Saturday, May 22, 2010

Bil Gangl relay

In April, Ethan's kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Brass, invited families to participate with her in a memorial relay walk/run for a beloved Mahtomedi teacher, Mr. Bil Gangl. We headed out to the track and had a great time walking to celebrate Mr. Gangl's life and amazing positive impact on so many students during his life.

Ethan was inspired by all the track and field athletes and started off running. He completed a full 1/4 mile lap on pace with a high school runner who was impressed by his stamina.

Then he decided to do a lap or two with Mrs. Brass.

Mary Kate was more into short sprints and the "On your mark, get set, go!" part.
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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Goodbye Qwest/MSN...hello again cable internet...we missed you!

We've officially given up on Qwest/MSN and switched back to Comcast. Even though it's more expensive, our internet access had become so unbearingly slow, I stopped trying to upload pictures to Blogger in February. Our new connection is blazing fast, so watch out! We've got lots of pictures to post.

We've also switched to Picasa for photo management and it has a "Blog This" feature. Somehow, these pictures are aligned along the left side of the blog...we'll see how that looks after I post this update.

On to some long overdue updates. Let's start with Easter! Easter morning was quite warm by Minnesota standards. Our entire month of April was significantly warmer than usual. The kids were up before 7 am on Easter morning and hunting eggs in the backyard by 7:15. No frost/snow and parkas this year! The egg hunt pics are below, but here is a nice shot of the kids on Saturday before church.
Mary Kate really got into finding her eggs and hamming it up for the camera everytime she found one.
The egg hunting must have worn the kids out a bit...so they decided to relax in the hammock for a while before breakfast.
After church, we enjoyed a nice dinner at Grandpa's and more egg hunting, of course!
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