Wedding

I talked to Corrina and I'm allowed to put pictures I took of the wedding on my blog now. : ) I sent her a disk of the pictures I took for her and Joe to look at.

The day of the rehearsal Jamie had to run down to the cabin that Cheryl and Corrina were staying at. And he smuggles Corrina's dress out for me. I have seen pictures of wedding dresses hung in the door way to the church before and I loved them. So I thought I would try it with Corrina's dress on this arch we found down by the river. What do you think???


Here are some pictures of the rehearsal.

Joe and Corrina trying to figure out where they want people to stand.

I have these next two pictures in the wrong order.Big family hug at the end.

Cheryl walking Corrina down.


Here is the yummy pig that they roasted all night. They had to have a guy by the thing all night to make sure the propane stayed lit and the bears didn't eat it. And yes he had a shot gun in case the bear came down.

After rehearsal Kathy, Myranda, Mandy, and I went back to Corrina and Cheryl's cabin and got the flowers together. Corrina bought a bunch of flowers from Costco on her way up to the cabin. So we tore them apart and put them back together they way we wanted them. Once they were together I wrapped them in ribbon.

Now sorry but I don't have any pictures of the wedding itself since I was in it. But here is what I took after the wedding was done.

Mr. & Mrs. Joe Fuller

Corrina sent away for a charm for her flowers. It was a picture of Jim on a ribbon. That way she had him with her on her day.

The next day Joe and Corrina came back to the resort with the dogs.

I'm guessing Cookie (the one standing on the table) does not like the dogs to much. I found her up there yelling and Cheryl and Rosemary laughing.

The perfect Christmas card.

Wedding and Vacation

As some of you know we headed to Colorado on August 5th. We left around 4:00 in the afternoon and made it to Omaha, NE around 1:00 in the morning. We had to drive around to couple hotels before we found an opening. We did this because we didn't plan anything. Not to sure why we did that, but the only place we had reserved to stay was during the wedding and that's because Joe and Corrina had them set aside for family.



The next morning we headed out bright and early to get to CO. We headed into Wyoming and then down to Fort Collins. Once again we had to drive around and find somewhere to stay. But at least it wasn't 1 in the morning this time. We got into the hotel, ate some supper, swam in the pool and went to bed.



Friday we headed up to the canyon for the rehearsal and met up with the family. We stopped once on our way up to let the boys play in the water and give them a break.

We also stopped and watched some kayaks go down the river.

Now I can't post any pictures of the rehearsal or the wedding yet. Corrina wants to see them first before I post them for everyone else. And I really can't blame her.

It was a perfect day and a beautiful wedding.

After the wedding they had a tent set up for everyone to eat and talk. There was also a swing set there and of course Seth was all about it. He finally figured out how to do the swings on his own so he was very proud of himself and asked for his picture to be taken.

This is a picture of the resort that some of stayed in. The wedding was across the road. It was nice to be able to go back and forth to get to the reception and our cabin.

Behind our cabin was a river and the boys loved it back there. So I course followed them back there and took some pictures. I wish Jakob would have stayed in his clothes from the wedding. But his dad told him it was ok to get changed since the wedding was done. At least he stayed in them long enough for family pictures and he isn't just in boxers.

During the reception Jamie, Cory, Cody, Kam, Kyle and Myranda decided they wanted to climb the hill that was next to us. Here is a picture of the hill. Remember this is the foothills of the Rockies.

Here they are on there way up.

Almost there.

They made it.

Once they got back down they had to get all the thorns out of there socks and shoes. Poor Kyle had them in his fingers.

More to come.........

Relay for Life

We went to the Relay for Life this past Friday in Mankato. Every year we decorate bags in memory of Jim. Then we walk around the park and try to find our bags.

This is Jamie's bag. He sketched his golf bag. Sorry for the bad pictures. I did some with no flash to show the candle burning inside and some with flash.

He added a name card and towel to the one side. It says Jim Shaw on the card.

This is Jakob, Corrina, and Seth's bags. They happen to be all together. You can't see very well what the two boys did on there bags. But Jakob's bag is fishing and hunting, they are the two things he wishes he could do with Jim. Seth's was a variety of animals that he thought Jim would like.

This is the back side of the bags.

Then Saturday we just hang out at Cheryl's house. We each did a little shopping at the stores in town since all we have is Wal-Mart.

Jake wasn't feeling to good. He started out with a headache and now has a sore throat and cough. I took him in Monday and they have him on medicine, but I'm not sure if it's helping him yet. Poor guy.

And Seth watching the SpongeBob marathon with his stuffed dog.

He also got out his Thomas train set and played with that during commercials.

The Anderson's and a Surprise

My brother AJ, his wife Shelly and daughter Sidney came up this weekend. They got in late Friday night. When they pulled up Josh and I were in the driveway waiting for them. Josh asked if there was someone in the back of the van and I just said it must be Sidney. They parked the van and the back door opened and out came my mom. They surprised me for my birthday by bringing my mom along. I was so happy to see her. She has not been able to make it up to our house yet and it's nice she was able to get a little vacation too.



Me and my mom

Saturday morning Sidney headed down to the lake to watch Taylor swim. We were also watching Josh's dog for the weekend.

Saturday afternoon we headed up to the Apostle Islands. We took a ferry in Bayfield over to Madeline Island.

Waiting for the ferry to come back.

Ferry coming in.

Loading onto the ferry.

Heading out to the island.

Jamie said we could move to Bayfield, but only if we lived in that house in the middle. It was huge and beautiful.

Here comes the island.

Here is Tom's Burned Down Cafe. It sounds like there use to be a cafe and then it burnt down. Now they just have a tarp and some tin roofing. It looked like fun, but the kids wanted to explore the island some more.

Jakob, Seth and Sidney

Some guys car.

We drove around the island a little bit then decided to hang out at a park near the shore.

Shelly and AJ

Jamie was trying to get Seth to go into the water.

Testing out the water.

And it was cold.

Sunday we all just lounged around the house for awhile. The kids decided the van needed to be washed. And what better way to do this then with water guns.

And we also did a little swimming.

Mom was able to lay out and relax a bit.

While the kids were swimming Shelly and I starting making homemade bagels. We got the dough mixed together, let it rise, then we shaped the bagels, popped them in the frig for overnight and headed into town. We hit the candy store first, then did a little shopping in some of the other stores. Once we got home it was time for supper. We had fried chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy, corn, buttermilk biscuits and chocolate cake for dessert. That is one of the best birthday meal ever. After supper Jamie took me and my mom and boat ride around the flowage.

Loons

An otter. You can't see him very good. The sun was starting to go down so there is bad lighting.

He didn't like us following him around.

Eagle

Sunset on the flowage.