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Family Photos

Here you'll find some of our favorite snapshots over the years as well as our latest adventures. As a family with varied interests, we enjoy the challenge of finding something fun we all enjoy.

Let us know if you have any questions! We're happy to pass on any tips or ah-hah moments we've had along the way.

2024

Bruce and Jenny smile during a date night.

Kurt and Karl Kamrud stand on either side of Bruce on the backyard ramp they helped construct.

Bruce utilizes his new-to-him power wheelchair during a date night with Jenny in the Twin Cities.

Jenny and Bruce prepare for a comedy show during a date night in the Twin Cities.

Jenny and Bruce enjoy dinner before a comedy show during a date night in the Twin Cities.

Bruce, Nick, Chad, Jenny, Tracey, Maggie, and Keiko the dog pose in front of the back deck, which they added framing to in order to prepare for a ramp.

David, Lily, Bridget, Anne, Eric, Chad, Jenny, Joe, and Tracey pose in front of the back deck, which they moved in order to prepare for the construction of an extension to prepare for a ramp.

Jenny and Bruce enjoy the Blues Festival in Duluth to celebrate their 24th wedding anniversary.

2023

Annika, Jenny, Bruce, and Nick smile in front of an empty stage after attending a Queen concert in the Twin Cities together as a wedding anniversary gift to Nick and Annika.

Kim, Annika, Nick, Bruce, and Jenny smile in the Blue Lagoon of Iceland at the end of their trip to Scotland.

Annika, Nick, Kim, Bruce, and Jenny wait for their Icelandic dinner after arriving from Scotland.

Bruce and Jenny lovingly look at one another as the sun sets on the northern side of the Isle of Skye in Scotland on Jenny's birthday.

Bruce, Jenny, and Kim watch the sun set on the northern side of the Isle of Skye in Scotland on Jenny's birthday. Kim is side hugging Jenny as Jenny leans her head on Kim's.

Nick, Annika, and Bruce stand in front of a wall of fog that hides the Old Man of Storr on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.

Annika, Jenny, Kim, Nick, and Bruce take a family photo while visiting Eilean Donan Castle near the Isle of Skye in Scotland.

Annika, Nick, Bruce, Kim, Annika, Glenn, and Jenny enjoy their last meal together before Big Annika and Glenn return to their home in Sweden.

Bruce, Nick and Glenn enjoy a Scotch tasting at the Oban Distillery in Scotland.

Annika and Bruce laugh as they battle the wind while visiting the Ring of Brodgar, seen in the background, on Orkney Island in Scotland.

Nick, Annika, Annika, Bruce, and Glenn pose in front of the Highland Park Distillery, located on Orkney Island in Scotland, after enjoying a tour and tasting together.

Kim, Bruce, Jenny, Annika, Glenn, Nick, and Annika get their photo taken in front of the Wallace National Monument in Scotland just before most of the group climbs to the top.

Annika, Jenny, Bruce, Kim, Annika, Nick, and Glenn enjoy their first meal together in Scotland after Annika and Glenn arrive from Sweden.

Kim, Bruce, Jenny, Glenn, Annika, Nick, and Annika pose in front of Loch Ness near Urquhart Castle.

Bruce and Jenny smile together as the light of the setting sun is cast over Edinburgh Castle.

2016-2022

Bruce, Jenny, Kim, Cora, Annika, and Maggie enjoy a celebratory meal together before Annika travels to Iceland to elope in 2021.

Kim, Annika, Jenny, Bruce, and a photo bombing staff pose in front of the Hogwarts Express at Universal Studios in Florida in 2016.

In 2020 Bruce, Jenny, Nick, Annika and Kim look serious while posing in the red-lit room of an Escape Room in Duluth.

Jenny, Nick, Annika, Kim, and Bruce laugh while playing Carcassonne together during a family game night in 2020.

Bruce, seen as a black spec high in the trees at an aerial adventure park that Annika managed in 2019, attempts the most difficult course onsite.

Annika and Bruce smile together as they share a platform on the hardest course at an aerial adventure park Annika managed in 2019.

