happy birthday Kim

The truly wonderful Kim Blomgren is celebrating her birth anniversary on November 6.  We love you and are thankful that you are part of the family.

it's official Nels! was elected

My little cousin Nels Theodore Pierson III was elected to represent district 26B to the Minnesota State House.  His big dreams are coming true.

Love you little cousin!

eye to eye

It's official.  I am no longer in first place for the second tallest person in our family.  A and I are officially tied.  Bummer and Yahoo at the same time.

igo is 6!

Our precious Godson Ivan George is now 6 years old.  When his Mom asked him what it felt like, he said "faster".

fall back

One of the best days of the year and I was able to sleep in!  Brad and the kids are up north chopping wood.  I am at home because I had a math workshop yesterday and today I am going to do a little cleaning and also get school work done!  It's 6:45 and the sky is light.  It will be interesting to see how soon the sky will be dark this evening.  Happy standard time everyone!

(image found online)

counting the loot

Since we started trick or treating and having children in school, we have made it an activity to sort and count our haul from our evening...here is KGO sorting and counting...she found that Butterfinger was the most popular treat handed out in 2014.

carving

On Thursday night, Brad carved with the kids.  The kids still don't like to touch the "guts" of the pumpkin, but K and O did a nice job of carving.  Here are some photos of the finished product:

A's pumpkin carved by himself

O's pumpkin

Mom's pumpkin carved by K

Brad's pumpkin

the Littlest pumpkin on the top right and K's Elsa pumpkin on lower left

O with all the pumpkins

getting ready for Halloween

O was beside himself this year in the preparation for Halloween.  On Saturday, we went to the annual Mitchell Halloween bash were we were dressed up.  O thought that Halloween was then over.  But we got two more chances for celebration.  The first was family fun fest at church.  Here is O and K getting some face paint.  They had fun in the bounce house and enjoyed the evening.

happy 14th birthday Abby Rae

Sweet Abby Rae turned 14 on the 24th of October.  Wishing you strength, love and hugs from the Olsons.

Abby with her sister Anna and Dad Kent (Abby's in red)

big A

Also, another really nice photo from our 7th grader...those days are just flying by aren't they?

big O

He is happy on this one!

Thanks to Grandma B for teaching me how to have a nice conversation about taking a nice picture for our wall.  He even seemed to enjoy!