COMPUTER SEMINAR

We arrived in Winterset on Sunday in plenty of time for the sandwich/salad potluck and first get together of this years computer seminar students. We've just spent the last four days exercising our grey matter, becoming more proficient in computer skills. Now we need to retain what we've learned. Sandy and Gene Teggatz were wonderful as usual and very, very patient. We had a good time! Here's Sandy!



Gene standing behind, ready to give hands on help.

Show and tell.

Our celebration dinner downtown.

It was a good seminar with excellent teachers, nice people, and lots of fun.

SPORTS IN OMAHA

We just spent some time in Omaha at the grandchildrens ballgames. There seemed to be some action photos-although I missed getting the LaCrosse fight on film. I knew enough not to take pictures of the boys in the penalty box-that wouldn't be cool! Here's Joe pitching until he ran out of steam.

Dan is waiting for trouble-#9.

The coach in action-better known as our son Russ.

Jenna on the volleyball court.

Joe's doing warmup exercises with Jenna and her team.

MORE REUNION

We were lucky to find Julie in Albuquerque last year and spent a day with her. She was one of the gals who hadn't seen anyone since graduation. She was one of my bridesmaids-Sharon was another, but we lost her years ago. We missed her and Pat, who recently passed away. Julie is in black.

We were all thrilled to have Sr. Carol, formally Sr. Wendolyn, with us. She was a joy as a member of our class, and she hasn't changed!

There was no shortage of funny stories or laughter.

Our award winner is the one with the corsage.

The next day, twelve of us got together for lunch, and it was still fun.

It was amazing to see how we had grown older and maybe wiser, but basically we were the same. May good health and happiness continue for all of us!

45TH NURSES REUNION

Last weekend I was lucky to be able to attend my nurses reunion in Dubuque. We trained at Mercy School of Nursing for 3 years, all year long, and bonded for life! There were 21 out of the remaining 34 gathered together in a mutual admiration society-with fantastic memories, shared friendship, and stories of our accomplishments. There were 170 at the banquet, and we were proud to have Mary Edith win the award for nurse of the year. It was probably a surprise that someone from our so called "wild class"could be so honored. Sister Mary Rose would never believe how successful we've been! Thanks to Miss Tully we turned out to be really good nurses! We seemed to have stayed strong through many tradgedies, but have also had many blessings! Hopefully, we'll all be together for our 50th!

A group of us were there early and we went up to the Archive room at the hospital.

Here we're looking at newspaper clippings of our class.

Mary Jo, Marilyn and Betty looking at our graduation pictures.

A long time has passed since we wore the cape, hat and white gloves!

BUSY WEEK

Time sure does fly when you're having fun! Saturday was really busy, and cold, and wet! We started by going to Jenna's two sets of volleyball games which they won-and it was warm! Then off to the LaCrosse game-we had already missed the first one-just can't be in two places at once. Then there was a short time before Joe's baseball game, which was followed by Mexican food. On Sunday after church, I went shopping with Carrie, Jake and Jenna, and Don stayed home with the other guys. (Jenna and I had already been to the scrapbook store one evening.) The kids made us a wonderful dinner and we said our goodbyes. Monday we had a slow start, but got to Grinnell without difficulty. The fields were really wet along the way and the rivers and streams were out of their banks around Des Moines-all that rain from Saturday. We had dinner with Wilsons and Fitzgeralds and then went to Wilsons to talk. Tuesday Don got his haircut and I went to the bakery to see Suzi and Bill. We went to Heidi's for the evening and took Lucas his birthday gifts. He's also added some inches. He had basketball practice the night before and now he's working on his golf game. We drove to Dubuque yesterday and went to see Don's mother. She sure looks good for a ninety year old! On to Teresa's beauty shop for a haircut. Then in order to fuel our reputations-we visited the new Diamond Jo Casino-very nice! Then, because we needed to do research for our AZ get together this summer, we moved on to the redecorated dog track. They now call it the Mystique Casino. I won at both places. Todays full of errands and tomorrows my reunion-more fun!

UPDATE FROM OMAHA

Well, we made it to Omaha on Tuesday in time to go to Joe's baseball game. It was interesting. He plays second base, but seemed to have a place dug out enough for a comfortable stance. Russ thought he was digging a hole to roast a pig! He needs some help with his hitting skills , but made a couple good defensive plays. He's also grown several inches taller since November! On Wednesday, we went to Jenna's track meet where she ran hurdles, 100 yard dash and the long jump. She had a real nice jump and was third in the other two. Not too bad for her first attempt. She also grew, got contacts and was proof reading her paper for Junior National Honor Society. Yesterday, we got to see Jake and Dan play LaCrosse for the new high school team, coached by Russ. The boys each scored two goals, Jake only had one penalty, and they won 9-7. It was a good battle, and everyone was happy. Carrie was a nervous wreck-she obviously knew more than one of the refs. She stays on the opposite side of the field from Russ, because she can't help herself from "helping Russ coach". Jake grew a bit more and is now 16-where did the time go? Dan had his hair cut and is back to looking like our cute grandson again. When we left, he was afraid he'd never grow again, but I'm happy to report, he's now about 4-5 inches taller! Brian hasn't started playing LaCrosse yet, so we'll see him in May. It's his turn to go through the "I haven't grown yet" stage, but, at 12, he's got time. Today we're going there for dinner and tomorrow we have a whole day full of sports. We plan on heading to Grinnell for Monday and Tuesday, then to Dubuque on Wednesday. More fun ahead!

PETRIFIED WOOD

We stayed at a campground near a petrified forest and they had some samples of petrified logs by the office. We got in a little late and it was rather cold, so we skipped the forest this time. Here are a couple examples.