BAPTISM OF ALEX HELMINEN, (RUSSELL and KATRINA) WITH SISTERS LILY AND MAGGIE

DOUBLE BAPTISMS OF ALEX AND OTTO HELMINEN (JENNA and STANLEY)

DAVID, CARLA, BUTCH, COOKIE, JULIE, JERRY, ME

Christmas dinner at Julie and Jerry’s

BARB HEINONEN, DEAN HEINONEN, ISAIAH BEKKALA, BRADIE AND KATIE BEKKALA

SIBS, COOKIE JERRY, ME

 

MY RECENT PAINTINGS FROM AROUND THE COPPER COUNTRY..all for sale

 

The angel has returned…I asked for a shoehorn for Christmas, and got 

Shoehorns  in the first six gifts, and the last gift was the angel in a shoe with this note! 

OPENING THE SHOEHORN GIFTS…GOT NO. 7 later

ME AND SOME GREAT GRANDS (106 altogether) AT OUR CHRISTMAS PARTY

THE WHOLE CREW…SANG, SKITS, GAMES, EAT

BLESSED CHRISTMAS

 

WEDDING IN MENAHGA, MN. THIS WEEKEND 

CAROL PINONIEMI AND PAULHALONEN

 

 

 VISITED DAUGHTER LEAH IN  DULUTH RECENTLY, AND WE ATE REAL GOOD AT BRIDGEMANS …OPEN WIDE, JOYCE (Margie’s daughter)

ME RELAXING AT LEAHS WITH CARRIE’S DOG,

LEAH, HER  SON AULLEN AND I

PRISCILLA KERANEN WITH HER BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS ON A LADIES TRIP RECENTLY.  AS USUAL, I CANT FIND THEIR NAMES THAT I HAD WRITTEN DOWN

 

I WAS ASKEDTO HOLD A SIMPLE WATERCOLOR CLASS AT GARDEN VIEW ASSISTED LIVING….I GLADLY WENT…WE HAD A FEW THAT WERE REALLY INTERESTED 

THIS RUTH JURMU

MY BROTHER-IN-LAW JACK HAATAJA 

IT WAS FUN, FELT LIKE HUGGING THEM

 

LATEST PAINTINGS….FROM $35 to $600….from 4 x 4”, 6 x 6”, to 16 x 20 framed

 

An 8 x 10 acrylic painting. Just finished ($150)

CHRISTMAS tree time…I have memories when I decorate…I tried to buy an ornament from each place we traveled, so I enjoy decorating the tree

TWO SPECIAL BELOVED MEN…CHESTER YLITALO AND MY PETE

TOMAS READING TO VALENTINA AND TONY…TEXAS

BAPTISM OF NED PETER TOROLA, SON OF AMY AND BRIAN…(Brians parents are Dave and Ann)

WE ARE ALL GREAT  GRANDPARENTS.. CAROL RYYNANEN, ME BETTYAND RAY HALONEN

 

THIS WAS SHOWN IN. CHURCH LAST NIGHT, ITS A.  NEAT PHOTO, SO I WILL POST IT

JEANETTE JUNTI, ED AND ELAINE JUNTI PARENTS,  CAROLYN AND ELI, AURORA AND ELI KANGAS, RON, LITTLE GIRL LORENE, REUBEN, AND AILI

 

MY GRANDSON GREG HYRKAS AND HIS WIFE JESSICA

(Carrie’s son)

A very old photo. FROM SAN CARLOS, CA. AT ANTTI  AND DOROTHY PANTSARI’s HOUSE.  THE GIRLS TOOK A BUS THERE AND BACK…I CANT FIND THE NAMES BUT  I WILL TRY TO NAME SOME…CARRIE, MARGIE, HEIDI, TRUDI, LEAH,  KATIE AND PAULA TOLKKINEN, IMPOLA FAMILY…

A HAPPY TIME WITH MY GRANDS AND GREATS..TOP, JULIA AHO W BABY DAISY, BOTTOM, CORRINA AND MOM ANDREA, JOYCE W BABY ANNIKA

GREAT GRAND (Greg son) WITH HIS PET CHICKEN

 

My nephew Carl kangas (my brother Earl’s son) and family , Carl on the right with his wife Trudy…they live in Longview…note who’s sitting down! 

OUR FORMER MINISTER, PAUL HEIDEMAN

A GREAT CRUISE WITH NORWEGIAN CRUISE LINE AND THESE PROPLE FROM THE COPPER COUNTRY RECENTLY…NOVA SCOTIA, QUEBEC AND A FEW MORE STOPS

AN OLD BELOVED PICTURE…AT THE CASITA

 

FARLEY SENT ME THIS PHOTO OF THE GREAT TENNIS PLAYERS (THANKS!,)

FARLEY HALONEN, PAUL KIVISTO, CHUCK KESKEY, BRIAN HUOTARI, MIKKO HALONEN, BOB ANDERSON, BRUCE YLITALO, JEFF HUOTARI 

 

 

DORIS SON JAY CAME TO TAKE US BACK TO GIG HARBOR WHERE DORIS LIVES

WE TOOK A CAR FERRY. AS WE WERE GETTING BACK IN THE CAR, AT THE LANDING, SOMEONE CALLED MY NAME! I WAS SO SHOCKED THAT SOMEONE WD CALL ME IN SEATTLE AREA….IT WAS RUTH DAUGHTER SANDRA AND HER DAUGHTER…WHAT .A COINCIDENCE!

JAY ON TOP DECK

MT. HOOD HOVERING LIKE A CLOUD

OFF TO OUR WAY HOME