Making up for lost time

February 14th, 2010 flummery Posted in Fun Times | 4 Comments »

Well – seems we haven’t updated in years, so this might be a long one! Lots has happened in our family since we last posted…new house…new baby…new shoes!

In November we packed up our home and moved to storage…or rather, most of our stuff moved to storage and we moved to Foofaraw’s Mom’s house. It was a thrilling time – a tiring time – a two time! While we were in FF, Kasen had his second birthday. It was a quiet celebration, but a fun one. And we had ice cream pie with Oreos! Every card he got received an “Oh WOW!” and he was super excited about all his gifts. On that same day, we learned we had an approval for our offer on the house and we also learned that we were indeed expecting…a baby! (But we kept that last one quiet for a bit.) We also got to celebrate Christmas with Foofaraw’s family while we were there. It was fun to have all the cousins on Foof’s side of the family together and playing! (and getting along!) We also got to celebrate Christmas with Flum’s family in IA – but somehow we didn’t get any pictures. :(

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silly mongoose
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I see you!
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getting ready to move
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2nd birthday
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birthday pie!
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oh wow!
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story time **
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cousins (clockwise from left back: Jacob, Kaylee, Taylor, Winter, Kasen, Becca)
 

**Funny story about reading time: After Nicole read “Mr Brown Can Moo” to Winter, Kasen wanted to join in the reading fun. He wanted to hear “Mr Brown” – Winter didn’t want to hear it again. So Nicole told Winter and Kasen to go downstairs to find a different book. Winter came up with the book in the picture – Kasen came up with another copy of “Mr Brown”!

And now for what you’ve all been waiting for – pictures of the hoose! We have a cute house in South Minneapolis in a nice little neighborhood with friendly neighbors. We’ve been busy with snow removal and working on some remodels and painting. We haven’t gotten all rooms painted, but that will come in time. We also haven’t gotten the kitchen remodel done, but we’re surviving with our 1.5 sq ft of counter top…which is usually covered in dirty dishes. (No dishwasher yet!) Kasen adjusted very quickly to our new home. He LOVES his room and will drag you upstairs to show it to you when you visit. We had some nights at the beginning when he would come downstairs around Midnight, which was new for him. We think it had to do with the sudden appearance of a nightlight. When he broke that, the nighttime wanderings lessened. However, he came down a few times an hour or so after bedtime to run around and giggle. That hasn’t happened so much lately, but we do sometimes find him at the foot of the stairs with the door still closed – sometimes he’s awake and sometimes he’s sleeping.

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front of the house (I like to state the obvious!)
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living room prior to moving in
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dining room prior to moving in – with a sweet built-in!
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dining room and living room after moving in – walls not yet repainted
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kitchen before – isn’t that a nice blue?
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kitchen after – yes, Foof got to pick the color. (It really is like a warm hug when you enter it now.)
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back entry before
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back entry after
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stairs to basement before
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stairs to basement after
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north side of basement before – with a running toilet! (no after picture – but you can imagine a washer, dryer and deep freeze in that space behind the big ol’ pipe)
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south side of basement before (no after picture – but you can imagine that pipe gone and a stack of boxes and stuff for storage/garage…picture a couple bikes along the wall and some camping chairs….a couple soccer balls)
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kids’ room before – popcorn walls and lavender
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kids’ room after – smoother walls and no lavender (lavender works in moderation…not in an entire room)
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office – still pretty cluttered
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bedroom – just a bit cluttered
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Kasen shoveling while Flum visits with a neighbor
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Kasen likes to line things up
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doin’ a little reading on the comfiest chair in the house
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mischievous look
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sleeping at the bottom of the stairs
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Shenanigans

November 5th, 2009 flummery Posted in Fun Times, Kasen | 3 Comments »

Once again it has been several months since we last posted on our blog, we really should find someone who wants to do it for us so we can keep on top of it better. To be fair, the camera was waaay over in the other room so it was quite a lot of work to get the photos on the computer.
 
SO yeah, we have some good photos for you again, going clear back to September with the Dick Beardsley 5k that Foofaraw and I ran in. Carrie came in at position 200 and I was 203 or something like that, despite the fact that we had the exact same time. It was fun to run, fun to say I ran a long run, fun to say I never want to do it again. But we’ll see…
 
We went to the Zoo one weekend with some of the other Iverson’s while we were in Minneapolis, that was good times, even got to hang out in IKEA for a while.
 
Flummery, Foofaraw and KT all went to Duluth/North Shore one weekend, got to walk around a lot, see some cool things, eat at Betty’s Pies.
 
I’m sure there was much more to say from the last few months, but it’s 1:30am right now and I’m tired so I’ll let the photos do the talking and maybe Foofaraw will fill in the gaps later.
 

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Just before our 5k in Detroit Lakes.

