W.ONDERFUL W.ORLD OF W.ADHOLMS

We’ve added another Amber to the family. Amber Rose is Jordan’s new bride (her middle name is forever now to be used so as not to confuse sister Amber with sister-in-law Amber)! Congratulations to you! The wedding was beautiful, and the reception was a lot of fun, too. Cambria only made it through the first half, unfortunately. But between Rick and I, we both saw most of it. The wedding was in southern MN, where Amber Rose is from. Here is a pictue of the bride and groom, of course, and one of Rick and I at the wedding.

By: Rick Wadholm Jr.

This was taken at Jenn’s brother Jordan’s wedding reheasal supper. Here are three cute amigos: (L-R) Michael, Cambria, and Ricky. They really enjoyed themselves getting to sit next to each other. :o) Michael is Heather’s little one and Ricky is Heidi’s youngest.

By: Rick Wadholm Jr.

We are back from our “vacation” and are trying to settle back into reality. It’s a slow process, which is why it’s good that we have a whole week to work back into a routine before school starts. We had a wonderful time seeing family, celebrating birthdays, and enjoying a wedding. Throughout the week we will post pictures of some of the fun things we did while we were gone. Here’s pictures of our trip down to Aberdeen to celebrate our neice Sarah’s 5th birthday.
Above, Sarah has a Spongebob party with all the cousins. Below, some of the cousins enjoying a picnic on beautiful, lush, green grass (which was a sparcity up here for awhile).

By: Rick Wadholm Jr.

Yesterday we celebrated a wedding in our church (the first in many years). Our friends Sheldon and Sarina had a beautiful ceremony, which we enjoyed kid free!! Rick did the ceremony and Jenn got to watch with no distractions! After the reception, when we were cleaning up, the town got hit with a nasty storm. Although there were no tornados reported, we had many trees down. Here is a picture showing several trees which were uprooted and leaning sideways, and the bottom picture is of a tree that fell down on a house!

By: Rick Wadholm Jr.

We had our annual church picnic out at one of the area lakes on Sunday. It’s always fun having a service outdoors on a hillside. We just had the most beautiful weather, too. Of course we ate way too much food, and then we got way too much sun (Rick earned a sufficient sunburn). We had some good pictures of Rick and the kids swimming, but they turned out too dark. Here’s one of Cambria and her oh so cute pigtails.

By: Rick Wadholm Jr.

Bryce had his 7th birthday yesterday! Wow! We just can’t believe it! That morning I (Jenn) called him (since I was at camp still) to sing him Happy Birthday. I asked him if he felt any older, and he said no, but then paused in thought and responded, “I feel fatter.” I got a good laugh out of that one (I feel that way too!), then I asked him what he meant. He said it was because he ate one hundred cereals. The kid can EAT, but he is just skinny as can be, so good for him that he feels fatter on his birthday! :0) I think we can all learn a lesson there–we should feel fatter on our birthdays AND be happy or proud of it!

By: Rick Wadholm Jr.

I (Jenn) apparently cannot get enough of camps! I just got back from the A/G MN Jr. High camp, and it was awesome. It’s been about 4 years since I’ve counselled at a camp, so I was a little rusty going into the week. But I stepped it up, and I went in full force. Of course, it’s so easy when you are counseling the best girls EVER! There is just something about youth camps that I just love. Youth feeling comfortable enough to really enter into worship (it’s just so much easier when you are with your peers), and it’s just incredible to see their hearts so hungry after God! It was just amazing. And there’s just nothing like getting to act as crazy and dumb as you want, and it’s okay because you are supposed to (well, the girls I counselled might have another opinion on that one). My body doesn’t quite recover as quickly as it used to, though…but for the record, I did body slam quite a few girls in the mud pit! (note: the mud pit is the place where one of our games took place in which the counselors had to guard barrels, and the campers had to try to get balls into them. It was our job to throw down anyone trying to get a ball into the barrels. Also, the mud had quite a few rocks and sticks in it–so I’m pretty scratched up and black and blue). And, amazingly, I would do it again! Here’s a picture of me and all my girls. By the way, Rick had a GREAT time being home with all three kids without me! :O) One time when I called him he said, “I am REALLY ready for you to come home!” Abbi had one meltdown, but other than that we all survived the week.

By: Rick Wadholm Jr.

What a busy week we had–but oh, so much fun!! We went to FaHoCha camp this week(12-13 yr olds) where Rick was the camp speaker. The kids spent most of their days catching frogs and then killing them (accidently, of course, since Abbi is not so gentle). We felt that it was one of the best camps we’ve ever done there. The first time we went was when Bryce was just about 1 yr. old and he was sick the whole week. Well, 6 years later and things haven’t changed much. This year Cambria and Abbi got sick. Oh well, that’s just how it goes! Can you play “Where’s Wadholms?” and find them in this picture? This is a group picture of all the campers, and it was one of the largest camps they’ve ever had. Awesome!

On Saturday we got to participate in Cory Thompson’s wedding to Ashley Wenaas. Cory was in our youth group in Osnabrock when we were there. Ashley is from Carrington, so that’s where the wedding was held. Really nice for us since that meant Grandpa Bruce and Grandma Patti got to babysit the kids for us! Yeah!! What a great way to end the week!

By: Rick Wadholm Jr.