Madison Lou Morey

I told you I would get you all some pictures. They brought her home on sunday morning and everyone is doing fine. The whole gang got to see her at the hospital on saturday so the room got to be a little crowded and noisy, Welcome to the family Madison. If she can handle that noise she will be fine.

Everyone take care! Love Papa

The Family Is Growing

It's a GIRL. She was 7lbs 1oz. and Mike says she is a hairy little monkey. I think the name is Madison Lou but I may be wrong on the spelling. Lindsey is doing fine. We'll have pictures soon.

--Posted by ?

Kynnedi's Baptism

Hey Everyone,

Kynnedi was baptized on August 16th. Sorry it has taken me a bit to get these pictures posted. JJ's sister and Jon were her Godparents. The mass was wonderful and we were lucky enough to have the priest who married us, also baptize her. She did wonderfully and smiled at everyone in church the whole time. :)

Love,
Kelli

Golf on Friday

just checking back in to see who all wants to golf friday in Fargo. i will be calling monday or tuesday for tee times, so let me know if you would like to play. i think we will be playing at the meadows in morehead.

todd

To Todd...

From Patti:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l38blGqVeHc#watch-main-area

TRACI LATE AS USUAL

My RSVP is in the mail, late, there will be 6 of us.

Can't wait to see everyone.

Patti

Wedding news!!!

Hello everyone! Sorry it has taken me so long to get this posted. Apparently I have lost my timely manners and have taken on Tori's procrastinating!! The wedding is quickly approaching and I really wanted to get some important information out to all of you. The wedding is set for Saturday, August 22nd at 4pm at Gooseberry Park in Moorhead. There is a block of rooms set aside at the Howard Johnson in downtown Fargo. Please try to make reservations if you need to. The wedding block under Fisher/Barnum will be released the first weekend in August. So if you need rooms, please make them as soon as possible. The number is 701.232.8850 and the address is 301 3rd Ave N Fargo.

Also, if you have not talked to my mom, we are planning to reserve the banquet room at the Howard Johnson for friday night. There will be food and a bar available so we can all hang out together without worrying about getting anyone a babysitter (for all of you who decided to have kids before my wedding!!). The reception on Saturday night is going to be at the Civic Center at 8:30pm, which is just across the street from the hotel.

The Park is very easy to get to. Here are some directions:

Head east out of the Howard Johnson Parking lot toward 2nd Street North
Turn right at 2nd street North (heading south)
Turn left at Main St/US-10 going into Minnesota
Turn right at 4th St South (heading south). At 1st Ave S this will turn into a One-way South
Turn right at 22nd Ave South. The road will dead end and there will be a sign.

Note: On the way back to the hotel turn left on 5th St which is a One-way going North.
If you need a map, just use google maps and enter the Howard Johnson and Gooseberry Mound Park.

Sorry this took me so long to get on here...but you all know what its like to plan a wedding!! I hope everyone can make it and we will see you all soon.

Love, Traci and Tori

Cabin gathering

Hi everyone,
I thought I should post a few of the pictures from the Morey's visit to the cabin. Based on the smiles I think it is safe to say everyone had a good time! A video will be coming soon once we figure out how to get it from the camera to the computer and then on to here:) Stay tuned!

We can't wait to see everyone in August!

Question?

Frank's mom was sent this aerial shot of Dickinson. She is wondering where this is.

Thanks
Patti

Patti,

The photographer is right above the Heart River and aiming his/her camera southeasterly. This cul-de-sac is on the south bank of the river between Hwy. 22 and State Ave., and it's just north of Spruce St. Here's a map (you can zoom in and out and slide side to side or up and down):



View Larger Map

--Kevin

Summer Time Photos

Hi Everyone!

I am bummed to admit that this is the last week of my 12 week maternity leave. I know that life will get a bit more hectic once I return to work so I have been trying to get lots of little stuff done this week. With that being said I wanted to share a few new pictures of Kynnedi. She is quickly getting used to living at Grandma's and getting spoiled rotten. :) We hope everyone is having a great summer!

