Monday, December 26, 2011

a year of "lovelights"

as the year comes to an end i have been thinking about the past 12 months...travel and life lived and lived so well.  

2011 has been odds defying...ginny has had a chemo free year...the growth, although active, is doing so at a rate that has not interfered with the living of an adventurous and love filled life.

here are some of my "lovelights" for 2011

1. trip to weeki watchee florida to see friends dan and kris wee...

2. a season of minnesota opera tickets (a lovelight for ginny-not so much for kir)
3. london dash 2011
 the joy ginny finds in crazy street performers
 a great birthday surprise and love and friendship
4. a weekend on the central coast (california) with sarah
5. a week-long visit with friend sue blough...she made the trip to minnesota...
(excuse the stick sue-how she was here a week without a picture taken is beyond me)

6. the boundary waters trip with a group of students from the high school
 my camp...
7. france - the day with the dead was a lovelight, as was coffee with austin friends tim and bonnie...

8. rimbach, germany and the people in ginny's german life...


9. copenhagen
10. turkey


 11. manitoba visit...grandma and a visit with veronica
 wisconsin dells
 love the time with the kiddos jayme and dustin...
12. summer mini road trips...
 masonic park
 fossil park

12. a boys "unbirthday"
 lake superior
 the pihlaja-johnson trampoline
13. family time in baltimore

14. barcelona

15. lisbon

16. sintra day tour from lisbon


17.christmas at home with ginny, brother dan and of course, nadou and radar...

2012 is already promising to be as eventful...new year's in seattle with sister erika and kiddos jayme and dustin...a quick trip to celebrate a 20th wedding anniversary in california...a trip to visit our beloved kris wee and then february 10 i (kir) fly to africa with 3 other women on a rotary sponsored service trip...20 days in ghana...and that is just the beginning...

in 2012 we will celebrate big birthdays too...

here's to another lively and love-filled year...
kir & gin