Tyson and I drove to North Dakota this past weekend for my All School Class Reunion. For those of you who don't know - I'm from Tuttle North Dakota - population 106 (in 2000 so it's smaller now). Anyway the Tuttle School officially closed after the 2007 school year because it was getting SO small. The town decided to auction off all the school supplies and have a huge celebration for everyone who graduated from there. There were 14 people in my graduating class and we had a pretty good turn out for our class at the reunion - about 6 of us came! Anyway, it was So much fun to be back (well, I had fun, Tyson tolerated it!! Hey, he got to laugh silently in his head every time he met someone new and heard their North Dakota accent!) I didn't take very many pictures of my class mates and I wish I had, but Dad and Tyson were already teasing me for all the the other pictures I took! Anyway, it was good to be back in Tuttle, visit the farm and hang out with Dad's family - sorry for all of you who I didn't get to see, but we were only in ND for Friday and Saturday. Yep, we are totally crazy for driving that far for such a short time, but it was fun - Thanks Tyson for trying to understand the small town connection!
We went shooting with Mom, Dad and my brother Stuart Friday night
I guess this was my mom's first time Ever shooting a gun! After a few kind of scary tries she actually hit a pop bottle!! Way to go Mom!!
This is me with Mrs. Morrison (the band and Choir teacher) and two of my class members Leesa Jones and Tanna Richard.
The Tuttle Post Office burned down a few months ago - it's really sad to see the school closing and some of the buildings dying - but hey, we do have a new grocery store!
Inside the Post Office
The famous BSer bar in Tuttle - get it?? Tyson had to take this picture:)
Dad and Tyson in one of the elementary rooms looking at maps from the early 1400's :) j/k
The library - they didn't sell the books because they're donating them to another school that was destroyed by a tornado.
Dad and Tyson in the 5th and 6th grade room - the smell brought back so many memories!
This is the view of practically the whole town from the high school office window - yeah, there was no escaping or cutting class here - they knew you were gone 3.5 minutes after school started!
The one hall way in the high school side is lined with each year's graduating class - here's mine - I told you there were only 14 of us and 4 were from another town!!
Our school song - this bad boy has had it's words changed so many times it's not even funny. (the school was combined with like six other schools for sports and music!)
They decorated the gym for one last prom - yeah right - lets just say, we did not go to this thing!
the "huge" playground - yeah if you click on this picture to enlarge it, you will see the yellow slide at the end of the jungle gym - when I was in elementary school I suddenly got this really bright idea in my head at recess that it would be really cool if I did a bunch of somersaults down the slide - yeah - that didn't go so well - it was probably the first really stupid career move I ever made!!
The Tuttle School - the taller part was the elementary side (K-6) and the longer side is the high school side (7-12th). :)
This is for our exchange student Kanako - yep, the barn finally fell down!!
Our mailbox for the farm - they didn't get street addresses until about 10 years ago and the street signs just came a little while ago - note the Huge address - in the middle of no where!!!
looking at our farm 1 1/2 miles in the distance - yes, our mail box is that far away.
our street sign
Tyson with a horse my uncle Roger brought out to the farm
The barn - poor thing has been through several tornadoes and prairie hurricanes
looking at the house and the quanset
My 20 week pregnancy picture - AND this is the exact spot I was born 30 years ago in my parents pick up truck on the way to the hospital in - they made it 8 miles from the farm!!!
These videos are of the school auction in the gym and the Elementary and High School sides of the school - sorry I missed some rooms and the cafeteria - you're not missing much - Tyson was actually Shocked when he went into the cafeteria - it's not much bigger than some of the class rooms!!! Well, that was our trip - hope you enjoyed your tour of Tuttle!!!
We went shooting with Mom, Dad and my brother Stuart Friday night
I guess this was my mom's first time Ever shooting a gun! After a few kind of scary tries she actually hit a pop bottle!! Way to go Mom!!
This is me with Mrs. Morrison (the band and Choir teacher) and two of my class members Leesa Jones and Tanna Richard. The Tuttle Post Office burned down a few months ago - it's really sad to see the school closing and some of the buildings dying - but hey, we do have a new grocery store!
