AT PETE'S FOLKS, WALTER AND AILI,  OUR BABY AND HELMINEN'S BABY'S  GRAVE, CALUMET
EVA TOROLA, AILI TOROLA, REA TOROLA AND HEIDI LEUDEMAN

GEARING UP FOR A WILD RIDE ON THE TILT-A-WHIRL
LIZZIE AND TREVOR TOROLA

OH, OH, LOOK WHO ELSE WENT ON A WILD RIDE ON THE TILT-A-WHIRL?
SCREAM AND LAUGH, SAYS THE OLD LADY!

MARYJEAN DAAVETTILA ENJOYING THE ALPACA AT THE FAIR

KEN LESPERANCE, ?, FRANTTI, HALONEN
sorry, lost the names

My relative, WILLIE RAJALA AND SON KYLE

BUNCHA GIRLS AT CHURCH

VICKIE AND VALERIE ANDERSON

CHOW TIME FOR MARK LUOMA, PHIL LASANEN, JEREMY HILL AND JARED POYHONEN

VALLEY GIRLS...LEFT, HYRKAS, AND KARINIEMI'S

WOODFORDS AND UNCLE WES VISITING THE CASITA (AND ME)
(DICK HAS WES'S CANE, BY THE WAY)

                                     DAN AND HEIDI HELMINEN AND FOUR...AT THE CASITA

ANOTHER COMMERCIAL...BREAKIES, CALUMET
24 X 36 ACRYLIC...$500

JOHN KERANEN (PRISCILLA) WILL BE 80 YEARS YOUNG ON FRIDAY, AUG. 30
SEND HIM A CARD, MAKE HIS DAY...44711 BOOTJACK RD., LAKE LINDEN, MI  49945

WATCHING COPPER HARBOR PARADE...LARSONS, HYRKAS, HELMINEN, WES AND ME

THE FOLLOWING ARE PICS. OF OUR SUN. SCHOOL PICNIC AT THE "BI"...IT WAS RAINING

BEN FRANTTI AT BRIDGEFEST PARADE
PARENTS, KRISTEN AND JACK FRANTTI

getting ready to watch bridgefest parade in hancock
carol jurmu, marie cooper, verna daavettila, me

JASON AND KELLY ERVA AND FAMILY, EATING PIZZA AND WAITING FOR THE PARADE

KRISTEN FRANTTI (JACK), KAREN, BOB, AND HELEN PIETILA

ERVA'S DAUGHTER GETTING A HUG AT THE PARADE

TWO JUOPPERI SISTERS, KAREN AND MICHELLE, MARRIED TO MCCALL BROTHERS

TWINS, MAX AND MARISSA MC CALL

ME AND TAAVI...GLEN AND SHANNA HYRKAS' BABY

KAREN DAAVETTILA AND DENISE JOHNSON IN MPLS. THIS SPRING

NEWLY ENGAGED:  TRAVIS PENNALA, SON OF DON AND LORETTA, AND EMILY SHEFFER, DAUGHTER OF SARAH AND RALPH SHEFFER....WEDDING IN OCTOBER.

CAROLINE & DAN LARSON WEDDING AUG. 13, 2013

DAUGHTER OF WES AND BARB PIETILA, SON OF NANCY AND JACK LARSON

JACK AND NANCY

SWEET LIL FLOWER GIRL

BARB AND WES PIETILA

BEST BUDDIES..CAROLINE AND EMILY CURTIS

MORE BEST BUDDIES:  LIZA (DAN AND HEIDI'S) AND GRANDPA BRIAN HELMINEN

2013 SUOMI SALMON DERBY WINNERS:
ROB MCCOLL, STEVE LESPERANCE, CAPTAIN KEN LESPERANCE, AND MARK HAATAJA.
photo from one of these guys, thanks

THE STORY ABOUT THIS BUSH ON THE ROAD.  CARJIE TOROLA CAME TO THE CASITA AND CUT SOME TREES DOWN TO MAKE MORE SUNSHINE ON MY FLOWERS, AND LOADED ALL OF THE TREES ON HIS TRUCK.  HE PULLED OUT OF THE DRIVEWAY, AND ALL YOU COULD SEE WAS THIS BUSH TOOLING DOWN THE ROAD.  WHATTA SIGHT!!!

MY FRIENDS FROM DOWNSTATE, KIRSTEN AND BETHANY NIEMI, WHO TELL ME THEY LOOK AT MY BLOG EVERY DAY....HI GIRLS!!!

COUSINS...TAIVALKOSKI, HILL, TOLKKINEN, HILL

MOSTLY COUSINS...ALLEN TOLKKINEN, WALLY TOROLA,  ROSS YLITALO
LOWELL SKOOG, BACK, GARY HELMINEN, TIM KORKKO

                                             JIM KASTAMO MADE IT TO ST. JOHN'S!...WITH SON MARTY

KIDS IN LINE FOR CHOW

MY SISTER-IN-LAW, LANA HEINONEN WITH HER GR/DAUGHTER, NORA
(JEFF & ANNA KANGAS' BABY)

LARS HALT, GR/SON OF SARA & MIKE....HE IS LOOKING AT ME AS IF TO SAY, "WHO DAT?"

MY GRANDDAUGHTERS, MALS AND MARS TOROLA, DAUGHTERS OF CARL AND BETH