The Geerdts Family Blog
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We took a family trip to watch the April 8th eclipse from the path of totality. It was perfect weather, and we were lucky enough to find a small community airport in Fairfield, IL to watch the eclipse from. Here’s a couple pictures, and a timelapse of us watching the eclipse.
Read More 2024 Eclipse Viewing in Totality
Calvin was the first one to kayak on our lake this year! It must have been an exhilarating feeling to break up the ice with his kayak. Here are some photos plus a drone video at the end.
Read More First Kayaking of the Year
Today we celebrated Jen’s birthday with Trevor and Calvin home from college for the weekend. We brought them home to help take the pier and boat lifts out of the water. It was such a treat to have them home from college for a few days.
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This weekend was the weekend that it’s OK for Trevor and Calvin to be seen with their parents at college. It was a great time for Jen and Dan to spend some time with the boys and we even rented an apartment for the weekend. Trevor played in the pep band for a volleyball game, …
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This weekend we had a quick visit with Trevor and Calvin home from college, so we went back to our old neighborhood and had a visit. We started with a Boy Scout pancake breakfast, then checked out the plaques in the scout house that commemorate Trevor and Calvin earning the rank of Eagle Scout, and …
Read More Pancakes, Plaques and Pumpkins
Calvin graduated from high school today. He’s so happy to be done, but also kind of sad that his high school days are over. He is now an Alumni of his high school. Here are some pictures from today.
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Today was the return of the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Milwaukee. This parade was cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the global pandemic but it came back this year. St. Patrick is the patron saint of engineering, so MSOE has a spot in the parade. The MSOE Sound Engineers marched in the …
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Conditions were cold and snowy, but not too cold, so we took the family sledding at Korth Park. The snow ramp was there, and Calvin and Trevor had fun sledding over it. We broke some pieces off the back of our orange sled when we were all in it at the same time and went …
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One of our family’s favorite Christmas holiday traditions is to make and decorate gingerbread houses. When the boys were little, we decorated each house with a 2-person team (one boy and one parent), but now that the boys are older we each decorate our own house. This year Jen made extra gingerbread dough so we …
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We got our first quad copter recently. It has “First Person View”, also known as FPV, so you can fly it while wearing goggles that show you the view from a forward facing camera on the front of the quad copter. Turns out Calvin is a natural at flying like this. Dad on the other …
Read More Quad Copter Flying with Calvin