Sunday, December 20, 2009
Jake's Fire Truck
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Jake and the Beachball
Labels: Family
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Photo of the Week 5/10/09
Sunday, March 08, 2009
Photo of the Week 2/8/09
Sunday, March 01, 2009
The Peterson Family Broomball Game 2009
Photo of the Week 3/1/09
The Peterson Family broomball game ended in a 4-4 tie this year. Pictured below are the participants after the battle. Mark your calendars for 2/20/10 for next years game.
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| From Photo of the Week 2009 |
Labels: Family, Photo_of_the_week
Monday, January 19, 2009
Marti's Wedding Pictures
I only had my camera with me for a few moments before the wedding, but here's what I've got...
Photo of the Week 1/18/09
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Jake's 2nd Bath
Labels: Family
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Jake Alexander
It's been a whirl wind few days. Here are some of the highlights - A birth, a bath, a shower, a trip home in a blizzard....
Saturday, December 06, 2008
Christmas Tree
Last week we cut down our own Christmas tree from our friend's tree farm - http://www.pinesteadtreefarms.com/
It was pretty cool, not as expensive as I thought and I high recommend it. Now it wasn't a snow shoe hike like last year...
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| From Grand Marais Dec 2007 |
Friday, December 05, 2008
A Celebration at Work
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Adrian's Birthday
Saturday, November 08, 2008
Ultra Sound Pics
Here's some good photos that have now been properly distributed, so they are clear to be posted - even though they are kind of old.
Labels: Family
Gotta do a better job....
I haven't updated this site in a while, and today, I came across a site that makes me say wow - I gotta do a better job keeping up with this.
The site is: Raging Dad - very impressive, I burnt the chicken tonight because I got wrapped up reading it, but I did turn off the grill and I didn't need to know about #2 in the random things post.
Some other good sites that inspire me are mattberan.com, DustyLens, GeekDad and Grandparents on the Go!
The site is: Raging Dad - very impressive, I burnt the chicken tonight because I got wrapped up reading it, but I did turn off the grill and I didn't need to know about #2 in the random things post.
Some other good sites that inspire me are mattberan.com, DustyLens, GeekDad and Grandparents on the Go!
Labels: Family
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Grand Marais October 08
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
BWCA Trip 2008
Erika and I went into the BWCA for Labor Day. Here are the photos.
We went in from Poplar Lake to Liz to Caribou to Horseshoe to Gaskin and we stayed on Winchell Lake - 5 portages and almost 13 miles. Check out some of the photos to see why it's very impressive for Erika to be doing this kind of thing....
We went in from Poplar Lake to Liz to Caribou to Horseshoe to Gaskin and we stayed on Winchell Lake - 5 portages and almost 13 miles. Check out some of the photos to see why it's very impressive for Erika to be doing this kind of thing....
Saturday, August 09, 2008
Happy Anniversary!
Happy Anniversary Larry and Connie and Bob And Karen!!!!!
We look to you as GREAT role models!
Gene Parmesan! - actually the moment they figured out Chester was on the way
Some other pretty good couples...
We look to you as GREAT role models!
Gene Parmesan! - actually the moment they figured out Chester was on the way
Some other pretty good couples...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
The Huddys in MN - 2008
Here are some photos from Larry and Connie's visit.
Here's a link to the photos from last year's visit.
Here's a link to the photos from last year's visit.
Monday, June 02, 2008
Happy Birthday Mom
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Happy Birthday Marti
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Happy Birthday Connnie!
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Photo of the Week 4/16/08
Here's this week's photo of the week - Maggie turned 9 today. We celebrated by going to the dog park. Apparently last year we weren't as ambitious.
Labels: Family, Photo_of_the_week
Sunday, April 06, 2008
Abbie's Birthday Photos
Abbie's birthday photo's didn't get uploaded this year as I was busy with my job switch - so here they are..
Happy Birthday Silly Larry!
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Happy Easter Message
Monday, February 18, 2008
Gunflint Trail Weekend
Erika and I spent the weekend on the Gunflint Trail. I really put my camera through a workout as I took 735 pictures. Unfortunately, they all didn't turn out, but here are some of the good ones.
