Is it really November?

It's been months since we have posted on here and we have so many pictures that we don't know where to start....but we'll give you just a brief update of recent happenings!

The picture below is Ben's living room in the home he is buying in South Minneapolis

It has recently been renovated and should make him a nice first home!

We had a good crew helping him get moved in on Halloween weekend.  Here are Randy and Laurie (Jen's mom and dad) and Steve installing blinds under the supervision of Ben!!

Ben and Jen making some breakfast on Saturday morning in his nice kitchen.

Saturday evening we had lots of visitors, including 6 week old Ava. She is Ben's cousin Chad's little girl.  Glad they could come over for a little while so we could meet their little dolly!

Here we are at Ben's place that he rented for four years....having a delicious meal in the screened porch.  He and Jen cooked for us as we were coming through the cities after a late September weekend in Wisconsin to visit Steve's brother Delmar.

Here we are with Delmar and Mike, Amanda, Dane and Nora. 

We had a five day trip to Paris the first week of September.  We went with our good friends Bruce and Rhonda and had a wonderful time!!  We could bore you for hours with pictures from that trip!

There's nothing like our wonderful summer walks along the shore of Storm Lake in Milnor with our good ol' friend Ralph.....he's been with us since he adopted us 12 years ago.

Gorgeous sunset over Storm Lake!

We were to Minnesota in August to celebrate Steve's brother Alan and his wife Pam's  anniversary.  She has been his beautiful bride for 40 years!!

Here they are with their four children and nine grandchildren. 

Our children and grandchildren were there too!

Couldn't resist posting this picture of the girls with all of their cute aprons that Sabrina and Jenny sewed!

After Amanda saw those cute aprons, she had Sabrina sew these matching aprons for her and Nora!  Now they can cook up a storm!