Brink.Family

Tucker & Jess Got Engaged!

2010-10-06T17:19:00.003-06:00

We are very happy to announce that

on September 25th, Tucker and Jessica Luedeman got engaged!

(This picture was taken at Chancie's wedding a month ago)

Here they are at one of Lincoln's football games this fall.

The date they have chosen to get married is still a year away, but mark your calendars!

November 19th, 2011!

Love,

Deb

Chancie Becomes Mrs. Aaron Baenen!

2010-10-06T16:45:00.006-06:00

On August 28th Chancie became the bride of Aaron Baenen! They got married in Don & Donna's beautiful yard! Was a WONDERFUL day!
That's our girl!

I got to be the photographer! So we have TONS of pictures of the day!

Chancie & Aaron

Under the beautiful arch

The whole wedding party

Our kids!

Our whole family ~ as of that day!

Deb

Donna's rooms get a facelift! (Back in March! I'm slow here!)

2010-10-06T15:39:00.008-06:00

This is really far behind but I forgot about it till I saw the pics on the computer today!

Preparing their bedroom to paint

Mom started in the closet - I started on the ceiling
The bedroom things got put in the living room!
Their bedroom with the new flooring in and the walls painted!
I helped Mom with the painting and Bryan put the beautiful floors in!

The pretty bathroom all done!

The guest bedroom - my old room - is so warm feeling with it's newly painted golden yellow walls and the wood laminate flooring!

A broader view of the guest bedroom

Then a broad view of their beautiful bedroom as it is all put back together!

Again

Oops! Didn't mean to have this one again! But, it was a job that felt good to get done because the results were so nice!

Then lastly we have the computer room - or Sonja's old room!

It got it's walls painted pretty dark, but it looks great! It also got the wood laminate flooring like the other 2 bedrooms!

Well, that's all for now about the paint & renovations at Mom's house!

Deb

Grandma Wilma Brink was laid to rest on December 28, 2009

2010-01-02T15:27:00.006-07:00

Grandma ~ Wilma Brink ~ 92 years old ~ WE LOVE YOU GRANDMA!!!
All 19 grandchildren at the funeral ~ sang the song "Love Remains"
The 19 grandchildren

All of the Great and Great great grandchildren that were at the funeral

Again, the greats and great-greats

The 6 kids

The 6 kids and their spouses

Grandma's 3 handsome sons

Grandma's 3 beautiful daughters

The 6 children and their spouses plus a couple cousins

The reception afterwards

The table with Grandma's 3 sisters and some of their families

We all said the final good-bye to Grandma that day ~ but she (along with Grandpa) will live in our hearts forever ~ the BEST grandparents anybody ever had!!!

REST IN PEACE GRANDMA

Love,

Deb

Cruisin'

2009-08-15T21:08:00.006-06:00

Bryan and Sharon had a fabulous time cruising the Caribbean. We're ready to go again---any takers?!! Here are some photos of our wonderful, relaxing vacation. Here we are "up top." We weren't too sure the little life preserver would be much good if someone actually went overboard!!

Hangin' on the Lido Deck.

Beautiful Charlotte Amalie harbor on St. Thomas.

Orient Beach on St. Maarten. (The rock marks the dividing line between the nude beach and the public beach. Yes, we did get an eyeful!!)

Izzabella's Brink Reunion Tie-dyed Onesie!

2009-08-13T17:21:00.002-06:00

Cassidy sent me this picture today of Izzabella in her tie-dyed onesie that was made at the Brink reunion last weekend! It's a little big on her little 2 week old self, but VERY cute!!!

Grandma Deb

Meet the newest member of the Brink family!

2009-08-01T12:01:00.004-06:00

Meet Izzabella June Ayotte ~ daughter of Cassidy & Luke Ayotte ~ Born Sunday, July 26th, 2009 at 5:39 PM. She weighed 7 lbs. 4 oz. and was 20 inches long. A perfect little miracle!

The new family on Izzabella's 3rd day of life!

Grandma Deb getting some great snuggle time!

Our little angel!

This is Izzabella & her Mommy each at almost the same age (6 days & 4 days to be exact!)

Deb

Express Yourself!!

2009-07-31T07:19:00.002-06:00

The Brink Family Reunion is coming up fast!! Do you remember our plan for this year?? Well, I'll give you a check list!