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Clearly not fully awake yet for the big race.

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At the Zoo this summer, Kasen was giving the bear plenty of hugs and kisses.

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I can almost touch him!
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Yeah, I’m done with this now.
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Wonder which parent he gets this from.
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Spending time on the North Shore.
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I think this one speaks for itself.
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Gosh Darn Cute, Foofaraw too.
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Split Rock Light House
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I had no idea you owned a restaurant too
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Gas Station Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (he’s famous)
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Touché
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Fun with the Leaves
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Apparently the Wooden bench is to hard or something.
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Kasen one day lined up his two plastic animals on our two tables.
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And specifically on the table dividers, goof ball.
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Rarrrr!
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If you can’t beat them, Join them. This is becoming standard head ware as of late.
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Pop tarts are pretty good, maybe I’ll steal another one from daddy.
Notice the huge bruise on his forehead – decided to fall/walk into the door frame.
Don’t worry, he smashed his lip/mouth on the corner of the table as he jumped off the bench the next day to help forget about the head bump.
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Flummery was napping while Kasen was napping, Kasen woke up before Flummery did. This is what we found.
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Double Take

October 5th, 2009 flummery Posted in Kasen | 3 Comments »

Aunt Karen Last week or maybe two weeks ago now, sent an old photo of Edgar Gilbertson (who Kasen’s middle name is after), Karen thought Kasen looked a lot like his Great Grandpa and indeed she is right. I have combined Edgar’s photo next to a photo of Kasen so you can see it closely. I also attached the original photo of Edgar. I think we need to cut Kasen’s hair that way next time! Hope you enjoy.

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Here Kitty Kitty Kitty

September 8th, 2009 flummery Posted in Fun Times, Kasen | 5 Comments »

So I haven’t really posted a lot of fun blog posts this summer, so I figured it was probably time for me to get one update in at least. I’ll give Foofaraw a break this time, but it also gives me the ability to post what I want :)

We have been quite busy all summer, hard to believe it’s almost over already, the Ringers started school today which I imagine Greta is quite excited about. It seems like we have been busy every weekend since summer started.

Next weekend we are going to Detroit Lakes for the 5k Marathon, if you want to see Foofaraw and I run, then you better get up there for the big event, should be a fun time, despite the running part.

Anyway, here are some fun photos and a couple videos for you to enjoy.

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Kasen has started to fall asleep in more places, here is him on the couch.

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No we aren’t talking to each other, as far as I can remember.

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What you looking at?

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Aunt Karen was here for a day, Kasen managed to get honey all over her at dinner.

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Just thought this was a nice picture of Kaylee.

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It’s like this everyday! Ok, not really but wouldn’t be surprising if it was.

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Clearly not related at all.

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Tube slide!

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Fun at a cabin visiting Aunt Vickie and cousin Kai (Kai is 2 days younger than Kasen)

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Hugs!

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Sheep at the MN State Fair, Kasen liked the animals, except for the one he punched in the face, but it was just a baby so it’s ok, or not.

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Baaaa. and you thought Kasen was blonde.

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Kasen loved getting Gelato.

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Gotcha nose

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Carnival ride, he enjoyed the rides pretty well.

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Mom and Kasen liked this one.

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View of some of the people at the State Fair and the Gondola.

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Kasen got to carrie a pail around collecting “farm” things like corn and stuff, was a good time.

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Riding a tractor was one of the activities in the Kids Farm Area Thingy.

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Katie and Foofaraw being themselves.

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Kasen seeems to like John Deere quite a bit, need to get him on a farm.

Foofaraw isn’t as much of a video lover as I am, I had intended on posting like 6 videos but apparently Flickr only lets you upload 2 per month if you have the basic account. So here is what I picked.

So Kasen Loves cats, here is a fun one of him “playing"
with one.

You may have a fond image of Foofaraw in your head, but
this is how I know her. :)

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DENIED!

September 5th, 2009 foofaraw Posted in Fun Times | No Comments »

So one of Kasen’s favorite things to do when jumping on the bed is knee slams, as Foof refers to them. This is basically jumping up and landing on his knees – and he’ll fly right at you (probably intentionally) if you’re lying on the bed supervising. So tonight he was playing even steven with slamming Dad then slamming Mom and then back to Dad and so on – and mostly we’d keep him from landing on us. However, at one point he successfully landed on Foof’s face. At this time, he was also chewing on his Pongo. He’s such a multi-tasker. But I digress….

So after Foof gets Kasen back on the bed next to her, she tells him he hurt her face and asks for a kiss. Kasen looks at her, takes Pongo out of his mouth, blows a lips only raspberry at her, and puts Pongo back in his mouth. (I specify lips only because I think that’s a bit better than sticking his tongue out.)

No kiss.

(However – later on he did kiss her leg as he was getting off the bed. So that was nice.)

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