The Geerdts Family Blog
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.
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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 …
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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 took a day trip today to Turkey Run State Park in Indiana. We wanted to experience Brood X Cicadas close up and personal. The cicadas were definitely there for us, and they were busy in the trees making their sounds. Lots of holes in the ground around trees and molted shells scattered around. A …
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Today we had some fun family time sledding at our local park. The hill is just long enough to be a fun ride down but not too long to walk back up. Calvin and Trevor went over the ramp that some other kids made, and there’s a video below of Calvin in the air (recorded …
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Today is Trevor’s high school graduation day. Even though we are celebrating with family Zoom calls and rumors of an in-person ceremony with masks in July, we took some pictures of our graduate with his cap and gown to honor the occasion. Congratulations Trevor, and congratulations to the whole Class of 2020 who are all …
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