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