-up 2014: Two Rivers Campground
      • Chicken Update
    • ►November
      • The Great Minnesota Get-Together:2014
      • Amelia: 6 month
      • County Fairs
      • TWIP: Summer
      • Trick-or-treat 2014
    • ►October
      • ...The Good Life
      • Amelia: 4-5 Month update
      • Videos
      • TWIP: July
    • ►September
      • Chinese Proverb
      • Summer friends
      • Paul Bunyan Land / Crow Wing County Fair
    • ►August
      • First Road Trip: Part 2
      • Beantown
      • First road trip: Part 1
      • Garden Update
      • Amelia: 3 months
      • 4th of July...a little late
    • ►July
      • Amelia: 2+ months
      • Strawberry Season
      • Avon Parade 2014
      • Swinging
      • Amelia Baptism
    • ►June
      • Amelia: 6 weeks
      • Sophia's First Time Fishing
      • We Are Stars!
      • TWIP: Kids
      • Amelia: 1 month
      • Spring Fun
      • Going home...first few days
    • ►May
      • A few more hospital photos
      • More visitors and Amelia's first bath
      • Sophia and Noah meet Amelia
      • Meet Amelia Susanne
      • Pregnancy #3: 39 weeks
    • ►April
      • Pregnancy #3: 37 weeks
      • Pregnancy#3: 36 weeks
      • Team of 18,000
      • Birthdays
    • ►March
      • TWIP: Kids
      • Pregnancy #3: Week 32
      • Happy Birthday Noah and Sophia!
      • Pregnancy #3: 28 weeks
      • Happy Anniversary!
    • ►February
      • Winter Fun
      • TWIP: Kids
      • Pregnancy #3: 24 weeks
      • Garden Update
    • ►January
      • Sophia update: January 2014
      • "Concrete jungle where dreams are made"
      • St. John's Annual Christmas: 2013
      • Baby #3: 20 weeks
      • CANADA - Part 8
  • ►2013
    • ►December
      • Christmas Adventures
      • O Christmas Tree: 2013
      • Baby #3: 16 weeks
      • CANADA - Part 7
    • ►November
      • CANADA - Part 6
      • CANADA - Part 5
      • CANADA - Part 4
      • Surprise! Baby #3 is on the Way!
      • CANADA - Part 3
    • ►October
      • Happy Halloween 2013!
      • CANADA - Part 2
      • CANADA - Part 1
      • Fair Season
      • Garden/Orchard Update
    • ►September
      • Como Zoo 2013
      • The District
      • TWIP: More Outside
      • Sophia's First Day of Preschool
      • TWIP: Outside Fun
    • ►August
      • Garden Update: Daddy's helper
      • Noah: 15 months
      • Beach: Part 2
      • Strawberry Season
    • ►July
      • Beach: part 1
      • Orchard Update
      • Garden Update
      • TWIP: Outside Part II
      • TWIP: Outside
    • ►June
      • Orchard / Trees
      • Chickens: Butchering
      • Sophia's first hair cut
      • More Chicks Continued...
    • ►May
      • Happy belated Easter!
      • Spring
      • Sophia: 3 years
      • More Chicks
    • ►April
      • Sophia: 1st Dentist Appointment
      • Check ups
      • A Wild Win
      • Easter Arrival
      • Winter Catch Up
      • TMIP: Outside
    • ►March
      • Noah: 1 year
      • Noah's 1st Haircut / TWIP
      • Easter Chicks
      • Appendicitis
      • Birthday Party!
      • Playset - Part 2
      • The Big Apple
    • ►February
      • Noah: 11 Months
      • Sunset
      • Slip, slop, slide
      • Skating
    • ►January
      • Jump, Jump, Jump!
      • Dirty Laundry
      • Noah: Look at me go!
      • Noah:10 Months
      • Christmas Baking
      • Christmas Part III
      • Christmas Celebration: Part 2
  • ►2012
    • ►December
      • Christmas Celebration
      • Noah: 9 Months
      • Garden and Outside Wrap-up
      • Trim the Tree
      • Here Comes Santa Claus!
    • ►November
      • Mouse Hunt
      • Thanksgiving
      • September Rewind
      • Noah: 8 Months
      • New Roof
    • ►October
      • Happy Halloween
      • Mile-High
      • Noah: 7 months
      • Garden Update
      • Sophia: 2 1/2 years old
      • Roosters and Small Eggs
      • The great Minnesota get-together
    • ►September
      • Visit to my parents, class reunion, birthday
      • Noah: 6 months
      • Savanna Portage
      • It's Quilting Time!
      • Outside Happenings
      • Como Zoo 2012
    • ►August
      • Garden/Orchard Update
      • Noah: 5 Months
      • A trip to the beach
      • Let's go to the fair!
