Tim and Carrie's Blog

Today was Thanksgiving Day, and we travelled to Fort Atkinson to see my relatives.  There were a few disappointments, as we couldn’t bring the 4 younger kids with us because they were exposed to a contagious strain of pneumonia earlier in the week.  I didn’t want to spread it to my relatives, so we didn’t bring them with today.

We did, however, pick up Elizabeth from college in Madison on our way to Fort Atkinson.  We got to spend the day with Grandma Heinz, My mom and dad, Uncle Lee and Aunt Lynne, Aunt Karol, Steven, Chris and kids, Kurt, Heidi and kids, and of course, Elizabeth.  We did have a very nice visit at Lee and Lynne’s house.

Grandma Heinz Thanksgiving 2010

Earlier this past summer, we received a manuscript that my Grandma Heinz had written and my mom had typed up and emailed to us.  At the time, we thought it would be great to take the manuscript and make it in to book form.  On our trip to see Grandma Heinz on October 26th, we had scanned in many of Grandma’s family pictures from when she was younger to add to the book.  Then Carrie got to work putting the layout of the book together and sent it to a printer she found online.  We received it a week ago and we were able to give it to Grandma today.   She started to cry a little and was just in awe of the book that she wrote.  It was a very precious moment to be a part of.

We came back home, dropping Elizabeth off in Tomah.  We got back in to town and drove to Best Buy to take our annual “Gawking At The Idiots Waiting For The Store To Open At 5am Tomorrow” tour of their parking lot (we got into town around 6:30pm), and then spent the evening tonight reading all of the holiday ads from today’s paper.  We then realized that we won’t be going out shopping tomorrow, so we threw all the ads away and enjoyed the rest of our evening.  We made a couple of Apple Pies for me to bring to work tomorrow (I peeled the apples, Carrie did the rest!)

And that is how we spent our Thanksgiving, 2010.  More another time.

~Tim

Hi again, everyone!

Well, we are back in to the swing of things. Like I said in the previous posts, we got back from Niagara Falls on Monday evening. We spent the rest of the week just getting back into the swing of things at work. Tonight I uploaded several pictures to the other posts from our trip. Today was church, and then we took an afternoon nap. In the evening, we went to Airport Beach in French Island and watched the Bethany Waterski Team perform. This is made up of members of our church’s youth group. Then we came home and watched some TV.

That’s all for now. More next week.

Tim

Hi again, everyone!

Danielle playing flute at her band concert.

This past week was busy with work and Carrie’s school. **Two Weeks To Go!** Thursday we went to Elizabeth’s and Danielle’s band concert. Elizabeth had written a piece of band music that was premiered at this concert. It is called “The Dancer“. It was played very well. Elizabeth also conducted the band for that piece. I was impressed with it and, of course, very proud of her. Danielle also did a very good job on the flute as well, and I am certainly proud of her, too.

Elizabeth directing her composition, "The Dancer"

Today our church was introduced to our new Interm Worship Pastor, Eric Walker. He didn’t lead the service today, as he had just arrived and hadn’t had any time to really prepare. He does start this coming week, however.

After work today, I played my sax at our church’s quarterly “Singspiration” service. We played and sang a bunch of hymns from the church hymnal. The leader, Ray, at times wanted me to play a solo verse between the congregation singing a verse. 2 were planned at rehearsal, and 2 were surprises! Everything went well, though. We all enjoyed our time.

Elizabeth discussing her composition, "The Dancer" at the band concert.

For this coming week, I work 6 days (including today). In a way, I am glad, as Carrie told me she has a LOT of homework this week for the second-to-last week of the quarter. Wednesday is my only day off, and Carrie and I will be attending a class at church to look into becoming members. Saturday, my parents are coming to this side of the state, and we will probably have dinner with them that night, as I get off work at 3:00 that day. Then the following day we will all be attending my kids’ piano recital on Sunday afternoon.

That’s all for now,

Tim