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Geek Dad
I sent an email to one of the writers of the Geek Dad blog (one of my favorite sites for cool things to do with kids - they also love Star Wars stuff) about the Magic Garden and they posted about it - click here to see their post - with my picture and a link to this site. That was pretty cool to read. They referred to Abbie as a Geeklet - when I told her that, she didn't quite know what to think.
A comment from their site said we could make our own magic garden and here's a link on how to do it. Very cool - we're on the look out for Mrs Stewart's Bluing - the toughest ingredient to find.
A comment from their site said we could make our own magic garden and here's a link on how to do it. Very cool - we're on the look out for Mrs Stewart's Bluing - the toughest ingredient to find.
Labels: Family
Saturday, January 05, 2008
The Magic Garden
Abbie got a fun Christmas present from Aunt Mary and Uncle Roger that we did this weekend. It's called the Magic Garden - here's a link to the web site. One tip I would recommend is to find a permanent home for it before adding the magic. We had a couple of trees fall over this morning as we were cleaning around it. Check out the photos - thanks Mary and Rog!
Labels: Family
Saturday, December 29, 2007
CO Christmas 2007
Erika still has the "old camera", so all the pictures aren't here yet and thus the skipping of the photo of the week, but here's some pictures from our Christmas in Colorado from my new camera - a great Christmas gift from a great wife!!!
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| CO Christmas 2007 |
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Photo of the Week - Week of 12/16/07
Sunday, December 09, 2007
Riley's Baptism Weekend
We had a great weekend - a truly amazing couple of days. Highlights include, snow shoeing, chopping down our Christmas tree, making a wreath, dinner at the Gunflint Tavern, meeting Riley and seeing Darci and Chris, Riley's baptism, dinner from Mom, getting a flat tire and stealing somebody's shoes.
Here's a few good photos from this weekend.
Note, Erika and I snow shoed the Caribou Rock Trail - here's a good map of the area we hiked. We made real close to Canada, but turned around before we went in.
Here's a few good photos from this weekend.
Note, Erika and I snow shoed the Caribou Rock Trail - here's a good map of the area we hiked. We made real close to Canada, but turned around before we went in.
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| Grand Marais Dec 2007 |
Labels: Family
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Up coming weekend plans
Erika, Abbie and I are heading to Clemson this coming weekend to see Erika's family and all the tailgater's to see Clemson play Boston College this coming weekend. Erika and I went to a game last year and it was awesome. Clemson is currently on top of the ACC with a record of 8-2, 5-2 in the conference and Boston College is second with a record of 8-2, 4-2 in the conference. Here's a video of the 25 most exciting seconds in college football.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Trip to Grand Marais
This weekend, Abbie, Erika, Maggie, Adrian and I pilled in the car and drove up to Grand Marais to see Grandma and Grandpa. We got up to Grandma and Grandpa's late friday. Grandpa wasn't there when we got there as he was watching the UMD Bulldogs beat the St. Cloud State Huskies 2 - 1.
We got up, had a good breakfast and Erika and I went for a run along Lake Superior while Grandma, Grandpa and Abbie made cookies. Then we went to Magney State Park and hiked the 178 stairs to the falls. The water was flowing extremely fast as they have had record rain falls the last couple months. Abbie lead the charge up the stairs on the way back! We stopped at Paradise Beach on Lake Superior and tried to throw all the rocks back in the water. I took the dogs over to Pincushion trails for a quick walk. Grandma made a great dinner and the adults played a couple of games of yahtzee.
We got up and went to Cascade River and hiked up to those falls. Again, the water was unbelievable. We then went to the Colvill Fire Department where one of Dad's friends showed Abbie the equipment and gave her a doll. Here are the photos.