Inside the Post Office
The famous BSer bar in Tuttle - get it?? Tyson had to take this picture:)
Dad and Tyson in one of the elementary rooms looking at maps from the early 1400's :) j/k
The library - they didn't sell the books because they're donating them to another school that was destroyed by a tornado.
Dad and Tyson in the 5th and 6th grade room - the smell brought back so many memories!
This is the view of practically the whole town from the high school office window - yeah, there was no escaping or cutting class here - they knew you were gone 3.5 minutes after school started!
The one hall way in the high school side is lined with each year's graduating class - here's mine - I told you there were only 14 of us and 4 were from another town!!
Our school song - this bad boy has had it's words changed so many times it's not even funny. (the school was combined with like six other schools for sports and music!)
They decorated the gym for one last prom - yeah right - lets just say, we did not go to this thing!
the "huge" playground - yeah if you click on this picture to enlarge it, you will see the yellow slide at the end of the jungle gym - when I was in elementary school I suddenly got this really bright idea in my head at recess that it would be really cool if I did a bunch of somersaults down the slide - yeah - that didn't go so well - it was probably the first really stupid career move I ever made!!
The Tuttle School - the taller part was the elementary side (K-6) and the longer side is the high school side (7-12th). :)
This is for our exchange student Kanako - yep, the barn finally fell down!!
Our mailbox for the farm - they didn't get street addresses until about 10 years ago and the street signs just came a little while ago - note the Huge address - in the middle of no where!!!
looking at our farm 1 1/2 miles in the distance - yes, our mail box is that far away.
our street sign
Tyson with a horse my uncle Roger brought out to the farm
The barn - poor thing has been through several tornadoes and prairie hurricanes
looking at the house and the quanset
My 20 week pregnancy picture - AND this is the exact spot I was born 30 years ago in my parents pick up truck on the way to the hospital in - they made it 8 miles from the farm!!!
These videos are of the school auction in the gym and the Elementary and High School sides of the school - sorry I missed some rooms and the cafeteria - you're not missing much - Tyson was actually Shocked when he went into the cafeteria - it's not much bigger than some of the class rooms!!! Well, that was our trip - hope you enjoyed your tour of Tuttle!!!
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Nice post! I've tried to e-mail you some pictures today but apparently my computer is having issues...I'll try again soon.
the last video let us hear some of the ND accents... you should have stood by them closer to get a better recording! Ha ha ha! Did you by chance get a good picture of my class photo too or anything else??
Yeah - I wish I would have recorded uncle LeRoy:) Marsha's is pretty good too, but it's more like Wisconsonish! I didn't take a picture of your class - sorry.
They totally mispelled the sign in front of the post office! Silly rurals!
Ha Ha Ha!!!! I didn't even notice!! How embarrasing!!
Thanks for posting all the pictures. So fun to look at them. Thanks again for coming home...it was sooooo good to be with you and Tyson!!!!! Much love
It is really nice to see all of these pictures and remember when I was there. I enjoyed the town ones, and also the ones from the farm... and Obviosly it is always great to see all of you at the pictures!!!
I am glad you are having fun, and look great!
Greetings and love, Joyce.
Wow, lots of memories. Thanks for this post, they are the first pix I've seen of the reunion. I'm embarrassed to say that watching the videos made me cry... I'm blaming the fetus! And the fact that I wanted to be there and couldn't. Now Jason can see I'm serious about the one-hallway thing!
Oh man, that brings back memories of my senior year at a military school in Germany. 250 kids, K-12, with 18 Seniors. Well, I think we actually ended up with 20 at the end of the year. But yeah, so few that all of our names were listed on the graduation announcements. That school doesn't exist anymore either. So, how are you? How's the pregnancy going???
The funny thing is Kim - our graduation program had all our names plus all the graduating 8th graders names as well!!
The pregnancy is actually going really well - I feel pretty normal, except my back is starting to get sore when I lay down, so I don't sleep very well - oh well, what do ya do!
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