The Gingerbread House

Every year our family makes a gingerbread house. Here are some pictures of this years fun.

The empty canvas inviting for inspiration.

Ahh the importance of a sturdy foundation (or walls in this case)

Mother and Father look on, as their children show forth their artistic abilities

the finished product.

Its been 3 years...

I am amazed at how fast the time has gone. It has already been 3 years, since God increased our family by three.

Merry Christmas everyone from the Strands

bed jumping

Confession: This kinda looks like fun :)

http://www.hotelsbycity.net/blog/bed-jump/

Go Dockers

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You have to read this! :)

maggie's 5th birthday

Here are some of the pictures we took during Maggie's birthday last Saturday.

The Best (Military) Commercial

That's Not My Job...

"This is a story about four people named, Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.
There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about this, because it was Everybody's job.
Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody, blamed Somebody, when Nobody, did what Anybody could have done." ~Anonymous

Reformation Day Fair

Last weekend I went to a Reformation day fair in Morton IL. I had a really great time and look forward to next year.

The Yen family who so kindly adopted me for the weekend. Thank You guys so much.

On our way to dinner. We thought they added a finishing touch to our outfits.

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The very impressive wall outside of the church. I'm sure it took lots of work to create.

I had a great time being with and catchin' up with friends.

Miss Tara Y.

Charlie Zahm

after our breakfast in the hotel well felt wee needed to work off a few pounds. :)

Happy 21 Annerversary

ok here are a bunch random photos over the last month

Do to slow Internet once again I have put off uploading or posting anything on my blog. But I promise to find some time and the patience soon, and post a bunch of pictures lol

a bunch of pictures...

since our Internet connection was slowed down for ssssooooo long I wasn't able to update my blog. But now that we are back to almost normal running speed. Here are some highlights of whats been going on in July and the beginning of August.



Ele's Birthday

At the beach

Old World Wisconsin with the Yens :)

Jonathan Erber's Good bye/ bowling party

Father Daughter day at the Hills

-thanks Hills for hosting that

over the last few weeks we have spent a lot of time going back and forth the the Dodges (my aunt's house)

Going to see a movie in 3-d with my cousins and jo jo's boyfriend