What was lost is now found!

Ole Jette & Kira


For 50 plus years we have looked for my Grandfather Olsen's family in Denmark. My Grandfather died in 1953 His family in Denmark did not speak English and his children did not speak Danish, so the family lost contact with his family in Denmark after his death. In 1998 I posted a “looking for” on the Olsen Family Forum looking for anyone who might know the family. Nothing!! In 2003 I called the Kolding, Denmark paper to see if the paper would consider putting an add in the paper. They did!! And still nothing!! I was beginning to think I would never find my Danish family. I had given up hope of every finding them. I had teased my Aunt Arrine that grandfather must have been a criminal and he had come to America to get a fresh start.
I’m glad to say my Grandfather was not a criminal. I have found my Danish family. August 24 I thought I’d check my email one last time before I went to bed. To my surprise there in my email was a short note from Ole Olsen of Kolding Denmark. He had been looking for his American family for 30 years. He knew my grandfather existed but didn’t know his name or a lot about him. He had spoken to Otto Olsen a cousin in Denmark and he told him a little about my grandfather, where he lived in Florida, his name and date of his birth. From there Ole went on line and Googled my grandfather’s name. He found my post on the Olsen Forum.
Ole and I made contact the 25th of August 2009 and it has been a wonderful blessing. I am so excited! Ole and his wonderful wife Jette made plans to come America for Thanksgiving. I decided it would be a wonderful time to celebrate the lives of my grandparents so we put together a Olsen reunion. We decided Lakeland, Florida would be the best place for the reunion since that is where most of the family lives. We had a wonderful two week reunion. I can’t wait to visit them in Denmark and met the rest of my family.




Children of Ole and Rhoda Olsen: Otto (Red) Owen (blue) Lyra (pink) & Arrine (black)

Ole and Jette Olsen (of Denmark) with the children of Ole and Rhoda Olsen

Happy Birthday John David!

Happy 24th Birthday John David!
Love you and miss you!

Cody and Kira's Visit

Jim (my Honey)


Kira, Bob, Cody, and Christina!


Kira



Kira, Bob, Cody!


I hope today to catch up on my Blog.I have been so busy with school and life that I haven't been keeping up very well.
We had a wonderful visit with my niece and nephew the first part of August..They got here on Friday evening.. Saturday Jim had a Shot Gun shoot with the Scouts.. we all went and had a wonderful time.. We went to Amish country on Monday (Cody wanted to see a real Amish Man) Tuesday we went to Niagra Falls, Wednesday we went to the Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame, Thursday we we to Ceder Point, and Friday Christina's birthday we stayed close to home dinner and a movie here in town.. Saturday we went to columbus to the Mall and Lunch at the House of Japan..It was a busy week but we had a wonderful time!! Can't wait till next year..






Cody and Kira!


Kira (Little Amish Girl)

We took a short trip to Neigra Falls.. we had to go on the New York side since Cody, Kira and Christina do not have Pass Ports. We had a wonderful day..

Cody and Uncle Jim!
Rhoda and Jim!
Cody, Christina and Kira!
Kira and Cody
The Falls!



On Wednesday we went to the Rock-N-Roll hall of Fame and the Football Hall of Fame!
I have pictures of the Football Hall of Fame but none of the Rock-N-Roll hall of Fame. They ask that you not take pictures there!

The Football Hall Of Fame I have lots of pictures!!
I'm not much of a Football fan but I liked the Football hall of fame way better than the Rock-N-Roll hall of fame!





Thursday we went to Ceder point for the day!!
The kids had a blast there!! Stacy and the boys went with us and that made the trip even more enjoyable for Cody and Kira!!

Stacy and Maddox (my favorite picture of the day)
Kira!
Cody!

Doll Quil!t

Tomorrow starts the "Shop Hop".. I made a quilt this year for shop hop. I think it turned out cute.. Here are a couple of Pictures of my quilt!



I saw this quilt in my "Easy Quilt" Magazine and just loved it! The company had such a run on the material that they had to print it three times! Hope you like it as much as I do..I'm saving it for my 1st granddaughter!!!

Fun at the Coopers!

Dear Sweet "Clara Mae Graves"




Jim and Marty playing "COrn Hole"

Jim, Mary and Rachel Murry!
















This past Saturday the church had a pioneer celebration at the Cooper's, everyone had a great time. Diana Pike
told a story about one of her pioneer ancestors, we had wonderful food to eat and a couple brave souls participate in “Stick Pull”.
I didn’t get many pictures I for got my batteries and my camera died :O( poor planning on my part. Here are a couple of the ones I did get.

Nauvoo!

In June the Singles Ward went on a trip to Navoo, Il. There where a total of 60 that went. Christina had a great time; they left Columbus at 12:00 A.M. on Friday morning arriving in Nauvoo around 8:00 A.M. that same morning. First stop was the Old Nauvoo Cemetery, next stop a tour of Nauvoo put on but The Community of Christ (formally the Restored Church). Those that where endowed where able to do a endowment session in the new Beautiful Nauvoo Temple,
while those that where not endowed participated in baptisms for the dead. Everyone had a wonderful time. Did I mention they took an Ohio State bus!! What a way to travel! sleep and let someone else do all the driving.

Valerie, Emily,Breezy, Brandy, Christina.

A Day At The Zoo!

Yesterday Christina and I took the girls to the Columbus Zoo for the day. They loved seeing all the animals. Ella's favorite was the Otters and Madeline liked the monkeys. Madeline how ever did not like the Red Butted Baboon she keep saying he was "Grosse" and she didn't like the Orangutan he to "Hariy" according to Maddie. My favorite has always been the Manatees. We took lots of pictures and had a wonderful day.


New Baby Elephant.

Madeline and Ella.

Tiger.

Madeline and Ella with the baby elephant statue.

Lets Go Out To The Ball Game!

Today was opening day ceremony for Coach Pitch softball. Jim is coaching with Eric Driggs. They have the 5 to 8 year old girls again this year. The girls are all so cute and it’s fun to watch Jim with all those little girls.. This Years Team


Introducing The Team




The big thing since Jim is the pitcher is to see if they can hit hard enough to hit him! One little girl did hit him. And Hannah is always saying she is going to get him so he always tells her that when it is her turn he is "bringing on the heat"!


It was a great first game! They don’t keep score with this age group but they did very well and if they did keep score they would have won.. Way to go girls.


To Taylors for Ice Cram !