We got up, had a good breakfast and Erika and I went for a run along Lake Superior while Grandma, Grandpa and Abbie made cookies. Then we went to Magney State Park and hiked the 178 stairs to the falls. The water was flowing extremely fast as they have had record rain falls the last couple months. Abbie lead the charge up the stairs on the way back! We stopped at Paradise Beach on Lake Superior and tried to throw all the rocks back in the water. I took the dogs over to Pincushion trails for a quick walk. Grandma made a great dinner and the adults played a couple of games of yahtzee.
We got up and went to Cascade River and hiked up to those falls. Again, the water was unbelievable. We then went to the Colvill Fire Department where one of Dad's friends showed Abbie the equipment and gave her a doll. Here are the photos.
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| Grand Marias 200710 |
Labels: Family
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Happy Birthday Chris!!
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Riley Robert Hughes
Here's the email I got from Darci and Chris...
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Friends and Family,
We are proud to announce the arrival of Riley Robert Hughes on Friday,
September 14, 2007. He weighed in at 6lbs 13oz and is 20.5-inches long.
Darci went into labor at 12:30 on Friday morning. After 17 hours of labor,
the doctors thought it was in everybody's best interest to perform a
C-Section and Riley arrived at 6:08 Friday evening. We were all given the
okay to go home on Tuesday, Septemer 18th and Riley, Mom and Dad are all
healthy and doing great!
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Friends and Family,
We are proud to announce the arrival of Riley Robert Hughes on Friday,
September 14, 2007. He weighed in at 6lbs 13oz and is 20.5-inches long.
Darci went into labor at 12:30 on Friday morning. After 17 hours of labor,
the doctors thought it was in everybody's best interest to perform a
C-Section and Riley arrived at 6:08 Friday evening. We were all given the
okay to go home on Tuesday, Septemer 18th and Riley, Mom and Dad are all
healthy and doing great!
Labels: Family
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Abbie Interview
I'm working on my video editing skills for a cool video of the house. Here's some of my practice work...
Labels: Family
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Welcome Riley Robert Hughes!
I'm not sure what the proper etiquette is for this, but I gotta put this on the site soon...Darci had Riley Robert Hughes on Friday night, September 14th - one day after her birthday! He was 6 pounds, 13 ounces. I'm not sure if the spelling is correct, but the report from Grandma is that he's cute as a button.
I'll post photos as soon as I get them!
I'll post photos as soon as I get them!
Labels: Family
Friday, September 14, 2007
Happy Birthday Darci!!
Happy Birthday to Darci. Note - the big birthday present is coming soon! Maybe today!!!
Labels: Family
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
A Bit of Trivia
Today was the first day there was Mrs. Lohn was teaching students in Minnesota Public Schools since 1983. I was in 4th grade and my mom taught 6th grade in the same school. Note Erika taught here last year, but she wasn't Mrs. Lohn.
Labels: Family
Sunday, August 12, 2007
The Huddys in MN
I know that thelohns.com has a big southern US following. The main reason is because of Connie, Larry and Sammie. Well, they are up here visiting, so to Ya'll down south, here's some photos of their visit....so far...I'll publish more soon.
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| Connie and Larry's Visit 2007 |
Labels: Family
Photo of the Week - Week of 8/12/07
Here's the photo of the week - Erika in the kayak and Connie and Larry in the canoe. This is taken on Poplar Lake at my parent's cabin on the Gunflint trail. They are heading to an island where we had a picnic.
Labels: Family, Photo_of_the_week
Thursday, August 02, 2007
The 35W Bridge - we are all OK!
Thankfully all our families do not know anyone who was directly affected by the 35W bridge collapse yesterday.
Here's a link to the bridge with my work and our house to get some perspective to where it happened.
Here's a story Marti worked on about it.
Here's a link to the bridge with my work and our house to get some perspective to where it happened.
Here's a story Marti worked on about it.
Labels: Family
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
My Daughter the Genius
It's time for me to brag. Abbie is very smart. She's four years, two months and twenty six days old. Today we sat down and started painting. The painting turned into drawing and writing. Then she wanted to write people's names. I spelled them and she wrote them. Above is the list of names she wrote. She also started numbering them. The G, L and W in the upper right corner was me showing her how to make those letters. These were the only ones she had trouble with. She didn't know all the numbers, but she knew that 10 came after 9 and she also knew how to make an 11.
