Kenny

Kenny is the dad of our family. He works at United Health Care and does lots of traveling. He likes to spend time with his family on vactions. One of the most recent family trips he has been on was up north with Ben. It was extremely windy at the camp and they had to spend a night holding the tents up.

Wendy

Wendy is our mom. She does many things including coaching basketball, Site Council at Brooklyn Junior High, teaches preschool, volunteers at Woodland Elementary School, and raises 6 kids. She is also a great cook and makes awesome cookies during Christmastime. She also enjoys playing outside with her kids and working in vegtable gardens and flower gardens. She also loves music and the 4 oldest kids play piano.

Sara

Sara is 15 years old and is in 10th grade. Her birthday is on April 12th. She runs Cross Country in the fall and does track in the spring. She also runs in the winter with some of her friends. Sara also plays basketball for her church and last year they were the champions.

In the summer between 8th and 9th grade Sara went to Africa and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro with her dad. Mt Kilimanjaro is 19,340 feet tall. Then the went on a safari and got some great pictures.

Ben

Ben is 13 years old and is in 8th grade. His birthday is Febuary 16th. He is currently involved in Basketball. He just recently he scored the winning point in his community league. Ben also plays basketball with the boys from church. He also plays soccer and runs Cross Country in the fall and does Track in the spring.

Ben also enjoys skiing and snowboarding with his family in the Rocky Mountains. Last time he went snowboarding Ben broke his arm and could not snowboard for the rest of the trip.

Rebekah

Rebekah is 12 years old and is in 6th grade. Her birthday is October 25th. Rebekah also plays basketball. Although her team is not having a winning season, Rebekah is having fun with her mom, the assisant coach. Rebekah plays soccer in every season execpt for the winter basketball season. Last fall her traveling team, the Kickers, played in a tournament in Duluth. Several of her family members went to cheer her on.

Rebekah is also very good at math. She is on a team called MathMasters. The team meets on Thursdays to practice. Last year her team got into the top 8 of their district. Not bad for their first year. Rebekah is also in CML, a program at school for students who are good at math. She recently got a 6 on her test.(6 is the highest score you can recieve on a CML test.)

Joey

Joey is 9 years old and is in 4th grade. His birthday is August 18th. Just like his older siblings Joey plays soccer and basketball. Because Joey is in 4th grade he has to do skill games in the first half of his basketball season. Joey likes the actual games better than the skills. But he also enjoys going on short runs with Sara.

Joey loves to read. If he is not playing on the computer with Ben then he is reading. Joey likes reading all kinds of books. He has read both books in the Eragon series and can't wait for the 3rd book. Right now he is reading Lord of the Rings. He wants to get the school record in AR points. AR is a test that you take after finishing a book. You get more points for the more difficult books. Joey also likes to read information books. He is always asking why and how things work.

Jennie

Jennie is 4 years old and is in preschool. Her birthday is March 11. Jennie enjoys going to preschool and "high school preschool". (The preschool is located at a high school.) She also loves to play dress up with her friends. Jennie also loves books even though she cannot quiet read. However, Jennie can spell her family members' names and she can spell "Welcome".

Xander

Alexander (Xander) is 1 year old. His birthday is December 10th. Xander has just begun to walk. He likes to play with cars and balls. He recognizes all of the family members and expecially loves his dad. He also can say other things like up, down, ball, apple, banana, and outside just to name a few. Xander loves to play outside in the snow.