Bruce and Jenny zip alongside one another at an aerial adventure park Annika managed in 2019.

Annika and Bruce smile at the camera in 2018 while Jenny and Kim act silly in the backyard while doing some yard work. Chewie the dog can be seen in the background.

Jenny and Bruce pose together in front of a heart made of holiday lights, which frames a freighter that is passing through the Aerial Lift Bridge in Duluth, while visiting Bentleyville in 2018.

Bruce, Annika, and Charles (Bruce's Dad) pose together while visiting Charles.

Bruce, Kim, Annika, and Jenny smile together while visiting Grandpa Charles, Bruce's Dad.

Chris, Anna, Kim, Jenny, Tracey, Kalilah, and Bruce smile in front of a waterfall while Jenny, Bruce, and Kim visit everyone in Colorado in 2017.

Bruce and a fellow "volunteer" pose on either side of Belle during a special meet-and-greet event at DisneyWorld in 2016.

Bruce, Kim, Annika, and Jenny make silly faces just before seeing an evening show at DisneyWorld in 2016.

Bruce, Jenny, Annika, and Kim celebrate reuniting at the airport after their DisneyWorld trip in 2016, as they didn't expect Annika's shuttle to catch up to everyone else's.

2010-2015

Annika hugs Bruce before catching a shuttle to the airport so she can go back to work in California in 2015.

Kim and Bruce look at the moving water of an iron-rich river in Minnesota in 2014.

Bruce, Kim, Jenny, Charles, Sierra, Kim, Scott, and Craig pose together on Grandpa Charles' couch while brother Craig, wife Kim, and children Sierra and Scott visit everyone in Minnesota in 2013.

Sierra, Kim, and Bruce swim together in Lake Superior while family visits us in Minnesota in 2013.

Bruce, Annika, Kim, and Jenny visit Hawk's Ridge to watch tagged hawks get released back into the wild.

Bruce holds Kim while they both spread their arms and make silly faces. A giant boulder in Lake Superior can be seen behind them.

Bruce and Kim have placed their heads in a frame, turning themselves into Santa's elves while visiting Bentleyville in 2013.

Kim and Bruce snowshoe together in Minnesota in 2013.

Firaya and Tetyana, runners from Russia, stand on either side of Bruce just before participating in the Grandma's Marathon in 2012.

Bruce, Annika, Kim and Jenny sit together at the train station for the North Shore Scenic Railroad just before going on a train ride in 2011.

Bruce and Jenny stand on either side of Annika, who is holding her high school diploma while wearing a cap and gown after her graduation ceremony in 2010.

Bruce and Kim enjoy the slide at the Nordic Center in 2010.

Bruce pulls Kim on a toddler sled up the "hill" in the backyard during her first time sledding in 2010.

Bruce smiles while holding Kim while sledding with her for the first time in the backyard in 2010.

1995-2009

Bruce looks at baby Kim while they both lay on the floor Jenny's parent's RV while visiting family in Arizona in 2009.

Bruce and Sandy, Jenny's Mom, sit together on a couch in Sandy's RV while Kim is being held in Grandma Sandy's lap.

Annika, Bruce, Jenny, Kim, Sandy, Melody, Kalilah, and Glen smile together during a family trip in Arizona in 2009.

Bruce looks lovingly at Kim while holding her just after she was born in 2009.

Jenny and Bruce make silly faces while eating at Perkin's on Thanksgiving, after volunteering at the DECC in 2008.

Bruce sits and stares off into the distance with Charlie the dog sitting next to him on a pontoon on a lake in Minnesota in 2007.

Bruce and Jenny smile as they eat together during their wedding weekend in Colorado in 2000.

Bruce makes Annika laugh at his swollen lip after being stung by a wasp that had flown into a soda he left unattended during a family camping trip in the '90s.

Jenny, Bruce, and Annika - dressed in formal attire - pose together during Bruce's brother's wedding in the '90s.

Bruce, Charles, Louise, and Craig - dressed in formal attire - smile together on Craig's wedding day in the '90s.

Bruce and Annika sit together on a stone wall while visiting the Royal Gorge Canyon in Colorado in the '90s.

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