      • Playset - Part 1
    • ►July
      • TWIP: Sophia and Noah
      • Noah: 4 months
      • This Week in Pictures (TWIP)
      • 4th of July
      • TWIP: Sophia and Noah
    • ►June
      • Garden/Orchard Update
      • Noah: 3 Months
      • Back to work
      • Wheel Hoe
    • ►May
      • Sophia 2 Year and our Family Photos
      • Garden, Trees, and Pests
      • Noah's Baptism
      • Noah: 2 Months
      • At Home with Mom
      • Lets go shopping!
      • New Arrivals
      • Outside
    • ►April
      • Noah: 6 Weeks
      • Easter Eggs
      • Chicken Update and Incubation
      • Noah: 4 Weeks
      • This Week in Pictures (TWIP)
    • ►March
      • Sophia: 2 year check-up
      • Noah: 2 Weeks
      • Playing with Dirt
      • Noah's visitors
      • Happy 2nd Birthday Sophia!
      • Sophia, meet your baby brother Noah
      • Meet Noah Lawrence
      • Baby #2 Update: 38 weeks
      • Sophia's 2nd Birthday Celebration
    • ►February
      • Seeds
      • Baby #2 update: 36 weeks
      • The Big Apple
      • Random Picture Update
      • Plans Change
      • Sophia's first skating adventure
      • Clearing
    • ►January
      • Baby #2 Update: 32 Weeks
      • Christmas 2011: Part 3
      • Christmas 2011
      • Christmas 2011: Part 1
      • I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
      • Baby #2 Update: 29 Weeks
  • ►2011
    • ►December
      • Minnesota Wild Weekend!
      • Merry Christmas!
      • Felling our Christmas Tree
      • Here comes Santa!
      • Thanksgiving TWIP
      • Baby #2 Update: 24 Weeks
    • ►November
      • I'm a Big Girl!
      • Apples Aplenty
      • Chicken Update
      • Baby #2 update: 20 weeks
    • ►October
      • Happy Halloween!
      • It's a...Poll!
      • Vanilla Extract
      • Sophia: 19 months
      • Harvest and Preservation
      • Home Stretch
      • Baby #2 update: 16 weeks
    • ►September
      • Touch 'em All...And They're Off
      • Biltmore Estates
      • Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Part III
      • It was Gatlinburg in mid-July
      • Surprise! Here comes #2!
      • Great Smoky Mountains National Park
    • ►August
      • TWIP : Sophia
      • Garden/Orchard Update
      • Benton County Fair
      • Stearns County Fair
      • Garden Update
    • ►July
      • TWIP (This Week in Pictures)
      • Come and Gone
      • Guess what I did?
      • TWIP: Catch Up
    • ►June
      • 15 Month Check-up: Sophia
      • A Day at the Zoo!
      • This Week in Pictures (TWIP)
    • ►May
      • This week in pictures (TWIP)/Sophia update
      • This Week in Pictures (TWIP)
      • Eddie's Big Adventure
      • Ashley's Chicago Trip
      • The chicks are here!
      • Rocks and Bubbles
      • Blackberry Jelly
    • ►April
      • Hoppity Easter!
      • Chicken Stock
      • Seed Starting / Garden Update
      • This Week in Pictures (TWIP)
      • MN Wild
      • Sea Life Minnesota Aquarium
    • ►March
      • Sophia 12 month update
      • Sophia's 12 month checkup
      • My 1st Birthday Party!
      • Happy 1st Birthday Sophia!
      • 2 days to go!
      • More Fruit! More Trees!
      • 9 days to go!
    • ►February
      • Chickens: Round 2
      • Sophia: 11 months
      • The city that never sleeps
      • Yucky eggplant!
      • Stuck!
      • TWIP Sophia
    • ►January
      • Think Spring
      • Happy 93rd Birthday!
      • Winter Chill
      • Christmas...a little late
      • Sophia: 10 Months
      • January Update
      • Happy New Year!
  • ►2010
    • ►December
      • Christmas Celebrations!
      • Sophia's first illness update
      • Sophia: 9 Months
      • Yuletide Greetings
      • Mr. and Mrs. Claus
    • ►November
      • Good Food. Good Company.
      • Clap, Clap, Clap
      • Sophia: 8 months
      • On Strike
      • First snowfall
      • Apple of My Eye
      • Look at me go!
    • ►October
      • Ooh Ooh Ah Ah!
      • Tooth Fairy
      • Happy Birthday Dad!
      • Quilt Raffle
      • Sophia: 7 Months
      • Garden Update
      • TWIP-Sophia
    • ►September
      • Birthday!
      • Sophia 6 Months
      • Garden, Orchard and Other Misc. Update
      • A camping we will go
      • Storm Damage
      • Sophia pictures
      • The Great Minnesota Get-Together
      • Garden Update
    • ►August
      • YUMMY!
      • Sophia 5 months
      • Sophia's First Parade
      • And we're back...
