WEDDING OF ABBY SCHECK (Matt and Kara) to WADE JOHNSON, (Jerry and Edie) on March 14, 2021 

 

ME WITH MY HANDSOME GRANDSONS...TREVOR AND LENNY TOROLA (Dave and Ann’s)

PHOENIX GANG ON VOLLEYBALL NIGHT...MIX OF RESIDENTS AND VACATIONERS

 

I was at SLIM’S in Mohawk w my grandsons...BRUCE ABD ROGER HELMINEN...I GAVE HIM MY PHONE AND SAID GO AND TAKE PICS....SO MANY FRIENDS WERE THERE.  HERE’S SOME

PAUL HAATAJA AND FAMILY

AND I FORGOT A PIC OF BRUCE AND ROGER!  Ding, ding!

AXEL ANDERSON AND GF MOLLY TOLKKINEN

JIMBOB, SARA KARINIEMI, KEN AND TESSIE JOHNSON

THIS PIC IS OUTA SYNC...PUTTING WINDOWS IN ROGER AND LORETTA HELMINENS HOUSE IN TRAPROCK...ROGER,  ANDY HEIKKINEN, ZACK TERVO, BRAD KANGAS

MORE SLIM’S...BRENNA HYRKAS, WAITRESS, DAN TARNOSKI, BRANNON TOROLA , ART ESKOLA, CRAIG ?, front..COLEN HARMALA, BRAD JOHNSON, REID LEHTO

Brother JERRY KANGAS WITH THEIR DOG JOSIE

 

Little girls with happy smiles....

My morning view

MORE KIDS AT CHURCH

OAK KNOLL, MPLS...WHEN WE WERE YOUNG..ME AND MY KIDS, ESTHER AND KIDS, DONT KNOW WHO THE OTHER LADY IS

MORE KIDS AT CHURCH

ME, BRIAN AND AMY TOROLA

Wow, I got my iPad in shape with my “Calvinator “ (Calvin Helminen, my IT guy)

 

CHURCH IN FLORIDA AT ANNIE AND KENNYS.WITH..LOREN KANGAS 

ME AND AIDEN (Loretta and Calvin Helminen baby)

BARB AND TIM KORKKO, AND WHAT IS DAVE DOING IN THE BACKGROUND

, HAH?

THE WICKSTROM FAMILY, FROM  IROQUOIS ST., LAURIUM...THE MAN ON THE LEFT WAS PETE’S GOOD. CHILDHOOD BUDDY, ALL THE WAY THRU TECH, AND HE VISITED WHEN HE CAME TO TOWN FROM  VIRGINIA. SOME OF THE GIRLS WERE FRIENDS OF PETES SISTERS.  ALL THE SISTERS CAME TO VISIT LAST SUMMER, AND WE HAD A GREAT TIME.

 

ERIC AND SHELLY TOROLA’S DAUGHTER MARRIED KRISTINE KILPELA’S SON RECENTLY

IM SORRY, CANT FIND MY NAMES....

 

YEARS AGO...BARBARA GRANROTH, JEANETTE KANGAS, AND ME...THE TWO LADIES WERE HODING THEIR BABIES, AND I DONT KNOW WHOSE BABY I AM HOLDING...THOSE WERE THE DAYS!

BUNCH OF CARVINGS I DID IN SO. PADRE ISLAND, TEXAS WHERE WE WINTERED FOR 9 YEARS....IM STARTING TO REFINE OR WRECK THEM, THEN REPAINT...

RECENT VISITORS...JOYCE ANDERSON, ME HOLDING DARLENE’s VALENTINA, DARLENE ROJAS

SO. PADRE CREW..DAVE , LINDA PELLI, CLIFF ANDERSON, GRACE, BOB NIEMELA, NANCY AND BILL MAKI...THREE COUPLES ON THE RIGHT WERE IN THE GANG WHO WENT TO TEXAS  when Pete and I went, years ago. (Thanks for pic, Grace)

My 83D BIRTHDAY CAKE AT DAVE AND ANN’S...

WOOPIE! THEY DIDNT DARE HAVE 83 CANDLES, IT WOULD HAVE STARTED A FIRE,OR ELSE I WOULDNT HAVE ENOUGH BREATH TO BLOW THEM OUT, 

SISTER COOKIE BROUGHT A MINI-CAKE AND RIB DINNER!  YUM!

RECENT VISIT TO CEDAR BAY....I WALKED A MILE BEFORE I WENT IN FOR COFFEE AT BOB AND LORRAINES