Love,

Kelli

New Pics

Hello everyone, just thought i would post some new pictures of Trae. We should have some more in a few days being he will be having is 2nd B-Day party this Saturday. He is still a very active and very fun little man. We are starting to become VERY independent and learning how to throw some great tantrums. Trae still has a severe obsession with horses and will be having a 'horse' themed party this weekend. He got to ride a couple horses over the forth of july and thought that was pretty neat. Trista is now done with graduate school and has had the summer off if you can call it that. Due to some circumstances at daycare, Trae has had to be at home until he turns 2 so some days i think she wants to pull her hair out. She does enjoy it though but it will be nice when she can at least take him to daycare a couple days during the week. I have been busy with work and now with the clean-up of the tornado. Overall just another busy summer which im sure everyone else is familiar with. We can't wait to see you all in August.

Todd



Trae thinks he's a little too cool for his own good

Braved up enough to hold one of the farm cats at Trista's parents farm

He got to go to his first rodeo and as you can see, i don't think he blinked very often

Playing with toys at his Grandpa and Grandma Riehl's

Also got to go to his first carnival, the carousel is his favorite by far

When we were moving Tina out of her house to her new one, Trae thought he was moving too

He got to ride Babe the Blue Ox at Storybook Land in Aberdeen

Still smiling even though its bed time

Tornado hits south Dickinson

As most of you have probably aleady heard, south Dickinson was hit by a tornado on wednesday night. they have said that the winds were up to 150 mph which put the twister at a level of 3. There is extensive damage to a few homes and the paper has stated that over 20 homes have already been declared uninhabitable. The storm hit right by the river and looks like it started by the softball diamonds and then split into two different tornadoes. It was reported that no one was killed and only a few were treated and released. Here are a few of the pictures that i got but there are many more out there. you can also go to:

www.kfyrtv.com
or
www.thedickinsonpress.com


A light pole layed over just across the street from consolidated

A home on the east side of highway 22

Another home in the same area

A garage in the same area, all of the sides are blow out and the roof is laying on the cars

South side softball diamonds. That tree row of cottonwoods used to be full and lush. You could not see through those trees before the storm.

There is actually a pick up underneath that camper

Brian Urbanec, who i work with, this is his house

This is a house directly across the street from Brian's

July 4th in NC

Hello! Hope everyone had a great fourth. We went to visit some friends and Davis got his first dip in a swimming pool.

See you all soon!

Love,

Cassie

Smith Family Vacation

Hello everyone,
I have been meaning to get these pictures from our vacation on the blog for some time and am finally getting to it -- better late than never:) Our family took a vacation the first weekend in June to South Dakota. We rented a cabin on the edge of Rapid City and took in some sites. Dad, Mom, Brian, the boys, and I arrived on Thursday afternoon. Lisa and her family joined us Thursday evening. Lee, Shantelle, and Landon rolled in Friday morning. We had a great time, although the weather was not so great. Just thought I would share a few pictures!

Here we all are at Mt. Rushmore! What a bunch:)

I got these next three pictures out of order -- oh well!

All Kaden wanted to do was to go fishing. So, after we checked into the cabin, we headed down to the lake so he could throw his pole in. He thought it was great! (He did not catch any fish, but told anyone who asked him that he caught 2 -- he definately has tall tale fishing down!! However, he does not have patience to keep it in very long or to take help from anyone else. Needless to say, I think the fishing was a test to Grandpa's patience and learning to deal with a 2 year old!!??

Kaden with his tacklebox.

Off to the lake!!

Kyle reading to Emily at the cabin.

Kyle and Kaden enjoying some breakfast before we go see some sites!

Landon feeding the geese down by the lake.

Kaden and Kyle riding the train at Storybook Land.

Regan, Payton, Braxton, Landon, Lee, and Shantelle all suited up for a good game of paintball:)

Here we are playing a game of minature golf under black lights.

Little Emily -- what a doll!

On Sunday before we all went our separate ways, we ventured to Chuckie Cheese. Here are Payton and Kyle playing some games.

Jordan and Emily chillin' with Chuckie!

And here is Kaden totally worn out from vacation -- he was out before we even got on the interstate and him and Jordan slept the whole way home:)

We hope everyone is doing well. Looking forward to seeing everyone in August -- it will be here before we know it!

All our love, Laura