We've been busy lil buggers

Wow.  July is totally slipping right past me!  It feels like it should still be the middle of June.  Did I miss a month somehow?  The summer goes by way to quickly!

Well, let's try to play a little catch up!  We've been traveling.  To Des Moines, Galesburg and home again and then I took a girl's trip to the Dells.  And next week Charlie and I will be heading back down to Des Moines.  Seems like we are gone more than we are home lately and that's okay b/c it means we are busy out having fun and making the most of the summer!

So what else have we been up to?  Well, in our free time we've been:

Coloring

Playing in our tunnel, popping out the end and saying "ta-da"!

Practicing our couch gymnastics

Snuggling up on Brayden

Napping

Enjoying the lake and boating

Perfecting our "tans"

Dancing

Celebrating

Playing in our new sandbox (thanks Dada!)

Making sidewalk art

And hanging w/ the neighbors

What could be better?  We've got it pretty damn good.

Cheers!
Kel

(I'll try to get back to more regular posting, but no promises.)

Spoiled lil Charlie

We traveled down to Galesburg last weekend so Charlie could celebrate her birthday with the rest of her family that couldn't make it up here for her party.  We took her out for her 3rd boat ride and she loved it again.  She's a water baby for sure!

Then she got another smash cake to tear into.  This time it was white cake instead of chocolate and she seemed to like it just as much.  Sugar is sugar right?  She definitely needed another bath after that!

I got to go golfing with my mother in law for the first time in 2 years and I did pretty good for not having played for so long.  It was a lot of fun to get out there!

We got back late Monday night and are recuperating from all the activity! Up this weekend is our kitchen remodel! We ordered new cabinets over 2 weeks ago and they finally came in last week so now we have to tear out the old ones to put the new ones in. I can't wait! I will post pics but just so you can see how badly we need it, here is a picture of what the cabinets looked like when we moved in

And here is a pic of what it currently looks like since I painted it a couple years ago.  I swear the only thing holding these cabinets together are the thousands of layers of paint on them.  They are bad!!!  There is also NO counter top space to work with.  The cabinets we currently have are hung too low and stick out too far.  The new ones will be hung at the appropriate height and go all the way up to the ceiling so that we'll be able to use the counter space underneath them.  We also are going to relocate the sink to be at a diagonal in the corner so we'll have a long piece of counter top to be able to cook on.  (Not that I cook a lot.  Ha!)  We also ordered a tall pantry type of cabinet for next to the stove and an over the stove cabinet that we will hand a wall mounted microwave under.  So that will give our small kitchen more room as well.  I'm totally stoked to get this done.  It's way overdue!

Bring it on!!!

Good news, everybody, we're extending arts and crafts time by four hours today.

Last weekend was lazy and it was a good thing we didn't have any traveling plans b/c I got sick. Summertime sickness blows. You are tired and grumpy and just want to be able to enjoy the weather but don't feel up to it. Prior to me getting sick though I did get to go do something I've never done before! I got to see how the pros do it.

That's right. My good friend, Drew came up to town and lucky me, he had an extra ticket to the PGA. We saw Tiger, Ernie, Vijay, Zach, Phil, Vang and all those guys who are so awesome at getting it in the hole. :) I must say that Tiger is a lot bigger in person than I thought he would be. Hunka-dunk. It was a very cool experience and I'm glad Drew took my ass along! Thanks D ~ You rule!

Since I sat on my sick ass ALL day Saturday I was feeling a wee bit more energized on Sunday and joined the hubs and some other friends of ours on a day long motorcycle cruise through Western Wisconsin. It is really gorgeous all along the river and we had a great time in beautiful weather riding and stopping for some beverages along the way. It's a great way to enjoy a lazy Sunday!

This weekend takes us to the wonderful state of Illinois. Wade will be racing in Peoria while I will be maxin and relaxin w/ the families. My parents, sis and Todd are all joining us at my MIL's abode. We'll be cruising the lake, golfing and oh yeah, drinking. Can't leave that out! :) So here's to hoping the weather is grand b/c my goals this weekend are:

• To tan my stomach (which hasn't seen the sun yet this summer)


• Hope that I learned something from the pros and my golf game miraculously improves


• Wear my new bathing suit that I purchased (with your input!)


• Drink until I can't feel feelings anymore! Yay!


• Spend some QT w/ the fam and relax, relax, relax!

So my internets friends, what fantabulous plans do you all have going on for the weekend? Anything fun?

