Mike and Meghan's Wedding

On July 2, 2005 Mike and Meghan got married in Moscow, Idaho. It was a wonderful wedding and party! Here are some pictures of the celebration. Watch here for more photos.


Mr. and Mrs. M. Klein 


The proud parents of the bride. 


Meghan was beautiful! 


The wedding mobile 


Cheers! 

Idaho Wildflowers

Okay here's a test for you. See how many of these wildflowers you can name. We found them in the Idaho mountains around Prairie this last weekend.

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Evening Primrose

Before my parents moved out of their home on Leitch Avenue in La Grange years ago, we dug up an evening primrose to transplant at our home in Boise. Well, it worked and we've had many years of enjoyment from this unusual flower. It blooms in the evening and the flower literally pops open. In the morning the flower starts wilting and is gone. But it is beautiful. (No it is not a dandilion.)

Here you can see the bud before it blooms,


and this it what it looks like after it bursts open. If you look closely, you can see a flower that bloomed the day before and more buds coming.

Folkswinger Reunion at Wild Dunes

Thirty-eight years after the Folkswingers made that USO tour of Germany, we got together again - this time outside of Charleston, South Carolina. In 1997 we had our 30th year reunion in Hamburg, Germany with John and Pam. Three years later Mary and Craig made arrangements in Napa Valley, California. This year Rick and Chris reserved a seven-bedroom beach house at the Wild Dunes Resort. What a time we had!

Jeanette and I arrived early and stayed a few days with Rick and Chris in their beautiful home in Wilmington, North Carolina. They live right on the Inland Waterway and we took advantage of it.







Then John and Pam came up to Wilmington and we had snacks cruising on the Inland Waterway.


The next day we took off for Charleston and Wild Dunes. On the way we stopped and bought eight pounds of shrimp for the Folkswingers to snack on. But we had to wait for the customer ahead of us to finish his purchase.


Once we all got together, the fun began...


... dinner in Charleston,


... a carriage ride tour of the city,


... a look at an old cemetary,


... a visit to a plantation,


... and finally the traditional Folkswinger photo.


Thanks Rick and Chris for a great reunion. In three more years we will meet again, this time with Gary and Margaret, in the Washington DC area. Til then...

It's May, the merry month of May

Well, we have pretty much landscaped all we can around the pond. I'm sure we will add a few more plants and rocks, but mostly it's finished.



We have a few fish right now and we will be getting some tadpoles from a friend when they hatch. Think the fish or the raccoons will eat them? I guess we'll find out. Stay tuned.

Springtime in Boise

Okay, the Hawaii trip is still missing, but in the meantime you can look at our yard. The pond is slowly getting landscaped.





And the tulips are in full bloom in the front yard.



And we've even had a little rain - unfortunately very little!

Thanksgiving 2004

Wonder why there haven't been any postings in a while? Nothing has happened in Boise! I guess we could post pictures of us cleaning up the yard and getting it ready for winter, but we didn't think that would be very interesting. If you really want to see that, we can find some pictures, I suppose.

Thanksgiving was the most excitement around here for a while. We had 20+ people over for the 24.5 pound turkey. We ate way too much - as did most families, I bet. (But it was goood!)

Since we have 2 cats and it's getting colder outside, it seems like we are either letting cats in or out of the house. So we decided to have them let themselves or out whenever they want. Now our laundry room window had a cat door. (In case you were wondering, the laundry room is in the basement.)







While there hasn't been much excitement around Boise, there has been some in Santa Rosa, California. Winfield (aka Scott) proposed to Tracy earlier this week and she accepted. Congratulations to both of them! That means there are going to be two Klein weddings in 2005 - Mike's will be around the 4th of July and Winfield's should be at the end of summer, maybe September. When it rains, it pours.

Boise State or Fresno State???

The game of the year (for some people) is here and today is game day! The Duekers have traveled to Boise to watch the big football game. (Actually we are more excited about the visitors than the game, but...) We get to babysit while they go to the game tonight. I think we got the better end of the deal.

Notice Jake's sweatshirt - it says Boise State on it. Lance wasn't very excited when Jake got it for his birthday a couple weeks ago. (Now who would give him something like that?!?!?)







Anyhow, we are having great visit!

Off to Jacob's Birthday Party

We arrived in Fresno late Thurday night, so we didn't get to say hi to the kids. But the next morning...







Then came the birthday party! Can you guess what the theme was? Maybe Erin's cake will give you a clue. (Isn't Erin talented?)





Jacob was lucky that his backyard is huge, because the Bounce House was huge too. Not only in size, but it was a huge success with all the kids too.



And he blew out all the candles - all three of them!



The party was a great success. There were tons of people, food and presents. I think everyone had a wonderful time. But after it was all over, there was bath time.



Do you think this will last? Just wait until they are teens!