Another thing that blew my mind tonight was on the drive home it started to rain, then it started to get sunny. I pointed to the sky and said it looks like over there it's sunny. She said, "Well don't we turn this way (pointed to the right) when we go home, so it should be sunny over there." That was about 2 miles from home and she knew that we were going to head towards the sun. It's probably me just making a big deal over it, but I was pretty impressed.
Labels: Family
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Skidder
Erika goes biking every Thursday night and last week, she had a bit of an incident. Below is the story from one of her friends about what happened. Note - she didn't fall - she's an exceptional athlete.
About 13 miles into the ride, riding 20+ mph, Erika's chain locked up and sent her skidding the length of a football field - OK, maybe that's a slight exaggeration... but really, check out the picture (taken with Madonna's camera phone). There was a skid mark from me in back to Erika in front. And she managed to stay upright the whole time! amazing! In what I imagine looked something like a 3 stooges episode, we attempted to dislodge the chain (knocking helmets, falling over, you know...) until a self-proclaimed "mechanical genius" made it his personal mission to fix it, but Travis still had to come bail us out....and Erika will now be known as "Skid" or "Skidder".
Labels: Family
Monday, May 21, 2007
Happy Birthday Rena!
Rena turns 6 tomorrow! I called Darci and Chris tonight and Chris was baking a cake for her!
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Happy Birthday Marti!!
Monday, May 14, 2007
Gunflint Trail Fires
Here's some information on the fires on the Gunflint. Dad was forced to evacuate the cabin on Thursday, 5/10/07 (I think) but then was allowed back in on Friday. He's got the sprinkler system going and so far the word is any place with a sprinkler system hasn't burned. It's looking better, but they are not out of the woods yet. The cabin is on Poplar Lake and it is a half a mile west of the Trail Center, which is a reference point mentioned quite often.
Here's some links with good info:
http://www.hamlakefire.com/
http://boreal.org/
http://www.mnics.org/Incidents/fire_1.shtml
http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/forests/superior/
http://www.inciweb.org/incident/660/
Here's a Google Map that I tried to show where the cabin is in location to the fire.
UPDATE:
As of today 5/16/07 at 6:00 PM:
Acres burned: 75,851 acres. 36,443 acres in the United States; 39,408 acres in Canada. Containment is now estimated at 35% for the entire fire; U.S. estimated at 65%. Projected containment date: May 20, 2007
Costs: $7,372,568
From this page
Here's some links with good info:
http://www.hamlakefire.com/
http://boreal.org/
http://www.mnics.org/Incidents/fire_1.shtml
http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/forests/superior/
http://www.inciweb.org/incident/660/
Here's a Google Map that I tried to show where the cabin is in location to the fire.
UPDATE:
As of today 5/16/07 at 6:00 PM:
Acres burned: 75,851 acres. 36,443 acres in the United States; 39,408 acres in Canada. Containment is now estimated at 35% for the entire fire; U.S. estimated at 65%. Projected containment date: May 20, 2007
Costs: $7,372,568
From this page
Labels: Family
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Happy Mother's Day
Happy Mother's Day to the greatest mom/grandma, step mom and soon to be mother-in-law in the world!
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Tomorrow's Plans
We've got a big day planned for tomorrow. Abbie, Erika, Maggie, Adrian and I are getting up and heading to the cabin in Annadale for a lunch picnic and a swim for the dogs. After that, we are coming home to barbecue with Marti and Erik. We going to take Abbie home at 6:30 and are going for a bike ride on the way home. I will be riding my new bike from Erika!!!
Labels: Family
Friday, April 13, 2007
Maggies Birthday
Today Maggie turned 8! We've had a big day of watching squirrels and snoozing!
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
The Peterson Family Reunion
I'm heading to Colorado tomorrow night for the Peterson Family reunion - here's the schedule of events:
Labels: Family
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Easter Eggs
This weekend Abbie, Erika and I colored Easter Eggs. I think the funnest part for Abbie and Erika was watching me attempt to blow the egg's insides out and seeing my face turn red. Here's a photo of our work.
