The girls had their yearly check ups, and here are their stats...
Piper
44" tall = 97% for her age group
39lbs = 45% for her age group
Lucy
39" tall = 55% for her age group
32lbs = 24% for her age group
The little ladies also had shots at this visit - ouch!
They were SO brave.
Piper insisted on sitting with the nurse by herself. When the shots were done and the nurse left the room, she looked up at me with tearful eyes and said "Boy, I sure didn't think those shots were going to hurt that much!".
We went to Dairy Queen for ice cream cones and all was well again!
We're the Stern Family - Trent, Angella, Piper and Lucille. These are our stories..
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
St. Paddy's Day in Crosslake
Once a year Trent and I let our hair down and go away on an Adults Only weekend!
It has become tradition to go up nort der to Crosslake for the grand St. Patrick's Day Parade.
Our first parade experience happened by accident. In the Spring of 2003 Trent and I spent a weekend in Crosslake with our dear friends Steve and Aleen. It was an unusually warm March morning and Steve had read in the local paper that Crosslake was having their Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in the afternoon.
We thought - why not - it's warm - we'll get a bite to eat - couple pints of Guinness - Let's go! We found some green Mardi Gras shirts from back in the day, loaded up a few lawn chairs and headed into town. We settled on a nice "island" on the curb across from Zorbaz. I say "island" because it was a patch of grass surrounded by snow and was just big enough to set up four lawn chairs.
Ah - it was almost 70 degrees in the middle of March and there we sat with a Guinness in our hands and sunshine on our faces! It was fabulous!
Over the years the gathering has expanded from the four of us, to a fun group of about twenty five crazy friends! We love to get dressed up and see who can catch the most goodies tossed from the floats, aka Street Candy. To increase our quantity of Street Candy, Trent and Steve have invented the Candy Catcher. It is made from a 10 foot rod with a fishing net attached at the end. The Catcher is a crowd pleaser and we have been in local paper a few times!
It has become tradition to go up nort der to Crosslake for the grand St. Patrick's Day Parade.
Our first parade experience happened by accident. In the Spring of 2003 Trent and I spent a weekend in Crosslake with our dear friends Steve and Aleen. It was an unusually warm March morning and Steve had read in the local paper that Crosslake was having their Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in the afternoon.
We thought - why not - it's warm - we'll get a bite to eat - couple pints of Guinness - Let's go! We found some green Mardi Gras shirts from back in the day, loaded up a few lawn chairs and headed into town. We settled on a nice "island" on the curb across from Zorbaz. I say "island" because it was a patch of grass surrounded by snow and was just big enough to set up four lawn chairs.
Ah - it was almost 70 degrees in the middle of March and there we sat with a Guinness in our hands and sunshine on our faces! It was fabulous!
Over the years the gathering has expanded from the four of us, to a fun group of about twenty five crazy friends! We love to get dressed up and see who can catch the most goodies tossed from the floats, aka Street Candy. To increase our quantity of Street Candy, Trent and Steve have invented the Candy Catcher. It is made from a 10 foot rod with a fishing net attached at the end. The Catcher is a crowd pleaser and we have been in local paper a few times!
Monday, March 16, 2009
Lucy's 4th Birthday Party
Lucille and 8 friends ran wild at an Open Gymnasium Birthday Party at our Community Center!
They played relay games, parachute games, hula hoop, basketball and lots lots more.
Kids and parents were exhausted by the end of the day!
They played relay games, parachute games, hula hoop, basketball and lots lots more.
Kids and parents were exhausted by the end of the day!
Monday, March 2, 2009
Happy 40th Birthday Mr. Stern!
Trent Arlan Stern
March 2, 1969
Albert Lea Navy Hospital Minnesota
Let's take a trip back to 1969 shall we...
NOTABLE:
• Popular songs:“Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In,” Fifth Dimension;
“Sugar, Sugar,” the Archies; “In the Year 2525,” Zager & Evans;“Get Back”
The Beatles.
• “The Saturday Evening Post” stops publication.
• Mohammar Gadhafi seizes power in a Libyan coup.
• Television show debuts: “The Brady Bunch,”“Love,American Style,”
“Marcus Welby, M.D.,”“Room 222.”
• Popular movies:“They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?,”“Easy Rider,”
“True Grit,”“Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.”
COST OF LIVING:
• The cost of first class postage is 6¢.
• Average Cost New Car $3,270.00
• Average Income per year $8,550.00
• The average cost of a gallon of gasoline is 34¢.
• Average Cost of new house $15,550.00
• Average Income per year $8,550.00
SPORTS:
• Major League baseball introduces divisional playoffs during its
100th year anniversary.
• The New York Mets, once the worst team in baseball, win the
World Series in five games over the Baltimore Orioles.
• In Superbowl III, the underdog New York Jets topple the
Baltimore Colts, 16-7.
• UCLA wins the NCAA basketball title by defeating Purdue, 97-92.
HEADLINES:
• On July 20, Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to set foot on the moon.
• Richard M. Nixon is inaugurated as the 37th U. S. President.
• Senator Edward Kennedy is involved in an auto accident at Chappaquiddick
(Martha’s Vineyard, MA) in which Mary Jo Kopechne is killed.
• Charles Manson is arrested for the murder of Sharon Tate and
four others in Hollywood.
• James Earl Ray is sentenced to 99 years for the murder of
Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Sirhan Sirhan is sentenced to death for killing Robert F. Kennedy.
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