The Sandersons take on Lake Wobegon

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Labor Day paddling around the Boundary Waters with our good friends.  Thanks to Greg and Owen for introducing us to this amazing place.

Summer 2011 started with a great visit from Damian, Tara, Cole and Kara.  We showed off our new hometown including the Guthrie Theatre and the Mississippi River.

Summer 2011 in California.  A glorious month spending time with good friends and soaking up the sun at the beach. 



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Lizzy, her friend Mia and the first and second graders performing A Whole New World at the Spring concert.  Lizzy and Mia were supposed to have two brief, one line solos mixed into the song, but the mic wasn’t working, the cord was too short and the words were lost.  Instead it looks like Lizzy is just being a big bully…but all was good by the end of the song.

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Mia and Lizzy and their class playing a few songs on their recorders at the Spring concert.

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Mia celebrated her First Communion at St. John’s with friends and family.  Mark’s Mom and Dad made the trip to Hopkins from Prescott and Mia looked lovely in her beautiful dress, gloves and lei.

Spring arrived late this year…really late! We had snow flurries the first week of May, followed five days later by 88 degree weather, golfball-size hail and a tornado warning. Never saw weather like this back in California. The local news weather people actually have something to report in Minnesota.



The local Catholic newspaper's article on our school's production of The Sound of Music starring Christian as Rolf!


Even when temperatures are well below freezing for months, a stretch of the Mississippi River near Wabasha, Minnesota remains free of ice.  Each year the largest concentration of Bald Eagles outside of Alaska gathers here to feed. The Sandersons drove the two hours from Hopkins in the hopes of witnessing this spectacle, but snow and fog made viewing less than ideal.  Instead, we visited the National Eagle Center and learned about eagles in the comfort of a heated building.  The Eagle Center offers fantastic programs and exhibits and is home to a number of birds that were injured, rehabilitated and now live at the center.

Even when temperatures are well below freezing for months, a stretch of the Mississippi River near Wabasha, Minnesota remains free of ice.  Each year the largest concentration of Bald Eagles outside of Alaska gathers here to feed. The Sandersons drove the two hours from Hopkins in the hopes of witnessing this spectacle, but snow and fog made viewing less than ideal.  Instead, we visited the National Eagle Center and learned about eagles in the comfort of a heated building.  The Eagle Center offers fantastic programs and exhibits and is home to a number of birds that were injured, rehabilitated and now live at the center.



The Von Sandersons rock the St. John's Talent Show