Saturday afternoon we headed up to Cold Spring to honor and celebrate the life of Dave Griffin. Dave was a very good family friend to the Froehle's--he is Ben's dad. He lived across the road from Rich and Eileen and Rich played football with Dave, worked with him at the Children's Home, shared adventures together with their sons and helped each other build their houses and work on the many projects they did together.
He was a very smart and talented man and he sold many foods he raised to high end restaurants in Minnesota. Bishop particularly enjoyed visiting Dave and watching his ducks run around! He passed away in January and we miss him dearly.
The family held an open house at Dave's place and it was very nice. It was raining when we got there, so everyone was crammed inside the garage, but the rain cleared away, the sun came out and it ended up being a very nice celebration. The kids had a blast looking for frogs and salamanders with the other kids!
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| Bishop and a tiny frog |
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| Luke sharing a memory of Dave |
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| The Salamander swimming in the baby pool |
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| Nora all smiles, swinging! |
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| Rich and Dave! |
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| Rich and Eileen! |
Nora wore a dress and since she's not used to wearing dresses all that often she enjoyed the freedom of being able to take it off! She ran around like a free-spirited girl......and everyone just smiled! She was not going to let anyone help her put it back on, she was happiest when her dress was a skirt! :)
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| Luke and Ben! |
As I mentioned Bishop had such a great time catching frogs. He found a couple glasses he would fill with water and transfer the frog back and forth from the 2 cups. At one point I caught him drinking the frog water!! He was quite embarrassed that I called him out in front of everyone! ;)
Sunday morning the frog hunt continued at Grandma and Grandpa's (or as Nora calls them, Grandma and the other Grandma)! We found lots of small frogs, a tree frog and even a bigger frog! Grandma even found a frog in the mailbox! It was fun letting the kids roam outside and play-they had a blast!
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| Nora loved holding the frogs too! |
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| She gets SO excited to see Uncle Jake! |
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| Helping the other Grandma feed the birds |
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| Grandpa and his Grandkids! |
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| Grandma and her girl! |
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| The frog from the mailbox |
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| Riding the Horsey! |
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| Working out on the Elliptical |
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Hugs for Grandma!
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It was a nice get together for Dave and a very fun weekend at Grandma and Grandpa's!
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