Labels: Easter, Family, Holidays
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Information on our wedding:
The wedding will be held at the Shepherd of the Sea Lutheran Church in Myrtle Beach at 2:30 PM on June 30th by Pastor Richard Webber.http://www.shepherdofthesea.com/
Address:
2637 Hwy 17S Garden City, P.O. Box 1750
Murrells Inlet, SC 29576
Telephone: 843.651.7377
Click here for a map
The reception will be on the Jungle Princess - Myrtle Beach's most unique tour and dinner boat. Boarding starts at 4:30 and sets sail at 5:00 for a 3 hour cruise (as in Gilligan's Island). We have the DJ for up to 5 hours so hopefully we can continue to party at the dock for a little while.
http://www.mbriverboat.com/
Click here for a map
Ripley's Aquarium reserved for the Groom's dinner on Friday night 6/29/07
http://www.ripleysaquarium.com
Address:
1110 Celebrity Circle
Myrtle Beach, SC 29577
Telephone: 1-800-734-8888
Click here for a map
We've got a block of rooms reserved at the Fairfield Inn/Marriott under "Huddy/Lohn Wedding" - for reservations call 1-800-217-1511.
http://marriott.com/hotels/travel/myrfb-fairfield-inn-myrtle-beach-broadway-at-the-beach/
Address:
1350 Paradise Circle
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 29577 USA
Telephone: 1-843-444-8097
Click here for a map
Contact Information:
Email Andy
Cheers!
Thursday, March 22, 2007
The story of how we got engaged
We went out for sushi to Nami Restraurant in Minneapolis on February 17th to really celebrate Valentine's day. We had a nice dinner on Valentine's day at home and had I had one more glass of wine, I probably would have asked Erika that night - but I wanted to stick with the plan. So we went out for some sushi - I don't even remember if it was very good because I was pretty nervous. In my cool manner, I told Erika it had been a good run being boyfriend and girlfriend (literally, that's what I said) then asked her. She said yes and the waiter saw what had happened and brought us some champagne.
We called our families on the way home and then got up and played broomball the next day. Darci and Chris were up and we ruined their plans of announcing that Darci is pregnant! She let us have our weekend and waited a week to announce that news to the family!
Erika's ring has my Grandma's (My mom's mom) diamond in it. She gave it to me a while back just in case. I asked Connie and Larry's permission over Christmas in Colorado. I didn't have the ring made or a plan of how and when I was going to ask her at that time, so they waited patiently for a month and a half. I found out on the drive home that the permission was only good for two months, so I just made it!
Well said Andy! Now I get to add the feminine touch and my side of the story...
First of all, when we arrived (later than planned, because we had gone cross-country skiing on a frozen lake at a house we were looking at) we were seated in a secluded corner booth that Andy had reserved. Very romantic! The sushi was, indeed, VERY good! I did notice, because I was thinking that the sushi would be the highlight of the night!! After dinner was over, Andy did start commenting on the "good run," which caught me off guard. It was a perfect break-up line!! The next thing I know he is down on his knee with a gorgeous ring! The best way to describe my reaction was similar to the reactions on American Idol when they find out that their going to Hollywood. You know, the crying hysterical happiness we in the audience make fun of. Yep, that was me. The "yes" was definitely an easy answer to his question!!
Andy truly planned the perfect evening!
Oh yes, I thought about playing broomball with no gloves on the next morning, but it was too cold!
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Winter 2007 Pictures
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Abbie Snowshoeing Part 2
Monday, March 12, 2007
Snowshoes and a Snowman Family
Erika, Abbie and I spent the weekend outside building a snow family and snowshoeing on the snowshoes Grandpa made. Here's clip #1 of the snow shoeing.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Back from a Colorado Christmas
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Merry Christmas
Here's some photos from our Christmas celebration.
My house is on the market - here's the listing
My truck is for sell - here's the listing as well.
My house is on the market - here's the listing
My truck is for sell - here's the listing as well.
Labels: Family
