Lord Help Me! Sam's 21!!!!!

After dinner at Grizzly's.

Sam and Sonja

Sam and Matt

Labor Day

Sunday of Labor Day weekend, Bobber asked what I wanted to do. But, he and Alex were not very receptive to my ideas so I asked what they wanted to do waited for a while and then made them get in the car without telling them where we were going. I had decided it was just easier for me to decide what I wanted to do and do it than tell them and listen to the arguments. So, here's what we did. We had lunch at Noodles & Company (my choice), we looked at cars (Bob's idea), played mini-golf and a few games at Action City (Alex's idea for games, mine for golf), drove up to Bloomer to look at cars (we were only 12 miles away from Irvine at this point), went to see the animals at Irvine (my choice) and went for ice cream at Olson's Ice Cream in Chippewa (everybody's idea). And, when we thought the day was done, we had dinner with my mom at our house. Overall it was a fun day and since they never knew where we were going, it was very peaceful!

Alex with Bob teeing off in the background.

I had a Hole-in-One on hole #2

Alex and I at Irvine

First Day of School - 4th Grade

Our big Monkey is now a big 4th grader!!!! Here she is on the first day of school, the family day.

Colts vs Packers

We attended the Packers/Colts preseason game on Thursday, August 26th. We left Eau Claire shortly before 2 and returned at 2:15. It was a long day Friday! The game was amazing but too difficult for Sam and I. We decided never to go to a game like this again where you are cheering for both teams. Plus we took an awful lot of crap from people in the stands. Apparently, you're not allowed to cheer for both teams. And, I thought Viking fans were bad. They were nothing compared to the rude, nasty people in Green Bay. Congratulations Packer Fans! You should all be very proud of yourselves!!!!! I, however, will continue to cheer for both mainly because I can!! The rest of you closed-minded fans can bite me!

Hmm.... Tailgate food. The plan was to make chicken kabobs but after some difficulties with the skewers, including skewering myself, I switched to packets containing mushrooms, onions, green peppers and chicken. The baby red potatoes cooperated with their skewering. I precooked the chicken and potatoes so they just had to be heated. The chicken was marinated with an Italian Beer marinade. Yummy.

I bet you didn't know a cheesehead doubled as a table did you?

Peyton

Chuckie Baby

Me and Denise

Me and Bobber

Our rowdy group. Scott, Denise, Jen, Sam, Bob and Donna (aka my mom) :)

Roadtrip!!!!

Here's the beginning and the end of our road trip to see the Indianapolis Colts Training Camp!!! Boy it was hot but we sure had fun. Ok, I had more fun than Alex as she would probably tell you she didn't have any fun. She would be lying as you will see if you check out the entries below. Be forewarned, they are picture heavy!

Waiting at the light to go onto North Crossing.

On the way back, sitting in Tomah.