Father Ryan Moravitz

Father Ryan Moravitz was ordained in Duluth on Friday, June 20th. PJ and Ellie drove up for the ceremony. Over 500 people attended, busses arrived from Ely, Babbitt, and Brainard. Ryan wore vestments that were worn by the Pope on the final day of the World Youth Rally held in Denver a few years back. About fifty priests were at the ceremony, one from Rome and one from Belgium. The following morning a Thanksgiving ceremony was held in Ely, followed by lunch and a polka dance. It was truly something to see! Ryan is probably the best thing that has happened to the Catholic Church since Shelly changed catholic.

Misc. Pictures

Hey everyone! How's your summer going? I thought I'd put up a couple pictures to show you. The first one is from when Alison, Mark, and my parents spent the night at our house on their way to Rhode Island and Carl's graduation. The second picture is from the few days that Todd and I spent at the beach with his family last week.

Everything is going great around here. It's been really busy! We're getting closer to being done unpacking, and we almost have everything ready for the baby. Childbirth classes start next week! Talk to you all soon!

Hannah

California Fun in the Sun

California Girls

April, Shelly and 14 year old Zak took a typical Sullivan Trip and ended up in Los Angeles for 30 hours. Here's Martha and April showing their 'class' in the back of our rented convertible. Martha and Joel are absolutely EXCELLENT hosts and we give their place a ***** (5 star) rating. Highlights had to be the Santa Monica Beach and visiting with Martha and Joel.

April tried her new skills at navigation (we give her a ***). Spent 20 minutes in LA Rush Hour traffic heading in the wrong direction! Corrected by Martha who realized the sun set in the WEST and that her house is EAST (another example of high quality home schooling).

Here's the newlyweds and Zak baking in the sun. Perfect weather, great food, wonderful conversation. It was just the perfect trip!

Our Thanks to Martha and Joel! We highly recommend you all visit them soon! I know we're planning on going back at least once a month. (ok, maybe twice a year). We still have a few more nieces to visit. (you can take that as a warning).

Update on My Life

It's been a long time since I've posted on the Krumwiede blog, and since I'm the administrator, I guess I shouldn't let that happen. I didn't even make it possible for everyone to make fun of each other a few months ago, since hardly anyone posted before the deadline. But, I thought that I'd post a little update on what's happening in my life.

I'm spending the spring/most of the summer in Souderton, Pennsylvania. As you may recall, Hannah spent the summer here two years ago, and Martha did last year. The Joni and Friends Greater Philadelphia office is located here. This office, along with the Lancaster, PA office, holds several weeks of family retreats for families affected by disabilities in the summer. Right now, I am doing a lot of office work and organization (mostly working with the online registration system, making sure all of the volunteers are registered). As we get closer to retreats starting, I will get to play with Power Points, nametags, and lots of other fun stuff.

I volunteer there Monday through Friday, and then I spend the weekends with a family I have known from camp for several years. They have two older girls (ages fifteen and twelve) and twin eight-year-old girls with disabilities. I enjoy my time with them, even though it is tiring. It's great to be here, though, and I'm discovering the things I need to keep from being lonely or sad--mainly time to work out at the YMCA and good food.

I am looking foward to some "vacations" later on this month. Memorial Day weekend I am going to Lancaster, PA to visit another family from camp. The following weekend, I am going on a young adult retreat with the church I have been attending. After camp (which ends on the Fourth of July), I will be going home. I have a camping trip planned then with some friends, which I am really looking foward to. In August, I attend one more week of family retreats before returning to Souderton. The twins are having knee surgery, so I will be here for a few weeks helping them before flying down to San Antonio to be with Sebastian when Micah and Emma have their baby.

So, that's my summer. I'm learning all sorts of things, enjoying this chance to draw closer to God, and having a rich and meaningful time of life.


Me working in my office Jerry and Joan, the couple that I am living and working with
The coffee shop at the church that I go to on Wedesday nights.
Candace and Ciara, the twins
Candace and I

My First Post Is To Say "Happy Birthday"

Well, on this auspicious occasion of my first post to the Krumwiede family blog, I would like to say Happy Birthday to my dear sister Wendy. I hope you do something fun today! For those of you whose minds don't take you there, this is also the birthday of Grandma Behrens. I think she would be about 110 by now. She was a great grandma, wasn't she? How nice of mother to have a child on her mother's birthday. This is also May Day. Did any of you put flowers in a cone on your neighbor's doorstep? I recently found directions for how to wind a May Day pole. I wish we were together because I would make you all do it. It requires 20 participants. I only need to add a husband for Alice and four more grandchildren before I can force my family to do it. Anyway, thank you Wendy for you help to post.

"Happy Birthday to you....Happy Birthday to you.....Happy Birthday dear Wendy....Happy Birthday to you."

Tammy

Comments

After owning my computer for 8 months I finally figured out how to find the Krumwiede Family Blog. It has taken me another week to learn how to put a comment on the Blog. So, I won't go back and add my comments to everything that I have missed commenting on in the past except to say that the picture of IdaMae playing bocce ball was adorable. Also, I am very impressed with the newest blog addition, Olivia Mae. She is just captivating! What a beautiful little girl! However, I think she may have intimidated Jake and Sandy since they haven't posted a picture of their new baby even though she was born almost a week ago. But maybe they're just letting Olivia have her day in the sun before they outshine her.(If that's even possible!) Or perhaps they're just too busy taking care of their new arrival to worry about Family Blogs and the fact that some of us don't even know her name yet. I'm sure we will eventually get to see her. No offense, Jake and Sandy! I hope you are enjoying parenthood and it only gets better. God bless your family! -Wendy

Olivia Mae McLeod ... Born Feb. 23, 2008 ... 6 lbs. 10 oz. ... 18 1/2 in. long