Ambergrist ~ SUMMER 2004

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                       Summer of LOVE !!

Cruises........Europe.........Graduation.........Cass Lake...........Virgin Islands..........Chicago..........Brunch..........Baseball.......Seattle !!!!

 
BRUNCH AT THE CLUB..... John took some nice family portraits....

 

                                                

                               

                                                                 

                                                                                  Nick, Jane, Keith, Erin, Deming, Poo, Dad

 

 

 

JOE, MOLLY, JIM, and LAURA STEEFEL-MOORE DO EUROPE!!!

                                                       

                                   

 

DAD AND POO CRUISE

 

 Phil's Graduation, Stephen's confirmation, SF, and Cass Lake

                                                                   

            

           

              

Jill, Judd, Sherri, Sam, Joe, and Molly enjoy Cass Lake....

        

   

Jay, Hunter, Connor, Joan, and Jan whoop it up at Cass Lake.....during the coldest August on record!

            

  First off, Joe had to get the boat going for us.... Joe to the rescue!!!

                   

      

   

                       Digging a new biffy hole and.......................................................................putting it in place....... 3rd hole was a charm!!!

     

     Tubing (with cast!)..... our one nice day!!!

                                                                                                                                      A modern day miracle...  still not going to get a girl though......

       

   Jer and family go to the lake..... and other miscellaneous photos.....

          

 

                                                                             

Joan's Travels included the US Virgin Islands (with Heather Hensley).....

            

  

              

 And To Chicago (with co-worker/friend, Adam)

      

         

     

           Joan with the local Cubbies mascot, Ronnie, yah!

 Then to Seattle to see UW organ recipients, Randy (heart) and Ken (lungs)... and .....

       

      

    BUMBERSHOOT (music festival)......

  

                

   

      

     

       My friends from SD, Lisa and Adam came to bumber also.......

          

     Judd builds a frame for the bishop and gets psyched for 'Hawks football....

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From Mary...

I don't have any pictures but thought I would briefly catch you up on our summer.
Mikkel and Suzanne vacationed briefly on Pike's Peak. However, Jack, 11, had broken both of the bones in his lower arm, right near his wrist, and was in a splint temporarily and they went home early to get the cast. He was roller blading. Jack spent two weeks for GTE students at Colorado State and LOVED it! Paul commented that his room looked like a jail cell! How well we remember those dorm rooms. Paul has done lots of soccer...went to a soccer camp while Jack was off all sports for 10 weeks. School is starting and they love learning!
Andrew has been reading on his own for some time. He is finally 5 and in Kindergarten! Whew!
Suzanne is going to Minneapolis over Labor Day to visit her father, Paul. His Parkinson's seems to be moving swiftly now and he is so young!
Mikkel just newspapers away. He is much more involved in management and not writing as much.
Annie, John and Joseph are enjoying their new location in Ohio. It has certainly been  a dislocation in some ways. They have had some rough adjustments but with Opal's help I think all is well. There was a Joe in JoeJoe's class already, so now he is Joseph. Annie's project is huge. She still needs to hire five more people. John's company was sold and he had to interview with the new owners/ceo? I haven't heard but I hope he made it.
Tom and Maureen are on the go! They have been to the lake 5 times (me once) and Dillon once. Johanna loved seeing Mikkel and the boys (Suzanne had a previous commitment).
Mikkel et al drove up on Sunday and they swam and played.
Well, I have had a busy summer also! I spent a week in June with Mikkel's boys. I love to play games with them and hear them practice the piano.
I spent a couple of days in Santa Fe. My first time to Indian Market and they are doing so many new things! We had a fabulous brunch at the Grant St. Corner Inn. We went to the Santa Fe Chamber Festival and heard a 12 year old prodigy play MoZARTS PIANO QUARTET in G. It was extraordinary...watch for him. His name is Kit Armstrong and he is Asian. We collapsed into our beds at the El Rey Inn (a bargain place on Cerrillos Road). Then On Monday we went to the Russian exhibit at the New Mexico Museum. Many personal items,lletters, pictures had never been  shown before of Nicholas and Alexandra, the last czar and the last Romanov's. We lunched a t a new cafe called Paris. All had delicious food but me.  Dried up old chicken again!
We then toured a gallery owned by a friend and investigated an absolutely charmin g B&B called The Inn of the Five Graces. Of course, it is an old adobe strucure redone. We changed our clothes and headed up to the Opera Ranch where we had a lovely dinner and lecture. The Opera starts early this time of year. At 8 PM the magic began. Bellini's "La Sommnabula" was  delighlful from the fist note. The coloratura is the biggest star in France. A tiny little person with a big voice. At 11 PM we were coming down the hill to home after a splendid getaway!
The Balloon Fiesta starts the first weekend in October. Annie, John and JoeJoe will be here for that. The second and last weekend my friends from our Navy assignment at Quonset Point Rhode Island are coming. We all lived on this old farm on the old Post Road, Highway One in 1954! There are two couples and one widow. We will have a ball no matter if the balloons are able to fly or not!
I hope everyone has had a good summer.

 

  

         

 

             

                Ann on her new Christmas scooter!!!!

 

 

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