We actually drove into town the day before my sister in law, Chelsea's, big piano performance. She won a contest and was featured with the Milwaukee Philharmonic Symphony. Huge honor! Congrats:)
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| Silly Uncle! |
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| Love this picture:D |
We also got to see lots of THIS: From the beginning of the season to the end, Keat actually cut his race time by seriously 8 minutes. Awesome job! Lots of hard work, I know. We were there:)
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| Keaton running Cross Country |
We were able to pick out pumpkins with the Fam!
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| (Some good looking pumpkins:) |
Next came carving them:) Father-in-Law, Larry, does a cyclops EVERY year!
Our neighbor down the street gets REALLY into Halloween. His entire yard is filled with gravestones and lights, and skulls and pumpkins and spiders and ghosts and FIRE!!! He build these contraptions to blow fire! It's AWESOME!!!
I guess we just skipped Thanksgiving and went straight on to Christmas. Isn't that how it feels sometimes. Forget what you're grateful for because you're too busy thinking of all the things you WANT:( But I do love Christmas! And that means Ward Christmas Party!!!
Then you have Lars who gets the opportunity to join a band where ever he goes:) They (The Mental Ward:) played some songs too.
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| Lars is in the white shirt and black tie on the left. He's such a CUTIE!!! |
Then, of course, the New Year celebrations. Us Shurilla's crashed the Chausow's festivities! They sure know how to throw a party. Presents, prizes, games, food, fun, everything you need:) I won the 'guess how many balloons' game! I never win:( I think our pics capture perfectly the atmosphere.
Oh, and how could we forget that following our New Year's Eve frivolities came the SHOCKING Polar Bear Plunge!!! Poor Lars. He really is an amazing husband! Last time we were in Wisconsin for New Year's Day I had wanted to do the Polar Bear Plunge so bad but it just didn't work out:( So I made Lars promise me that if we were ever in WI again on New Year's Day that he would make sure to do it with me. Much to his irritation. So this year...WE DID IT!!! Thanks to Donny and Sissy! Especially grateful for their hot tub afterwards:D
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| Beautiful Day at Lake Michigan:) |
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| Everyone gathering together... |
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| All bundled up! |
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| Trotting in... |
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| ...and RUNNING OUT! |
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| WE DID IT!!! |
I don't think Lars completely dunked himself but I'm just grateful he did it at all. Love you!
Next adventure was coaching the Young Women's volleyball team for the Lake Michigan ward. If any of you know me this is a dream come true! I LOVE VOLLEYBALL and the YOUNG WOMEN!!!
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| Pretty amazing group of YW! |
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| We so TUFF! |
Aw, here is the Wisconsin winter we love/hate so much!
Lars also got some fun with the Young Men in the Lake Michigan ward! Check it out HERE:)
Or here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRCQMXUTqsM
It was pretty funny. Lars and I got asked to watch a couple family in the ward's children quite a few times. We loved it! There were the Passey's and the Ashby's and later the Currey's. But we absolutely fell in love with the Passey's yard! Very spacious with trees and even a stream! Their kids were pretty cool too:) Lars was trying to capture the rainbow trout that were spawning in the stream in their backyard. Pretty cool! You can hear Elias in the background. He was pretty excited!
Also, they had a super adorable pumpkin named Aurora (I think that's how you spell it.)
Well, definitely by this time we realized that we were going to be here longer than originally intended...so I got a job...
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| This is our goal chart for the month of April I thought it was cute. Yay me! |
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| Couple coworkers: Amy and Ashley |
Working at a bank was actually pretty stressful! And my branch seemed to have a lot of DRAMA!!! I sure learned A LOT! I hope.
EASTER!!! Lars was having fun dying eggs:
Lars has also been having fun with music. He was working with his brother, Keaton, a lot to learn how to create "Chipmusic" or "Chiptunes". Basically making music on Gameboys like these:
This lead Lars to enter a contest for a radio station which he won! Winning him a spot to play at Summerfest 2012!!! Skip ahead to July 3, 2012:
Check him out at http://thelaohu.com/
He actually just released some new music!
Most likely do a specific post about that in the future:)
...Now back to the winter of 2012 in our One Year Adventure with the In-Laws...
Winter soon melted away into, my favorite season, SPRING!!!
(Decided I needed to split up this adventure into two posts so THE END of Part 1:)
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