Pictures of a great day! Hope you had fun if you were there, and if you weren't...you were in our thoughts and prayers.

My budding scientist.....a mother can hope.

Fall stands for football...

Welcome to our Friday nights and Saturday mornings. Blake played on varsity this Friday night against LinMar and JV on Saturday. It's such an emotional game, mostly for the parents I think and fun finding out those moms who you thought were so polite and timid are really crazed fans who would rush the field if they could to tell everyone how great THEIR son is and how proud they are of them. It was the first time we had to split up for someone to watch Blake while the other went with Jacob to soccer. To add to the fun, we watched Iowa get beat by Iowa State (we know who you are who are glad) and tried to slip in watching the Cubs beat the Cardinals at the same time (yea! Cubs win, Cubs win). I wonder what those families that don't do sports do on Saturdays in the fall? Well, they could go garage saleing, we found a couple of bargains doing that too in our free time! It's a lot of fun though, that senior year goes really fast for all of us, hmm... maybe we should be looking at colleges soon.

And the Fun Begins...

Well, it's that time of year, when life hits full speed. After a fun tailgate (yes we tailgate for high school games) Friday night, Blake played in the JV game Saturday and had quite a day, a 60 yard kickoff return, a touch down, and an interception. It's upclose and personal for the fans and we yelled for all we were worth! Jacob started soccer (we love purple!) All the years of the beehive(you soccer parents know what I mean) we're starting to see progress. He's playing with all his friends and the parents have fun too.
Sunday, we met at Gramma and Grandpa's house to see our great nieces and nephews. Why are there so many? After all, they are GREAT nieces and nephews.W e all came to see the ones from Montana who told us stories of working on their ranch and driving 5 miles to get on the bus for school where the class size is 5 for Kindergarten. It's Big Sky country, and beautiful! Wish it was closer for us all to enjoy with them.

We hope to not be so busy this fall that we forget to praise God and grow in his grace.

The Tag's Been Passed...

Vicki tagged me not knowing my middle name is ELIZABETH! Yikes! So here goes...

You have to post these rules before you give the facts.
1) Players, you must list one fact that is somehow relevant to your life for each letter of your middle name. If you don't have a middle name, use the middle name that you wish you had.
2) When tagged, you need to write your own blog post containing your own middle name facts.
3) At the end of your blog post, you need to choose one person for each letter of your middle name to tag. Don't forget to leave a comment telling them that they're tagged and to read your blog.

E - Eager to learn from God
L- Love put into what I do is more important than how much I do.
I- Interested in lots of STUFF
Z- Zinnias - I have lots of them in my garden this year, very bright!
A- Accomodating
B- Bisons, beavers, bats, just to name a few things Jacob and I
saw at the dead animal zoo yesterday.
E- Expert at nothing, jack of many trades instead
T- Tapioca pudding, yes I do like it, anyone else?
H- Hebrew 13:5 - a favorite verse

The only people I know that post have already, I'll send it along if I hear of more.

Welcome To The Family...

August 4th, Laura and Adam got married. It was a full and fun week. Their friends showed up a few days earlier and the celebration didn't slow down til Sunday. There were people from all over the country and few from out of the country. The guys went to The Field of Dreams and paintballed. The girls had lunch and had a party of their own. Rehearsal dinner was nice with lots of great speeches and great food. Saturday's ceremony had lots of fun pictures, great singing from Paul and Austin, with great guitar playing from Blake. The party at Holiday Inn was a blast starting with the Iowa Fight song and continued with great food and more speeches. There was lots of dancing with some new things never seen before by man! A good time was had by all, we thought we'd share some photos with you. We'll add more as we get them.

A Weekend of Non Labor...

We had quite a weekend. Friday we went to Loras College in Dubuque to watch Blake play football. We stayed with our niece and her husband, then continued up to Minneapolis to see Laura and Adam and their new place. We had a fun time enjoying the lakes, celebrating Adam's birthday, and seeing the Twins play. We even managed to get Blake's senior pictures taken too!
The kids all had fun hanging out together and getting very little sleep.