fpa and family

Chicago 09

2009-09-22T10:04:00.000-07:00

Summer 09

2009-09-22T10:03:00.000-07:00

Clay is in the Bones Brigade

2009-03-24T07:54:00.000-07:00

Now a member of the bones brigade.

Here is Clay with his new board and shoes. Pre-broken bones.

HBD Joanna

2009-03-24T07:52:00.000-07:00

Joanna is 5

Winter Activites

2009-03-24T07:49:00.000-07:00

been a while since I've touched this blog. Had to re-activate everything, blow the dust off.

We had a busy winter. Joanna took ice skating lessons, everyone took xc ski lessons.

We're glad winter is done though.

I'll try and upload film footage soon, if it doesnt require a lot of re-activating and such...

Happy Birthday Clay

2008-11-25T14:38:00.001-08:00

A good time was had by all....

Jims Land

2008-09-23T14:07:00.000-07:00

Saturday the family headed to the Wisconsin country side to visit Jim’s land and celebrate his birthday. It was a warm day with plenty to do. From climbing on the tree stand to fishing for dinner at EatMyFish. All were happily exhausted.

Fin&Feather 2008

2008-08-11T07:41:00.000-07:00

Lara's Wedding

2008-07-23T11:04:00.000-07:00

More pics coming from Lara's wedding.

Here are some from the photo booth they had at the reception.

Swedish Heritage Day

2008-06-23T10:55:00.000-07:00

We were proud to be swedish for the mid-summer celebration. Despite all the tents,activities and linginberries, the day was missing a tall swede. It needed someone 6'6",blond. It needed Josh.

DaddyDaughterDate

2008-06-23T10:52:00.000-07:00

Jo and I headed to Stillwater for a fancy meal and a trolley ride on our first DaddyDaughterDate.

The trolley was fun for 15 minutes.

Next up; carriage ride.

Happy Half-Birthday Clay

2008-05-23T08:31:00.001-07:00

Soccer Star

2008-05-23T08:27:00.000-07:00

Clay started soccer and had his first game yesterday.

A Sunday Wedding

2008-05-05T10:53:00.000-07:00

This past Sunday, we celebrated Erika and Jason's wedding. Jo was a flower girl and did an amazing job. Kathy was the maid of honor and she did a great job as well.

Clay and I just enjoy the beautiful sunny day looking good in our dress clothes.

Kathy's First Race

2008-04-30T08:23:00.001-07:00

Kathy ran (jogged) the Get in Gear 10K on Saturday morning. Three cheer’s for her. Extra points for her for running nice and slow so that her half-sister’s-half-brother could finish strong.

Next time she runs it at her pace.

Happy Birthday Joanna

2008-03-19T11:12:00.000-07:00

Looks Who's 4

wow.. its been a while

2008-03-07T13:59:00.000-08:00

some xmas and winter pictures.

Happy Birthday Week Clay

2007-11-19T09:45:00.001-08:00

This week is Birthday Week for Clay. Sunday’s activities included a bowling party for him and his buddies. Totally great time was had. Lara made this killer birthday crown.

Rock Climbing

2007-11-05T11:59:00.000-08:00

Sunday the kids went rock climbing in Taylor’s Falls with the Petersons.
Here are some pic’s from that beautiful day.

What A Weekend

2007-10-15T10:09:00.001-07:00

What a great weekend for the family FPA. Saturday, we went to the Afton apple orchard for our annual “apple-fest”. The hay ride, apple picking and corn-maze made for a busy and beautiful morning.

Sunday was cloudy and wet. But the family FPA came out to cheer the cross racers on. All wearing their team sweatshirts. After the race, it was dinner with JBT, Jon and Jane. JBT cooked, Jon played a little piano concert, while I did the dishes.

A great weekend indeed.

Garden Day at the Casa del FPA

2007-10-08T10:49:00.000-07:00

Everyone was involved with the fall lawn clean up projects. Plants re-located, gardens seeded over, foliage cut way back. Lots of help from my folks. Double extra help from Clay and Joanna.

Labor Day Travels

2007-09-04T12:55:00.001-07:00

Headed to Chicago for the weekend.
Here are pics from Saturday downtown. We took the El to the new park.

Bemidji, MN

2007-07-30T06:30:00.000-07:00

Time for a little family vacation.. 6th year in a roll up at the Finn-n-Feather. Lots of good times. Here are pictures of us fishing, eating, attending the county fair and riding horses.

More pictures to come, cause its worth the effort for this blog.

Now it back to work.

blah.

Parents 40th anniversary cont..

2007-07-02T12:06:00.000-07:00

more pics

Parents 40th anniversary

2007-07-02T09:31:00.000-07:00

Big weekend for the FPA family

Josh and family came up from Chicago. The cousins played together wonderfully and a good time was had by all. Parents had their 40th at Forepaughs.

Had to dress up, no biggie, except I no longer like to do that... had to wear more casual socks... good thing they're black.

2007-06-15T09:13:00.000-07:00

The Best Bike Day Ever

I’ve had a ton of great days on a bike. I remember most of the very clearly; The day I learned to ride my first bike in Skokie, the Christmas I got my Rampar R-10, riding the PK Ripper, racing the Hutch at Itasca, racing Nate around Rockford, Bike trips up to Door County, The Aids Ride to Chicago, even recent activites like learning to ride hard with DA, Wah, Mikey P, Dyles and B2B… I’ve been blessed.

But NOTHING beats last night’s ride with Clay.

Clay just learned to ride his bike and we’ve been hitting the streets pretty hard. Actually, he prefers the alleys, so we’ve been hitting those harder.

Ain’t nothing better on a bike.

Check out him above; pulling his newest trick: no feet.

Jo's T-Ball Game #2

2007-06-08T06:53:00.000-07:00

Jo was into running the bases a couple times, hitting the ball off the tee, and making designs in the infield's gravel.

Matt and Lottie are on the same team, lottie had fun hiding in Matt's legs.

Welcome

2007-06-06T11:22:00.000-07:00

just a simple blog post here to get things going.

This is for all things fpa&family

kids, pets, that sorta stuff...