It is an exciting time in our house when the start of football is right around the corner! All Ready to Go, Mom. So pumped for this cookie. The future AP running back. He thought this was pretty cool. Snuggles with Ryan for fireworks. Great way to end the day! Posted by Bassett Swanson.

Tuesday, February 2, 2016. It suddenly hit me tonight how much I miss writing, especially about my sweet angels and our crazy, beautiful life. I logged back into my long forgotten blog and discovered this - a post I wrote a while back and never even published. Well, it may be old but, here it is in its original glory.

Monday, April 11, 2011.

Jason, Heidi, Ava, Annabelle and Odin. Sunday, July 11, 2010. The girls are so lucky to have such wonderful grandparents. Grandma Lu and Grandpa Gary drove out for a visit the end of June. Filling up the pool is hard work. On a hike with Grandma Lu.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010. Minnesota, what a place to live! Where did she say she was moving from? She continued to ask me about local activities and if there was anything to do up here. If you know me well, you know I passionately talk about a lot of things but when it comes to knowing this great state that I grew up in, I get a little juiced up when I get to share my knowledge.

1 Eric has been saving for a new grill for a few years. He picked his new one up on Friday evening and of course took it out immediately and started putting it together. which left a huge box for the kiddos to play with. grrr! And she loved it, too. She just kept rubbing his picture on each page. We all miss him so much.

his vocabulary and figures of speech keep us in stitches. Our 3 year old spunky girl. a good mix of sassy spitfire and loving little lady. Our one year old little monkey. growing way too fast and trying like heck to be like his big brother and sister. The mom and dad of this little brood who are loving our busy little life. watching our kids grow and trying to find humor and happiness in everything. Thursday, June 17, 2010. See you on the flip side! .

This blog is about our family and more importantly our our active almost 5 year old Donovan and his little princess sister Ryann! Monday, December 17, 2012. And now he is 4! Wednesday, October 10, 2012.

Thursday, June 18, 2015. This post is a little late. Your 63rd birthday would of been this past Sunday. My very talented coworker put together this slide show below. We are gearing up to head up north next weekend. As much as I miss you like crazy, I feel sort of like a new person lately. You taught me so much in life, and you keep teaching lessons even though you are not here with me. Things that I used to worry about.

Saturday, May 2, 2015. This is our life and I would not want to share it with anyone else. Tuesday, June 3, 2014. Saturday, May 31, 2014.