A good weekend for the fair, a booze cruise and, oh yeah, puking at the table in front of my friends

Oh yes, what a weekend we had. It started out very promising. Wonderful weather for attending the MN State Fair. We headed down on Friday night for some fried food and beers accompanied by the entertainment of watching the “fair folk”. I consumed an over abundance of cheese curds and some fried pickles, drank a few brews, played 2 midway games and by then we were bored. The people watching was fairly boring this year for some reason. I kept wondering why every chick I saw was dressed like they are going to go clubbing downtown? Didn’t they realize they were at the FAIR? So we headed home and had a few more brews, Wade tried to get us to watch Dolemite (see previous post on how I felt about that movie) and then we called it a night. All in all, a nice night w/ a general lack of excitement, but it was still fun.

Saturday was promising to be a fun time. We did some housework during the afternoon (not the fun part) and then got ready for the booze cruise. Zach, a friend of mine since elementary school, invited us to join him and some other friends on Lake Minnetonka for a 3 hour cruise around the lake. I was really looking forward to this since I’ve never been on one and have been wanting to since we moved up here 3 years ago. The night was perfect for it too. We met some new people who were all very nice and fun to talk with and then decided to continue the booze fest downtown. Zach graciously offered us his 2nd parking spot in the enclosed garage at his condo downtown and we headed out. This is where things get fuzzy for me. Considering I had already consumed a number of drinks on the booze cruise I was feeling pretty good, and I think I only tripped once while walking from Zach’s to the bar, not too bad considering the heels I was wearing. We get to the bar and I was having a blast. And things were going great. And then the shots were ordered. Who ordered me the first shot is a hazy memory. I can’t really recall. But I do remember gagging to keep it down. This should have been my first indication to stop. Instead I ordered myself a new drink to get the taste of that nasty shot out of my mouth. By this time EVERYONE in the bar is my new BFF. And lucky me, one of my new BFF decides to order me another shot. Why? Why? Why? But the better question is why did I take it? Well, in actuality, I only took ½ of it. It was huge and nasty, and I about puked when I took it. So I apologized to my new BFF and told him I couldn’t finish it unless he wanted to see what the insides of my stomach looked like. He agreed that he did not want to see that, so I thanked him and went back to my table. Little did I realize that within the next 15-20 minutes my whole table would get to see that not so pleasant site.

(I apologize before hand b/c the next part of this story is disgusting, I am humiliated by it, and am vowing to never have it happen again. I’m really not even sure why I am divulging this to you all, but it is the truth. I am a lush and a bad one at that.)

As I am sitting at the table I suddenly get hot; I mean sweating, gross hot. My mouth started watering and I’m pretty sure my face turned an unattractive shade of white. I knew I was going to hurl. I also knew there was no way I could make it all the way downstairs to the bathroom in time (seriously, who makes a bar w/ the bathroom all the way in the basement???). In that nano-second before my stomach contents came out to play I determined I would rather toss my cookies into an empty cup sitting at our table than in the stairwell where it would most likely end up on some poor disgusted bar patron. So I grabbed a cup, turned to my side, and let it fly. In that second I’m sure poor Zach regretted inviting me along that night and I’m also sure Wade regretted ever marrying me. How humiliating. Thank God I couldn’t see my friends faces (most of whom I had just met that night) as I tossed my cookies at the table. I’m sure most of them looked like this:

I don’t really remember leaving the bar at that point. I’m sure Wade grabbed me as fast as he could and took me out of there. We found a cab and headed home. Being the gracious pukee that I am, I continued to get sick while in the cab but I made sure every last drop of it went outside the car. I know the driver HATED me; however he should have been pleased that none of it ended up inside the car. You are welcome Mr. Cabbie.

Wade says I drink like a college freshman. I disagree with that though. I never did throw up in a cup at the bar my freshman year. Although it would have been much more acceptable had I done it back then rather than 10 years later. What a bad night it ended up being. To those of you who had to witness that unbelievably disgusting site, I apologize. A very deep down, honest apology. And Zach, should you ever consider inviting us out sometime again please realize, that’s not in my normal routine.

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In other, less mortifying news, we got the bench seat built on the deck. And when I say we, I mean Wade. Yay Wade! Now it just needs to be stained to match the rest of the deck and we’ll be set. The railing is going to wait until next year. It’s not even required for code, however we thought w/ all our drunk friends (i.e.: ME) we’d want something to stop their fall over the 2 foot edge. Safety first!