When you’re happy you smile.When you’re really happy,your eyes smile. Unknown October 23, 1954: The wedding service was held at a modest wooden church in the country a few miles outside of Chenoa. It was a simple, tasteful ceremony that was attended by friends of the couple and many family members from the area. There …
Something really big happened to us this past weekend — our daughter got married! Our hearts were overflowing with pride, joy, and love as Claire married Kyle. From the moment we met him we could see the sparkle in her eyes and knew that he was special. He’s truly the man of her dreams. I’ve …
While planning our trip across Iowa I noticed something on the atlas that caught my attention — the Museum of Danish America in Elk Horn, a small little farming community just north of I-80 in western Iowa. Given my Danish heritage — my dad’s parents both immigrated from Denmark making him 100% Danish, so Kirsten and …
We’ve been in and out of Chicago for the last three weeks to, among other things, attend a couple of showers given for our favorite bride and groom, Claire and Kyle. With the nuptials just seven weeks away and nearly all of the planning and details taken care of, we are all now just enjoying …
Today is Opening Day for the Cubs! Actually the game is this evening, but that’s just getting technical now, isn’t it…? The Cubs are back at Wrigley after a very successful spring training season out in Arizona [we went to opening day out there; see my Spring Training post] and today begins what is going to finally, after …
Monday, April 4th — After another fabulous long weekend in Chicago and lots more celebrating and partying which I’ll write about soon, we are now at Mom’s up here in Appleton where we’ll spend a few days visiting with her and my sister and her family. It’s basketball weekend, and as I write this post …
Fred is 60 today — hip, hip, horray! Fred at age 2, 1958; Fred’s graduation picture from Chenoa High School, 1974; Fred last week, nearly 60 As many of you know, Fred grew up in the small town of Chenoa [pop. 1,800] in central Illinois. During the course of our travels he has written articles …
For the last couple of days we’ve been hanging out in Palm Springs, courtesy of our long-time good friend from Chicago, Kathy, and her friends and now our new friends, Laury & Nancy. We left Charley behind in his RV Resort down the road for a few days and moved into Kathy, Laury & Nancy’s fancy …
This past weekend we traveled down to Galveston to visit our nephew Kyle who’s serving in the U.S. Coast Guard. After spending about a year and a half at a duty station in south Florida, he’s been stationed in Galveston for nearly four years and he recently put in for another year there. The reason: Alyssa. You may …
