Flooding

Here are some pictures of the Red River Flooding. It actually came up even more after these pictures were taken. Hard to believe.


This is Wells Memorial Park ~ this is where our County Fair is held every year. The river flowed over the dike and filled up the fairgrounds and flooded all of the buildings down there.

The water started coming over the permanent dike here. After the flood of 97 they built this permanent dike and they made slots in the area shown to complete the dike with medal poles and concrete blocks. The next day the water had gone up and it was half way up this wall.

This is a little parking lot and a walking bridge to cross the river to get to the fair grounds. This is right off Minnesota Ave.

It is kind of hard to see in this picture but this is the rail road bridge to get across the river~ it is almost submerged in water. They had to shut down the trains for a few days. They also shut down the Main bridge here going in to Wahpeton and built a clay dike across it.

Future Police Officer

Tom's dad Ron "Bumpa" was a police officer for many years and gave Tom all his old police things. Jace thinks Bumpa's cop stuff is so cool and is always playing with it. There is a tote full of night sticks, hats, jackets, badges and it's all the "real" stuff! Our Future Police ManJace would take the night stick and hit it on his hand and say "well, well, well, what do we have here"
Getting all ready for Duty


Busted!!!!

We had to be very careful with the handcuffs because Tom didn't know where the keys were. They were only safe on Jace.

Baptism

Our niece Addison was Baptised in Devils Lake.

We were the Godparents for Addison Ann

Update

I know I am slacking in the blogging world! We have had a busy last few months. Well we survived the Flood of 2009 so far. There is so much water you can't even explain it without seeing it! I'm sure some of you that don't live near us have seen us on the news and even national news. It is real ugly here but if we do not get any more rain or snow we should be fine.

A few changes in our lives again. Chris got a job offer to work for a company in Wahpeton at Interstate Engineering. It was a tough decision because he loved his job with Moore Engineering in Fargo. He made a very good choice and took the job here in town, no more commuting, got a big pay raise and the benefits are better. He started last week and loves it!! They have been busy this last week surveying all the dikes in the twin towns to make sure they are at the appropriate level and called for sandbaggers if they weren't. He is getting some great experience with all of this flooding going on. I hope everyone is staying safe out there and your homes are being protected!

Jace

Our handsome little boy is so grown up!

Party

We had a 75th Birthday party for my grandma on March 15th. We went to church in Tintah and after church we had coffee and rolls for everyone. The family stayed around and we had a lunch and birthday cake too!

All of GG's helpers

These are all grandma's great grandkids we were missing Mason and there are 2 more on the way. This picture also includes Brooke and Alexa they are grandkids (the big grandkids did not want our picture taken)

After opening gifts all the kids played BINGO

Showing Wade how to play the game

Bodin and Jace playing BINGO (taking after their grandma's) :)

Jace got this Breckenridge Cowboys sweatshirt from Sara and Jesse for his birthday and he is very proud to wear it. When I put it on him that morning he told me he wanted his picture taken in it.





You might be a redneck if..........
Only in Minnesota you can ride a "bike" as Jace calls it in the winter with lots of snow on the ground.