Turkey Trot 2018

They brought home the pie!

 

The boys did the Turkey Trot again.

 Hunter got 9th, Blake got 6th in the 15-19 age category.

 Dave got 2nd and won the pie this year in the 50-59 category.

Go Team Underwood!!!

 

 

Let's Decorate!

Landon stayed overnight for a super-playdate with us before

he goes off to Florida with his parents for a week.

We started decorating for a French Christmas theme

that will happen this year.

 

Landon, age 8, wearing his Ireland shirt for
the school photo.

Landon lettered the cards...he has been to Paris so he knows a little about France.

 

First-Time Voters

She voted.

 And so did he.

This is Paulina, Hunter's girlfriend.

After finishing her clinicals this morning, she turned up at

St. Mark's Lutheran Church, her designated polling station.

Incidentally, St. Mark's is where Dave and Amy married.

Election day registration is OK in Iowa.

 

After attending school and returning from a Cedar Rapids game,

Hunter went to the fire station to vote.

The best thing about Iowa is that they have lots of polling stations.

No one stands in line for long.

Get out and Vote!

Beauty and Bread for the Soul

A little beauty to counter the ugliness that surrounds us.

Back in Time

Adam, Kim, and Landon visited the Minnesota Renaissance Faire
 the last weekend it was open this season.

Kim was on crutches but she made it around the rural terrain, quarry and all.

Said she loved the place.

Adam sent me this photograph of my old booth at the festival,

updated by the Glass Works people who bought it from me.

There's Kim on crutches, far right of the crowd.

 

 

 

 

Homecoming 2018

 

A few photos dropped in from the cloud. I don't have any stories that go with them...maybe a detail or two snatched from Blake's birthday party a few days earlier. Here's what I know...

 

Blake, front and center in a wrestling shirt, chose to participate in the homecoming parade. He and his football friends sat on bales of hay on a rack to toss candy to the crowd.

Hunter and Annie joined the gang of 28 dressed-up kids to attend a party.
They stopped at Frisbee Park to have their pictures taken.

Hunter, far right, and his close Varsity football buddies. They won their homecoming game.

Some of the gang of 28 party attendees...more girls than boys. Hunter and Annie fourth from the left.