1 or 2 cans of your favorite color of spray paint. If you have a larger family you may want to bring more.
bring as many T-shirt, onsies!! or Soffees (yes, we can do shorts) as you want. I am bringing a black t-shirt and dark color t-shirts to do neon! It is so cool!
contact shelf paper for stencils or any fun stencil you might want to share.
scissors
Does anyone have a "bead-dazzler?"
new pencils with full erasers
Most important.....your wild imagination!
For those who might be pregnant or have lung problems you might want to bring a vapor mask, last year I made quite a few and my lungs were not happy!

We had so much fun last year, let's see what we can do this year!

Molly

Have you all heard the news?!?

2009-06-26T23:06:00.002-06:00

Just wanted to be sure the word is out to everybody that Chancie & Aaron Baennen got engaged on June 13th! The date to keep open is still 13 months away - but the
wedding is set for August 28, 2010
We are happy to have Aaron as a future son-in-law. Most of you have met Aaron, as he was at Austin & Sarah's wedding with Chancie (that was also when we met him for the first time!) and then again at Cassidy & Luke's wedding, Lincoln's graduation... he hit alot of big family gatherings at the beginning of their relationship! And he still stuck around! HA!
So now all the planning can begin - she is starting to get to all of that & I'm sure will have a real good time doing it!
Anyway, just wanted you all to know about the engagement & upcoming wedding!

Oh, and it's only 3 weeks until our first grandbaby is due to arrive!!!
Cassidy has been doing just awesome & she & Luke are very anxious now to meet their little one!
(Wow! That color changing every other word was a lot of work!!!)
Deb

Kieth & Deb Cruise the Caribbeean!

2009-02-13T20:43:00.004-07:00

January 10th - 18th we cruised the beautiful Caribbean with 6 of our friends & had an AWESOME time! Here we are on the Princess Kay private Island where we hung out on the beach all day long! How relaxing!

Don't we look smashing in our beautiful orange life vests here?!? Gotta have the drill before you can sail!

Here we are by one of the 'magic' palm trees on a tropical island!

Coming back to the ship after a day of snorkeling at Grand Turk ~ what AWESOME snorkeling I might add!!!!!!

We attended an evening show every night after our supper ~ which we thoroughly enjoyed! The whole trip was just great & we would highly recommend you all take a cruise sometime too!
Deb

Scott's Visit to HAWAII!!!

2008-11-22T10:42:00.006-07:00

Papa comes to Hawaii!!! Megan and Papa looking for lava rocks on the west side. Electric Beach

Scott on the west side near Kaena Point.

Diana, Megan, Papa, Me and Emma stop and check out the view of Kole Kole Pass.

One of the days was spent renting a hog and Dad and Diana "rode the island"!

Scott and a huge sea turtle, North Shore.

Papa, Me, Emma, Megan and Tom with a HUGE MONK SEAL!!! Turtle Beach

Papa caught a crab and him and Megan had soooo much fun playing with it!

Diana, Emma, Megan and Papa with a sea turtle. Turtle Beach!

Scott and Diana, west side, Paradise Cove.

Dole Plantation!

Papa and Emma at the laua at Paradise Cove!

We had a fun filled week, don't ya think! A few other stops included Pearl Harbor, Waikki (from the boat, lol) Macadamia Nut Farm, Mackey's Shrimp Shack, the flee market, of course the harley store and lets not forget about China Town , hee hee, hee even if it was cause they got lost. It was so much fun having them...we miss you already Papa!!!

Pheasant Season Opener ~ West River Style!

2008-10-18T21:02:00.002-06:00

Every year for years now we Smiths host a pheasant season opener hunting day for the Olivier crew. This year proved to be a very fun time by all who attended! Lincoln was able to come home for it as his football team played on Thursday night this week, and Chancie & Aaron got to come & bring Aaron's Dad with them, whom we all really enjoyed the company of!
Tucker's faithful dog 'Buddy' proved he was a very good 'bird dog' throughout the day so here he is by the day's bounty!
I was gone with Colby to a volleyball tourney (they came in 2nd - did very well!) until the time this was in the beautiful sky - so we missed out on the hunting day, but Chancie & Mom kept the masses fed & Mom captured the photo opportunities here so we have them for posterity! Great job Donna!!! We did get to share the evening & supper with those that were still here to eat at the end of the day - so got to hear the stories. A couple of Lincoln's buddies came over to join in on the hunting fun too so that was even better!
It's been a good day!
Deb

Jay & Nadine got Hitched!!

