{"id":308,"date":"2007-01-10T09:48:41","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T14:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=308"},"modified":"2007-01-10T09:48:41","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T14:48:41","slug":"Christmas 2006 Pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=308","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2006 Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may be a day late and a dollar short, but here are our pictures from our Christmas adventure. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/christmas06\/iceagetrail.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Aunt Kat and Analise walking on the Ice Age Trail.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/christmas06\/analisepull.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Analise and I went sledding. Analise is actually pulling me on the sled down a short hill here.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/christmas06\/oldhighschoolfootballfield.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>This football field was at the bottom of the hill where Analise was pulling me.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/christmas06\/littlesnowman.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Analise and I made a wee little snowman before it snowed later that afternoon.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/christmas06\/superior-harbor.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>I biked 113 miles from Shell Lake, WI to Duluth, MN one day. I met everyone in <br \/>Canal Park where we spent the night and had a great time.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/christmas06\/duluth-portarea.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Here&#8217;s a picture from the top of the ridge overlooking Duluth back down at the port area.<br \/>Note the curved line where the bay is frozen over. We were lucky that it has been a warmer winter<br \/>and the entire bay is not frozen. Normally, the shipping season would be over, but we saw several<br \/>large ships entering and leaving the harbor right next to our hotel where we were staying.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/christmas06\/duluth-ice.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Even though there was barely any snow on the ground, there was lots of ice around Duluth. These ice falls<br \/>were located very close to where I took the previous picture up on top of the ridge.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/christmas06\/duluth-homemadeicerink.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Here is a genuine homemade ice rink. No more than a garden hose and a few boards required!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/christmas06\/snowing.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Finally, it started snowing!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/christmas06\/indianhead.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>More snow!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/christmas06\/sled01.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Sledding in the street out front.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/christmas06\/sled02.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>The smiling pink princess!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/christmas06\/sled03.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Analise went down the hill all by herself!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/christmas06\/sled04.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Lots of times!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/christmas06\/sled05.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Other people&nbsp;sledding (and falling) down the hill. <br \/>In the background, you can see the snow&nbsp;family we helped make.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/christmas06\/snowfamily1.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Somebody else had already made this large snow man.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/christmas06\/snowfamily2.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>We made the two smaller snowmen named Analise and Josiah next to the larger one.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/christmas06\/salem1.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Here&#8217;s the church, Salem Lutheran, where Kristine and I got married three and a half years ago.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/christmas06\/salem2.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Analise helped brush the snow off the nativity in front of the church.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/christmas06\/salem3.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Analise also decided to participate in the nativity and see baby Jesus!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/christmas06\/josiah.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>It was too cold outside for Josiah, but he had a great time inside by the Christmas tree!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/christmas06\/newbuffalo1.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Finally, on the way home I rode my bike from La Porte, Indiana <br \/>to New Buffalo, Michigan and took this picture of Lake Michigan.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"\/photos\/family\/christmas06\/newbuffalo2.jpg\" align=\"baseline\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>The lighthouse in New Buffalo, Michigan.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" \/>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be a day late and a dollar short, but here are our pictures from our Christmas adventure. Enjoy! Aunt Kat and Analise walking on the Ice Age Trail. Analise and I went sledding. Analise is actually pulling me on the sled down a short hill here. This football field was at the bottom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-4Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}