THE FLORIDA GANG HAVING A FUN TIME WITH VALENTINES DAY!

Our25th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY 

HAYMAKING FOR OUR HORSES IN DAYS GONE BY.  THE  WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD CAME, THEY HAD A BLAST FOR BEING TOWNIES,  AFTER A WHILE, WE HAD NO HORSES,AND HALF A BARN HALF FULL OF HAY.  PETE ASKED CLIFF ANDERSON IF HE WANTED THE HAY, SO WE BORROWED CLIFF’S HAY WAGON,, LOADED THE HAY ON, PETE DRIVING THE TRACTOR,LOADED HAY AND ALL THE KIDS (and me) ON TOP…HAD TO GO DOWN PINE STREET,WHILE THE KIDS SANG OLD MAC DONLD HAD A FARM….GOT LOOKS FROM A FEW PEOPLE THAT SAW RHIS SPECTACLE.  THEIR LOOKS “SAID”. NOW IVE SEEN EVERYTHING. HAPPY FUM MEMORIES.  

 

RECENT  GIRL STUROS COUSINS ON A 

SKI TRIP  IN COLORADO

SOUTH PADRE GANG

THE STUROS SIBLINGS AFTER SHANNON’ S FUNERAL

PAUL, PETE,PHIL, DAVE, GRETCHEN, MARTHA, KURT, MIKE, JOHN

 

SERVICES IN FLORIDA AT KEN AND ANNIE HELMINEN, SPEAKER PETER NELSON

CELEBBRATING MY 87Th BIRTHDAY..CAKE, BALLOONS, FLOWERS, PHONE CALLS, FACETIME, ETC.  OTHER COMPANY CAME AND WENT..THIS IS DAVID AND ANN’S FAMILY…FEELING BLESSED AAND LOVED

AL AND MARIA’S FAMILY RECENTLY

COUPLE MORE BIRTHDAYPICS

TREVOR TOROLA AND I

 

GRANDSON CALVIN READING TO AIVA AND BEN AT MY HOUSE

REMEMBERING JULIE AND JERRY (my brother) 

 

RECENT PAINTING OF THE ANDREW JACKSON SHIP, 1855

BRUCE HELMINEN (Margie and Brian) and JOLENE LARSON ( Bruce and Michelle) ENGAGED, WEDDING IN APRIL

MARY AND CARJIE TOROLA AND FAMILY

VINCENT AND MARCY YLITALO…CELEBRATING HIS 89 th BIRTHDAY

 

WILLISTON, NORTH DAKOTA SUNDAY

SCHOOL CHRISTMAS PROGRAM

 

Bridge is down, snow added for snowmobiles

MY FOUR FAVORITE CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS

CASITA, (actual tiny original painting). PETE AND I, GRAMMA

MADDIE TOROLA AND GOOD FRIENDS

SIENNA ANDERSON, JACKIE KIILUNEN, MADDIE, ALLÍ BJORN, JADA HENDRICKSON

THANKSGIVING DINNER IN DULUTH WITH AVA,AULLEN, ME, LEAH AND HANK

2024

KATRINA HELMINEN WITH CHILDREN LILY, MAGGIE, ALEX AND KEVIN

AT THEIR NEW HOUSE NEAR AHMEEK

FOUND ANOTHER PHOTO I FORGOT TO POST FROM ST. JOHN TIME

MARGARET KANGAS, DONELLE AHO, LYNN MORTBERG, MOLLY YLITALO