      • Technical Difficulties
    • ►July
      • Sophia 4 months
      • Excitement in the neighborhood
      • Sophia's First Camping Trip
      • More Sophia
    • ►June
      • Garden/Flower Update
      • Summer fun
      • A Planting We Will Go
      • Sophia: 3 months
      • So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye
      • A new discovery
      • Garden Update
      • Exploration
    • ►May
      • Freedom
      • Take Me Out To The Ballgame
      • Our little houdini!
      • Sophia has her 2 month check-up!
      • Two months old!
      • See Sophia grow...
      • Mother's Day Weekend
      • Sophia's Baptism - Part II
      • Sophia at 7 Weeks
      • Sophia's Baptism - Part I
    • ►April
      • Sophia: 6 Weeks
      • Let it grow.
      • Sophia Pictures
      • Happy Birthday Daddy!
      • Bath fun!
      • Say Cheese - 4 Weeks
      • Sophia's First Easter!
      • Rollover
      • Easter Basket
      • Garden Update
      • Hee-Haw, it's been three weeks!
      • Easter Eggs
      • Yucky Vitamins
    • ►March
      • Spring is here
      • Two Week Check-Up
      • Mommy and Daddy love you!
      • Visiting Great Grandma Schmitt
      • Meet the cousins
      • Out to Dry
      • Lots of love
      • Tummy Time
      • Sophia - 1 Week old
      • Rub A Dub Dub
      • Sophia's first blowout!
      • Meet Sophia
      • Pregnancy update: Week 38
      • Pregnancy update: Week 37
      • Baby shower #2
      • In like a lamb. Out like a lion?
    • ►February
      • Pregnancy update: Week 36
      • This Week In Picture (TWIP)
      • One step closer
      • Pregnancy update: Week 34
      • Orchard
      • Cure-All? Diatomaceous Earth
    • ►January
      • Pregnancy update: Week 32
      • Happy 92nd Birthday Grandma Schmitt!
      • 'Tis the Season
      • Baby Shower
      • This Week In Pictures (TWIP)
      • Pregnancy update: Week 28
  • ►2009
    • ►December
      • This Week In Pictures (TWIP)
      • Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree
      • Sweet Tooth
      • Early Christmas...
      • This Week in Pictures (TWIP)
      • Better late than never...
      • Implements
      • Pregnancy Up-date: Week 24
      • Sauerkraut
      • Round 2
    • ►November
      • Getting Ready
      • One of these eggs is not like the other!
      • Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater
      • Moving Day
      • No Boy Parts!
      • Pregnancy up-date: Week 20
      • Welcome Baby Chase!
      • It's a...Poll
      • Food
    • ►October
      • What a Load
      • Fall Harvest
      • Wings
      • A Record
      • Sourdough and Sauerkraut
      • Pregnancy up-date: Week 16
      • There is always a first...
      • Fall Harvest
      • Albany Pioneer Days
    • ►September
      • Travel
      • HDR Flowers
      • When life hands you tomatoes...
      • I See Red
      • Cock-A-Doodle-Doo
      • On a Stick
      • Our First Photos
      • Katelyn Update
      • Camping Trip
      • This Week in Pictures (TWIP)
    • ►August
      • Garden Update
      • Cold Spring Parade
      • Sweet Corn Season
      • Garden Update
      • Threshing
      • Food, Inc.
      • Baptism
    • ►July
      • 15 Minutes
      • Bye Bye Birdie
      • Garden Harvest
      • Cumulonimbus
      • This Week in Pictures (TWIP)
      • For The Birds
      • Take me out to the ballgame
      • This Week in Pictures (TWIP)
    • ►June
      • Heavyweight
      • Tis The Season
      • Serenity
      • Culinary
      • The Godfather: Part II
      • German Picnic
      • Growth: Chicken Update
      • Brush-B-Gone
      • Let's Party!
      • Under Attack
      • Mow, mow, mow I go
      • First Harvest
      • Happy Birthday Katelyn!
      • All Cooped Up
      • Moving Day
    • ►May
      • Graduation Day!
      • Build it and...
      • Cheep, Cheep, Cheep
      • View
      • Restraint
      • This Week In Pictures (TWIP)
      • Growth
      • Visitors
      • Do you have your umbrella?
      • Chickens!
      • Construction
      • If only for a day...
      • Pruning
      • Rhubarb and Raspberries
    • ►April
      • Ready to go
      • Testing 1-2-3
      • A Planting We Will Go
      • The Orchard Has Been Started
      • Some like it hot
      • What's that smell?
      • Fruit and more fruit
      • Black Gold
      • Week of Firsts
      • Brooder
      • Sunrise, Sunset
      • Circa 1980
      • Srapbooking, scrapbooking, and more scrapbooking
      • Birthday Fun!
      • Sweet, literally.
      • This Week In Pictures (TWIP)
    • ►March
      • 2 Down, 10 To Go
      • Photo Day
      • Acquisition
      • Our New Lake
      • Slip and Slide
      • Let there be heat!
      • What came first?
      • 706
      • American Gothic and Grace
      • Let the games begin...

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