2008-09-16T08:32:00.003-06:00

In a small ceremony in Deadwood...Jay & Nadine got hitched. Jack McCall (the gun slinger who shot Wild Bill Hickok) officiated... it was pretty cool!! :0)

Also in the pic above are Jay & Nadine's best friends who made the treck across the state in their honor!! Congratulations Jay & Nadine!!

Philip was "Capital for a Day"

2008-08-29T09:02:00.002-06:00

Look at the nice sign that welcomed the State Staff when they arrived at Philip High School yesterday!
Colby and Dana had a little fun playing some 'game', with the cell phone (after school hours of course! No cell phones allowed during school hours!), some game that is evidently hard to explain - but looked like they were having lots of fun!
Governor Rounds was kind enough to pose for a picture with Colby & we got Dana to stand in too! Thanks Dana! We had a fun day & Colby thought it was pretty cool having you there! Well, I really enjoyed having you there too actually!
This year's All State Chorus members sang the National Anthem at the start of the program & led the audience with the singing of "God Bless America" at the end at Gov. Rounds' request (pictured). Colby is the Philip Alto for All State Chorus this year - how fun! (That will be in Sioux Falls on November 1st!)
At the very end of the evening, Governor Rounds was so kind to pose for a quick photo with some of the kids that met with him earlier in the day for a question & answer period. Wish they all would still have been around (there were 29 of them at the meeting - top 6 or so from each class). But it was very nice to be able to get this picture of at least this many!
It was a very big day for Philip & I think we presented ourselves well. I was the 'photographer for the day' so have many photos to remember the day with!

It has been an extremely busy week and we have our 1st football game tonight & our 1st volleyball game tomorrow night (Miss Colby is SO excited for that!!!), so the weekend doesn't prove to be any slower! (Lincoln had their 1st football game last night - haven't talked to him yet but I heard on the news that they lost - the freshmen are all red-shirting, so stood with the team on the sidelines in their jerseys the way I understood it).
Hopefully by tomorrow though I will give everybody an update on the house - today I have sports buttons to crank out & football t-shirts to sort through - and people to feed at noon...

Have an awesome weekend!!!

Deb

Happy Back to School Everyone!!!

2008-08-25T10:12:00.002-06:00

Wishing everyone an awesome year! Bring home good grades!!! make lotsa new friends!! and most of all, have fun and enjoy! Love you all!!! :0)

5 generations!... x 2

2008-08-20T16:11:00.004-06:00

Jackie, Great-Grandma Donna, Reece, Great-Great Grandma Brink, Papa Scott, Riley, Brady, KaciJari, Alyn, Great-Grandma Donna, Great-Great Grandma Brink, Papa Scott & Arly

and Jenna's two girls, Megan and Emma are the other 2 great great grandkiddos... are there anymore?!??!

HOW SWEET IT IS!!!

xo!
loves to you all!

Hello!!

2008-08-06T20:00:00.003-06:00

guess what?? WE LOST THE GAME!!! ;0)

cute grand-daughter, oooops, i mean grand-son-in-law! (you're a good sport gramma!!)
Sweet little chicks....
Thanks Gramma....we LOVE racin' these cars! You're the best!!

Deb started a Smith blog too

2008-08-02T13:33:00.003-06:00

To all of you Brinks, etc. who read this - I just spread my wings a little bit & clicked on a few things & started a Smith blog too! I just got it started & don't know much about it but wanted to let you all know so you can visit it too - then maybe I won't have to take up all the room on the Brink site! I tend to get carried away with pictures ya know! Our address is: kdsmith7-life.blogspot.com It's called WIDE OPEN SPACES So come visit!

Cassidy & Luke's Wedding

2008-08-02T11:10:00.003-06:00

Cassidy & Luke ~ and these smiles were on their faces absolutely the whole day! Fun to watch!
Here is the whole wedding party - Ushers included - Tucker & Lincoln were ushers. And of course Chancie & Colby were bridesmaids - Chancie Maid of Honor & Colby next in line.
Here is the whole new - extended - Smith family! Don't those guys look spiffy in their suits?!?
Then here are the sassy Smith girls! They will pose for a camera ya know!
So ya gotta have a picture with the brothers too! Especially when they look so nice!

