The Dye's Newsletter !

We thought this would be a great way to share news with family and friends the "new high tech way" via the internet. Since Deb has started her new website company, we figured we better find the time to get ours out there too.

We've had a great summer so far! Teddy and Matthew have been very happy to be out of school. They have been playing on their computers, playing with their Wii, doing anything Star Wars, having friends over, swimming in the pool in our yard or just plain being lazy.

I have been working at home for the last several months after finally getting out of that dreadful job at the newspaper. I just started up my website development business to do on the side at home, then maybe go back to work in the fall.

Eric has just started his new position at RCU and very happy to be back there. Everyone there has been very welcoming to him. We can't wait to go to their Christmas parties again.

Mom and Dad have been out here for over a year now and keep saying how they love it out here. It is great to visit with them anytime we feel like just popping in. They live just 4 houses down and it is very convenient. Mom loves walking to KMart which is just a couple block away and dad sure loves riding his John Deere lawn mower around all their property. They even love their neighbors which is a real plus for them. They also added a pup to the family, a female schnauzer named Bay-lee. She is super cute and loving.

We had a heck of a cold winter this year and we were all looking forward to this summer. It is finally here and warm! Probably our favorite thing to do is work in our yard, have a barbeque after, then sit around the fire pit Eric made and just relax in our yard at night. We are fortunate enough to have a great park like yard with large trees and allot of room for the boys and Sora our Beagle dog to run around in.

We have done a little travel this year, just because how busy we seem to keep ourselves. We went to Disney World in Florida in February and it really was magical like they say. Mom came along with us too. We got to see Aunt Francis and Uncle Eddie down there for abit which was really nice. It was amazing at Disney World! None of us wanted to leave. We can't wait to go back in a couple years. See our Disney picture gallery here.
We went camping on Memorial Day weekend as usual to our favorite camp ground at Callahan Lake Resort. The boys always hit records catching the fish there. We love the fresh air and sitting by the water right from our camp spot.

We made a trip to St. Paul for Teddy's 12th birthday July 25th. We all went to the big Star Wars exhibit at the Minnesota Science Museum. That was great! They had original props from the movies, a special effects Imax movie and even had characters walking all around. Matthew finally got his FX lightsaber he wanted so badly. We took Mom and Dad and Teddy's best friend along too. We took some great pictures there and you can click here to view them in one of our galleries. We stayed over night and swam in the motel. We then went to the Minnesota Zoo the next day to make a full weekend of it.

So now it is August and we are waiting for school to start. Teddy or should I say Ted is going to the middle school for 6th grade and Matthew is going into 3rd. They have grown like weeds. This is Teddy's year and he shot up fast and is already as tall as me. They are tring to get in as much computer time, playing on the Wii and just doing nothing until school starts.

more soon...