Our Wisconsin Trip - May 2009

We just returned from a wonderful vacation with

grandma and grandpa Przybyla. It was so nice to

spend a week with them.........just hope we didn't

wear them out and wish we could do it again......we

will forever cherish our memories of this great trip.

They were real troopers all the way!

There is no way I can post all of the fun pictures or tell

you everything we did........but here is a small portion of

our Wisconsin Trip!

Dody, Darlene and Maxine

We all agree on one thing about this fun outing.........and

that is that the best part was spending time with our

newly found "Wisconsin Sisters"! They are for sure

3 of the nicest people we have ever met and to think

they are family!

We thank them from the bottom of our hearts for

our wonderful, relaxing, peaceful, fun days on the

lake in New Auburn.

This a picture of the three cottages at

Max's Resort. We stayed in the one on the left, which is the

largest of the three. It was very cute, comfortable and clean. We

really enjoyed the amazing view of the lake from our window!

We sure enjoyed the boat ride they treated us to around the lake.

We were surprised how big the lake actually is and had fun

taking in all of the interesting sights!

You can tell from this picture that Helmut really enjoyed

visiting and get better acquainted with our wonderful

"Wisconsin Sisters". They really treated us like royalty

the whole time we stayed there.

On Sunday we went to church hoping so see someone

Helmut would recognize from his mission 41 years ago.

That didn't happen, but everyone was so friendly and

sure tried to remember who he was......so funny...........

he may look a bit different than he did in 1968! Ya think?!

This is the building the ward met in when Helmut was

serving in Eau Claire as a missionary. Since then they

sold it to another church and have built a much larger church.

Time marches on............

This is my favorite picture from the trip.

None of the homes my dad lived in as a child in

West Allis were still there and everything had

changed. But, this a corner that he stood on

to sell newspapers back then and the same

building is still standing there. It was a

"hamburger joint" back when..........we were

so excited to find an original building that I

didn't even notice what it is now!

Milwuakee Fun!

Here are pictures from just a few of the things we did in

Milwuakee.........This first picture is from the Public Market.

It was not very big, but it was nice. The candy, ice cream

and baked goods all looked so yummy! Too bad we weren't

hungry after a whole week of "pigging-out".

We took a boat tour of Milwuakee and this is picture of

grandma & grandpa by the river before we got on the boat.

The ride was so relaxing and we got a great tour of the city

from the water.

One of the things that my dad wanted to see was the

"Greenfield Golf Course". It was one of the

places he sold newspapers when he was a kid. To our

surprise it was still there. It looked like a

very nice golf course.

He also had some pretty funny memories of a

"really steep" alley near one of the homes their

family lived in when they were in West Allis.

This is a picture of it........we all got a tickle out

of how steep it wasn't...........funny how we remember

things from our childhood.

We spent quite a bit of time looking for the cemeteries

where dad's grandparents and uncle were

buried. We found all three of them and this is a picture

taken by the tombstone of his grand-

father, Jan Przybyla.

Spring is Here!

The storms are quiet for now and the snow is melted.........a good chance to work

in the yard. One of our neighbors needed their garden plot rotatiled and so dad

is off with his riding lawn mower and pulling the cart with his rotatiller in the

cart.......so tricky! I was afraid that it would tip over and make a

mess of him and the equipment. But, it worked.

Ooooops! Guess it needs gas.

April 16th - Paul gets his new hearing aid!

Paul's appointment included a brief visit with Dr. Shelton before meeting with the

audiologist to get his new aid. It was very interesting.........first they tested with

the computer the implanted device and then they tested the aid on him.

This first picture they are testing the device........parts of the testing was

so loud that it was uncomfortable for him.

In this picture the audiologist is showing Paul the

hearing aid and telling him all about it.

On it goes!

Paul can hear with it, but it sounds like a bunch of

mumbling to him. He will go in again in two weeks for an

adjustment..........I don't know how many times that will be

required. Paul was dissapointed that it wasn't immediatly

similar to his life long experience with the other aids. This

is a different kind of technology and he has to relearn how to

process what he is hearing.

This is after we got home and he is watching tv.......trying to understand

what they are saying. After fiddling with it for a while he said it got

better, but it will take time for him to be completely comfortable with

his new hearing aid.

Happy Easter

After dinner Brian and Paul hid the eggs for an Easter Egg Hunt in the front yard. Krew

did an awesome job!

Ty was much more interested in riding the car than gathering eggs, so Meggan covered for

him, though. So funny!

The eggs were in some pretty clever hiding spots!
That didn't stop us from gathering them all.

Stryker was content with one egg........the older kids each found a bag full.
Sorry there's no pictures of them, papa was in charge of taking pictures!?
We missed all of the grandchildren that live so far away and we look forward
to the summer when they will come to visit.

The fun of having grandchildren!

We had so much fun when Cairen and her girls came to visit for a week! One day we did some

bread baking.........which included grinding spelt. Meggan had more help then she needed.

It was so cute how they all wanted to turn the hand grinder.........in a few years they won't

even want to help if we offer to pay them!

Stryker enjoying his birthday cake.........where did that year go?

One day when we had Krew and Stryker at our house we had a movie on to entertain
Krew. Everytime I came into the room Krew was watching the movie
from a different comfy spot.......so cute.

Krew and Sienna were watching me in the kitchen while their moms
were working on a project..........I love having the grandchildren at our house.