Lincoln at the All Star Football Game

2008-08-01T22:23:00.002-06:00

These are some pics from the All Star Football Game in Aberdeen on July 24th - which was Kieth's 49th birthday by the way! Lincoln said it was one of the most fun football games he ever played in! It was quite fun to watch too - I suppose especially since his team won!

Deb

2008-08-01T21:44:00.002-06:00

Well, this is where we are at with our house as of this weekend! It's been a fun week with changes that are visible! The big dormer windows really add style to the place we think! We will sure look forward to lots of overnight visitors when we get all moved in - we will have a guest bedroom ya know! Right now is the difficult challange of picking out light fixtures & determining where all the switches & outlets will be... a little bit of stress going on here!!!

Deb

I will try to redeem myself

2008-08-01T17:33:00.003-06:00

Alyn is riding away with her Knight in shining armour!

Don't they look happy together!

Foiled once again! I can't seem to load any more than two pics! At this rate I will be here all weekend!

2008-08-01T17:09:00.002-06:00

You may have to zoom in (if you can do that) to see all of the happy little faces. We had Tommy, Margie (aka. little old lady), Bailey, Cooper, Tessa, Faith, Arly, Alyn, Reily, Casey, and Reese!

Well this is all that it will let me post, I am probably doing something wrong!

Aloha from the O'Grady's

2008-07-31T20:10:00.002-06:00

Megan and Emma at the beach in Waikiki
our fam-bam at a luau
Megan and Emma just being silly! Aloha everyone, and for you newbies welcome to blogspot! Our family has our own blog~ www.ogradyfam.blogspot.com if any one not already in "my circle" has blogs please let me know so i can add you and check on ya'll! We hope you all had a great time this past weekend. We wish we could have been there. Love and miss you all!
love,
Tom, Jenna, Megan and Emma

Happy & Excited Girl!

2008-07-29T16:14:00.002-06:00

Just had to add this to my list of pics! Cass just called & was so excited! She took her State Boards on Monday, July 21st & just found out today that she passed the test with real good scores! So that is a real relief! (of course I knew she would do good on them, but there is always an anxiety until you find out for sure! And of course I had to use one of her wedding pics to illustrate the news! I'll post other wedding pics one of these days!)

2008-07-29T16:02:00.001-06:00

Deb & Molly were at this project for ALOT of the day!!!

The making of the shirts!

2008-07-29T15:59:00.001-06:00

EVERYBODY got in there & showed their creativity doing this cool family activity that Molly came up with to create our own new Brink reunion shirts!

2008-07-29T15:54:00.001-06:00

Even some of the guys got into making their own shirts! Beau really got into the spirit! Way to go Beau!!!

2008-07-29T15:47:00.002-06:00

I think Kieth was having way too much fun racing against Aaron!!! They went at least 3 turns being sure to be in the same 'heat'! You'ld think that would be enough to scare Aaron away wouldn't you?!? No, we kind of like the guy!

2008-07-29T15:42:00.001-06:00

And here is the other half of that family! I hear that Alyn was not enjoying her racing - but her pics didn't really show that!

2008-07-29T14:54:00.000-06:00

Do you think it looks like these guys were having fun???

Oliviers at the Brink Reunion

2008-07-29T14:41:00.002-06:00

Hey! I think I figured it out - all by myself even!!! Here is the Olivier leg that was respresented at the Brink Reunion last weekend.

There is actually a Smith in the picture that has no blood ties to the Brink family - many Smiths do, but not this one! But he was a real sport over the weekend & even had a reunion shirt made to match the rest of us!

we're up and running!

2008-07-29T14:10:00.003-06:00

hi... and welcome to our Brink family blog! i will send this out as an email to everyone - with instructions on how to sign in, post pics, blogs, comment... and if you ever have questions just call me @ 605.295.0290 or email me @ jjspry@hotmail.com. anyone that wasn't at the reunion... i will need your address to add you to the permissions so you can post whenever as well! i hope this will keep us all in touch more.... happy blogging! ;o)

i will add more later (make it more colorful*FUN!)... our SD vacation has been extended due to the very unexpected death of one of joels friends.

xo!

jari (olivier) spry