The aftermath of too much catnip!

Family Christmas Photo

Just sending a photo from Christmas together. Sure was a nice afternoon all together. Glad Joel was home to make the holiday also!!

Happy New Year to everyone. We hope that 2008 is a Happy and Healthy Year for everyone!!

Love, Eugene and Michele

Hello Family, hope all of you had a Merry Christmas. The family gathering was real nice. I really enjoyed our time together. Comet enjoyed meeting one of his cousin dogs. I'm glad they get along. Unfortunately with the large crowd that we have conversing with everyone doesn't happen; which is the only down side to the gathering. I was surprised that more things were not left behind. I can't wait for the next family gathering; which will have a new baby invited as well! Thinking of my family and hope everyone of you has a Happy, Healthy, Safe New Year. Anne

Lombardi posing for a Winter Picture!

Just sending this photo of Lombardi in her reindeer ears!! She loves the snow but in her older age now (she will be 10 in January) she pays for her snowplay and gets a little sore after the fact. We still have to let her play a little though.

Michele

Our Nokomis Winter Wonderland!!

Hi Everyone!

Just sending a couple of pictures from our cottage Sunday morning December 2nd after all the snow that we got ..... Sure was beautiful!! This is the road by our cottage named White Road, how interesting!! See you all soon!!

Michele and Eugene

Hello everyone, Eric and I finally connected, so now I back on the blog. Anne

In what surely is a sign that the "stars" are aligned, Ellen had a magical occurrence with the gravy the other night. Here is a photo. This occurred on it's own without stirring. Glad you all had a great Thanksgiving. We missed you. See you at Christmas.

Steve

Steve

It's a BOY!

We sure enjoyed seeing everyone on the big turkey day. For those who couldn't come, we found out it is a boy!!!!!!! So the Rasmussen name will live on!!!
Thanksgiving was great! Thanks to Greg and Judy and the girls for hosting!

Here is the cranberry chutney recipe everyone seemed to like:

INGREDIENTS
1 (12 ounce) bag fresh or frozen cranberries
1 1/4 cups sugar
3/4 cup water
1 large cooking apple, chopped
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves


DIRECTIONS
In a saucepan, combine all ingredients; bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Reduce heat; simmer for 15-20 minutes or until apple is tender and mixture thickens. Cool completely.
Store in the refrigerator.

Serve over cream cheese with crackers or as a condiment with pork, ham or chicken.

Makes 12 servings

Are We Having Fun Yet?????

Comments by Mom

After losing my cool sev. times I am finally able to get back to the blog!
I just love the picture of Jerry & Foster--really neat!
Also liked the flower, etc. pictures from Judy!
I plan to enlist Tech. Ryan to see if I can add some picts from my camera!
Love to all, Mom

Hi Everyone!

It appears my attempt at attaching a photo was unsuccessful! Let's try this again!

Road Trip to Pier Lake

Greetings All,
We've been neglectful in posting so we'll try to include all recent updates in the northwoods.
Included is a very recent photo of the newest member of our clan! His name is Foster and he's wonderful! Sadie is quite fond of him (which we discovered yesterday on a quick road trip over to Pier Lake...Sadie was very protective of her little one around Ole!) and Mocha and Jet are warming up to him too!
He's an Australian Shepherd mix and is 3 1/2 months old.
We took a little road trip to see Clare and Scott yesterday after the Packer win and had a great time. I wish I would have gotten a photo of the 3 kids playing in the yard...it was a gas! Thanks for the good time, Clare and Scott. We really need to to that more often!
The trees are starting to turn up here and fall is really in the air.
Hope everyone is doing well and hope to see you very soon!
Love,
Ann and Jerry

Pictures from Waupaca

Dog

Another note, Ann and Jerry, Kathy thinks "Foster" would be a "cute" name, due to the fact that no name was mentioned in the E-mail.

The Specht's are on

After email changes and technology incapablities, we are now able to work with the blog. Due to the aforementioned technoloty incapabilities I, (Ryan) will be doing the majority of the writing, so should the posts come up in first person point of view, the "I" would be Ryan, unless otherwise stated. No other news to report.

gisMom is on finally!!!

Good thing I don't have a picture of me to post right now!!! It has taken me (quite)awhile to get this organized----with getting the name and password to match!!!!!!!!! but I perserved and finally got it!
Beautiful pie Judy. The pictures from Pier Lake are grand too!!

Judy's Perfect Pie

Judy made the most perfect strawberry rhubarb pie ever, it was so good looking we didn't want to cut it so Judy turned her back and Greg ate it all in one sitting!

Thanks to Kathy for the pie plate and pie bird; it said "Perfect pie everytime!"

I am now going to try to post some pictures from our cottage on Pier Lake.

Brady and Brian hitting the water!

The Pier Lake Princesses

The Pier Lake Hounds. Yes, Ole is still alive, Banjo was only looking for a snack.

July 3 at the Lake

Brady looking for hot 8 year old girls.

Hi All

Andersons here. I managed to get us signed in again. We will try to post early and often. Go Vikings!

Steve

Baby update

Baby Monty is doing well andI thought you all might enjoy a bambino update every once in a while...so here is update 1.

We are 2 months developed (yesterday) and the urge to purge can go away anytime now. It is really not so cool. But otherwise we are doing fine. Just a little tired.

I moved into new office space and it is really cool to be able to go home at night and not have to worry about work. Just family-time which I have never had before, so everyone is happy.

I nap a lot and sleep more but that is what Monty wants. Check out the Babystrology...pretty cool!

We will keep you posted as things progress.

Hope all is well!