Are you ready for some football?

God, she makes me smile.  :)

I have a love/hate relationship with football.  I love the sport, I hate that it means winter will be here in no time flat.  That being said, right now I'm loving it b/c the weather is still beautiful and I love catching the Cyclones on Saturday and the NFL teams on Sunday! 

Last weekend the Cyclones beat the Hawks away from home!  This was incredible!  The game was great (although both teams played sloppy)!  Here's a pic of Charlie in her ISU gear.  Cutest little Cyclone ever!

Go ISU!!!

Charlie got her first black eye at daycare last week.  When I went to pick her up it was just a goose egg on her brow bone and it's now completely black, blue and green.  Pretty nasty looking!  They said she was walking and just tripped over her own two feet!  I find that very easy to believe b/c honestly I'm surprised this is her first black eye w/ how often she falls and what a klutz she is.  What can I say?  She takes after me in the gracefulness category (or lack thereof).  Ha!

I started my new job last Wednesday and although I think I'm going to really like it once I get trained and comfortable with it I'm not liking my commute home.  It means less time with Charlie which makes me sad.  The evenings fly by when I don't even get home until almost 6 and Charlie goes to bed around 8-8:30.  I guess I can just say I've been spoiled.  At my old job I had a 5 minute commute.  It was literally 1 mile from our house.  I could have walked/rode my bike there (but never did b/c I'm a lazy terd).  So the 45 min drive home from my new job is killing me.  I'll get over it but I just wanted to complain about it.  :)

Nothing much else to report.  We've been having fun like normal.  We took Charlie on her first golf game.  She loved the cart and running around on the greens! 

We also hit up a block party on Sunday and Charlie had an absolute BLAST dancing to the bands.  She even had a little fan club who cheered her on and kept telling me how adorable she was.  As a mom, I'll listen to people tell me how cute they think my daughter is anytime b/c I agree!  :)

Happy Monday!  We're one day closer to the weekend!

Cheers!
~Kel

A Little B-day Boogy-ing

A little late update on Wade’s b-day weekend spent in G-burg…

We took off Friday (the 1st) and Monday (the 4th) to make a long b-day weekend for Wade. Wade raced Friday and Saturday nights and was really excited to be able to race on “good” tracks finally. He says all the tracks up here are shitty. On Friday night he definitely had the largest fan club in attendance. Basically his whole family was there to cheer him on and it was great to get to see all of them. And lucky for us, it was also the Knox County Fair, so we got to enjoy the beer tent as well as his race.

Me & Kara in the beer tent

Wendy, Lance & I all look so cool!

Sam's the ladies man!

He raced quite well Friday night, but he did even better on Saturday when no one was there to cheer him on except his racing buds, Lance and Rick. Must have been too much pressure w/ everyone there!

Wade's youngest race fan, Gage (what a cutie!)

While he was busy racing we hit the lake. Milly, Kara and I enjoyed cruising around and taking a dip at the shallow area. Kobe and Otis on the other hand hated it.

The weather was picture perfect the entire weekend! We couldn’t have asked for any better. Wendy, Z and Bo Naughty joined us out on the boat on Saturday. Bo got a soaking and he was quite pissed. But it was fun to watch him swim in his life preserver.

Kobe did not care for the life preserver either!We all had a blast!

Sunday morning we got to golf 9 holes and my game improved from last time, (thankfully!), but it still pretty much sucked. The improvement must have been b/c of my new golf glove. I’m sure of it! After golfing Kara, Wade and I headed to his dad’s house for a family pool party. Good food, good drinks and good water volleyball! We had a lot of fun getting to see all the nieces and nephew. They’re getting so dang tall! They TOWER over me!

It was a great long weekend and I definitely didn’t want to go back to work Tuesday, but then again, when do I want to go back to work??? Gotta pay da bills tho, yo!

(Ah, the life of a dog...)

This last weekend was Brad & Erika’s MN reception at Bryant Lake Park. It was an absolutely gorgeous day! It turned out perfectly. Afterwards we all headed out to Uptown Drink and got some food and had a great night out. We played some Big Buck Hunter, which I LOVE! Here are some funny pics from that night out. It was a lot of fun.

Kara & her fried walleye fingers (they were pretty gross)

Big Buck Hunter - I rule!
Jenny shooting Kara cause she looks like a tard (ok, sorry that wasn't very nice) :)
Kara trying to be as good of a buck hunter as I am. :)
Double barrels Wade
One of the only normal pics of the night :)

Coming up this weekend we will be going on a motorcycle ride w/ some friends all day Saturday and hitting the bars along the way. Then on Sunday we get to go to Valley Fair for Wade’s company outing. Valley Fair is always a good time. I love the Steel Venom ride! I swear my stomach comes out my throat and that is always fun!

Adieu!

Deck Party USA!

We had an impromptu deck "christening" Thursday night after we had gotten the boards up along the side of the house. Small area of the deck but we were able to fit 8 people and 3 dogs on it no prob! :)

Wade put the final board on about 15 minutes before my parents and Kara arrived. Just in time. We promptly put it to use. Margaritas and beers served on the deck all night. Great time w/ family, friends and neighbors.

Saturday we woke up early for some tee times. I don't normally even wake up this early during the week! Played the absolute shittiest game I've ever played but had a lot of fun doing it. It was the Wessels vs. the Allen's and I'm sorry to say that I helped the Allen team lose. Oops. But considering I hadn't played since last summer it wasn't too awfully bad. :) We then went to Dick's Sporting Goods to look at their golf gear and I got myself a new glove. This will definitely help my game. (Yeah, right...)

After that we were all starving for lunch so we headed downtown for a little sight seeing and some lunch outdoors in the gorgeous weather. We walked past the Mill City Ruins and across the pedestrian bridge crossing the Mississippi River to eat at Tuggs on their awesome patio. The view is great of the river and downtown and the food was delish! Got some state fair cheese curds (they are my weakness) and a great burger. They also have a great rum runner (Tuggs Tornado). Wade got a burger w/ cheese, hash browns and bacon on top of it. I about died of heart failure just looking at the thing. He couldn't finish it which is probably a very good thing.

Close up of Wade's heart attack burger

Wade contemplating how much he can eat
Kara & Dad
Me & Mom

Say "cheese" Kara!

The crew heading back to the cars after lunch

We thought this tree looked like a butt crack. We are so super duper mature. :)

We then headed home to clean up and enjoy the weather some more out on our deck. Some friends and neighbors stopped by and the grilling began. Not sure how many pigs had to perish for us to have all this food, but boy was it tasty.

We started a fire and played some corn hole. What a great night.

Liv is "this big" :)

Eating the tasty food

Enjoying some frosty beverages
Our new deck rules!

This week we have Wade's 29th b-day to celebrate on Thursday. Brad and Erika are going to grill out with us tomorrow night to celebrate since we have volleyball on Wed and are heading to G-burg on Thurs. Wade is anxious to get to Illinois for some quality racing this Fri and Sat and Kara and I are anxious to hit the lake!

Check ya later!