A Touch of Country with Natalie: Friends and Family

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Monday, July 13, 2009

summer fun

It's Mosiac Monday...Join us the Little Red House

Crystal Lake Camping Trip

Crystal Lake, Iowa
World's Largest Bullhead!

Anna freezing after getting out of the water.

Photo 1: Chase, Tjaden & Anna building a pirate fort on the beach.

Photo 2: Crystal Lake at dusk...isn't it peaceful and pretty?

Photo 3: Anna getting ready to watch the fireworks.

Tjaden, age 9
Tjaden suffered from heat exhaustion 2 weeks ago. He passed out on the walking across the street of all places!

Luckily my nephew was nearby and scooped him up quickly and brought him to me. Tjaden had been at the pool for 2 long HOT days and got dehydrated.

Took him to the doctor, actually carried him as he was so weak. Dr. Osgood did some blood and lab work and found out he was severely dehydrated and fighting a virus. They hooked him up to a I.V. and started fluids right there in the doctor's office...I didn't know they did that there...thought you had to go to a hospital.

After a bag of fluids and rest, he was released with strict orders to REST, DRINK & NO PLAY for a few days!

I guess now we have to watch him carefully around the heat as he can easily get it again. Once you get heat exhaustion, it easily comes back.

He had a nasty road burn on his shoulder but I didn't get photos of that. Poor little guy!

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Japanese Steakhouse

Zach in the chef hat at his FAVORITE restaurant, TOKYO Japanese Steakhouse in Waterloo, Iowa. We took him there for his 16th Birthday.

He ordered Steak & Shrimp...yummy!

The chef making a smiley face.

Smiley face on fire! Whoa...what a scorcher!

Chopping our veggies and making an onion Volcano, which he lit on fire.

Zach enjoying his steak, shrimp, rice, noodles, veggies, lettuce salad, and delicious soup....he was STUFFED but cleaned his entire plate...savoring every last bite. Yes that's Tjaden in the background with his mouth full of food...sorry!

Cost for a meal for 4=$78.00 plus tip
Cost for such a fabulous, caring, and handsome son=PRICELESS

Tablescape Thursday 16th Birthday for Zach

Zach turned 16 on the 16th! A GOLDEN birthday!
Here is a photo of the car he received...a 2004 Pontiac Grand Prix.
The bakery scanned it in and printed it on an edible overlay on the cake.

The table top was dressed in road signs, cars, trucks, and license plates.

The kids loved the soda pop in glass bottles....a novelty these days.
Root beer, Diet Root Beer, Orange Crush, and Grape Crush.
Peanuts and cashews were placed in the box of the pickup truck.

Another truck was filled with Laffy Taffy. I found this old stop sign at an antiques store.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Pheasants

Sorry for blurry photo. This is a picture of inside the farrowing house where my Brian has been raising pheasants.

Zach, Anna & Tjaden getting ready to do pheasant chores. See the pretty pheasant along the wall. You have to be careful because they fly at you sometimes freaking you out!!

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Happy Mother's Day

My mom, Sandy on the left and me on the right.

Happy Mother's Day Mom!
I Love You!

Monday, May 4, 2009

What a cutie!

This is my son Tjaden. I love his wild and adventurous
spirit but yet he has such a tender side to him.

He is kicking it back at the beach looking all relaxed and casual.

I love you Tjaden!

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Our Barn Quilt

Here is a picture of our corncrib on the family farm.

My husband and his brothers & sister grew up on this farm.

The corncrib is visible on the north side of Highway 20, about two miles west of the Grundy Center exit.

The farm has been in the Meester family since 1920 and the corncrib has been there since 1963. The quilt pattern displayed here is called "weathervane"

and is a double-block for easier viewing from the highway.

Taking in some art

On April 1, Cheryl Osterhaus and I took
Anna & Shakira to the Waterloo Center for the Arts Youth Pavillion
It features various artists and themes.
They had a blast playing in the various rooms.

Anna especially loved milking the cow. It felt very real but the cow milked out water.

Notice the ART photo. The artist created a face out of old junk.

Meester Family Picnic Summer 2008

Mr & Mrs Felix Grundy

This is a family photo of us back in the Summer of 2001.
We were honored to be asked to be
Mr. & Mrs. Felix Grundy & Family
for the town's annual Felix Grundy Festival.

We rode in horse & buggy in the town's parade.
Our photo was taken in the Herbert Hoover School House in Grundy Center.