Happy Birthday Grandpa (Papa) Loftus

Happy 70th Birthday, Grandpa!

It wasn't a very exciting day -- Brian stopped by to say Hi,

and Don tried out his new electric barbecue grill.

WOW!



Nathaniel's 7th Birthday Party

Nathaniel's birthday weekend started out with an Easter Egg Hunt

at Spooner Golf Course. He had a great time and collected lots of Easter eggs!

We rushed home from the Easter Egg Hunt so that we could

have what was the first ever, in the history of the world (I'm pretty sure),

Skype Birthday Party!

Aunt Jeni and Uncle Kris,

and Stian and Silje joined us via the computer

to help celebrate. We all sang Happy Birthday to Nathaniel,

and Stian joined us for birthday cake (he had his own chocolate cupcake)

and they were able to watch Stian open their gift to him which was a

Pirate Shirt they brought back from the island of Grand Turk during their last cruise.

Stian an Nataniel both wore their Grand Turk Pirate Shirts

for the party. Nathaniel also got a great night light that projects the planets onto the walls

special from Stian! We tried it here and Nathaniel loved it.

Here he is opening a gift from Daddy with all kinds of great science experiments in it.

Nathaniel loves science and will really enjoy this.

And from Papa and Grandma and Daddy

he got a very special remote control race car!

We ended the day with dinner at our very special Pizza Bar

called "What The Heck"

And then came home and played with some of the gifts.

Sunday morning we went to brunch at McKenzie Landing.

Another of Nathaniel's favorite restaurants in Wisconsin.

Then spent the afternoon playing outside with the new car, making new treasure maps, playin baseball, and enjoying a nice warm sunny spring daya t the lake.

I know we all enjoyed Nathaniel's 7th birthday weekend

very much!!!!

Battlground, March 2012

We spent some time with Jeni & Kris and the kids

getting some projects done around the house --

but we managed to spend some time

enjoying the children as well.

Here is Stian showing off his Pirate Shirt from the cruise they just went on.
And here is Stian being a 4-year-old!

Kris, Silje and Stian Skype with Nathaniel!

Silje and Stian play trucks

Here is our Silje just being beautiful!

And Stian "helping" Daddy

And Silje being beautiful again!!

Mommy and the children reading

And what could be more fun than a little boy and a BIG pile of mulch!!

Kris doing a little toucing up on the paint job

And the fireplace all stocked with wood from Wisconsin

And, last but not least, Stian shows off on his Plazma bike.