Nana's Prized Tomatoes

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Here is a shot of Nana posing with her tomatoes. Nice work Nana!

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The Great Minnesota Get Together

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I know I am a little behind in posting updates. I have been busy. Anywho, the boys, Nana and I went to the MN State Fair on a wednesday night. It was quite an adventure. We did pretty well with curbing our eating, but who can resist donut holes and Sweet Martha's Cookies? We had a absolute blast. The kids rode some rides. I even went on the Giant Slide with Jakin. Josh went down all by himself. Nana said "you should have seen the look on Josh and Jakin's face". They loved it. It was also cool to see the Fine Arts building. I always like to look at the photographs. I had wondered about entering some photos in the fair, but hadn't done so yet. Nana asked someone about the process. What she found out is that 660 people submitted art and only 130 were accepted to be displayed a the fair. Odds like that really challenge me, so I just might try and enter something next year.

The really cool thing though is that Nana entered some tomatoes and she took 4th place. Not bad. We are all so proud. This is another reason why I want to enter the fair. Nothing like a good old competition.

Family Photo

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Here is a recent shot of our family. We don't all get into the picture very often. We were on our way over to Nana's place all dressed up for Jakin's Birthday. I recently purchased a remote switch for my camera. It has a 9' cord. These pictures were taken with my toe!

It is hard to make the kids smile when there is no one behind the camera. Maybe I need to set up a mirror for us to look at.

All for now!