Football

If you never want to hear your kid say "There's nothing to do", sign them up for football. Since August 2nd, our life has been football everyday. Just like work is daily, it should be no big deal but football doesn't always stick to it's schedule - and if it rains it throws it off even more! If you know me, you know I'm having a bit of a hard time adjusting to the flexibility of time. Last minute time changes is not my cup of tea and I like dinner time with the whole family.

This being said, Scott is enjoying the sport so far. This is his first year playing organized football. He likes playing street football with his friends so he decided to join and wouldn't you know it, none of his friends are on his team, bummer!

The picture with his helmet is his practice uniform and the other is his Game Day uniform. You would think with all this fancy stuff he was in the NFL. Team pictures were Sunday, I'm guessing they schedule these right away so the kids don't look beat up before the season starts. In the first week of practice Scott dropped 5 lbs. I should have did the practices with him!

To make things more exciting I volunteered to be Homecoming Chairman. I thought this was a great idea since you must volunteer and homecoming was scheduled for the last weekend in August. This way it would be out of the way for when I start my classes for Fall semester. WRONG!!! Homecoming was rescheduled for the end of September. Another plan failed. Oh well, I meet with my committee tonight and hope we can get organized before the chaos of school begins. We all start August 23rd.

Mojo

If you are still curious with the happenings of our dog Mojo, don't forget to check out his blog at

http://mojosspot.blogspot.com/

July Birthdays!

July is when Scott and Mark's birthdays are. We celebrated Mark's by going to dinner and coming home to a small cake I picked up from the store. It was the perfect size. Of course, this year was not half as fun as last year!

We celebrated Scott's birthday (again!) when we got home from vacation. We had Mark's siblings, parents, my Mom and brother Steve with his family over for some hamburger and dogs. The Seymours were still on vacation. This year was a little more exciting since Scott turned 13 on the 13th (Golden!). The cake was a yummy fudge frosted cake that Mark picked up for me!

Scott was sweet to let his cousin Seth sit on his lap while we sang happy birthday.

Scott also had his friend, Jacob over for the festivities. Note no decor this year. Scott asked me to keep it simple. I love that boy!

Vacation (Part 4)

The Seymours stopped by on a beautiful day! We had fun tube'n and stopping on a sand bar to swim. (Doesn't Mike look like a tourist in this picture? LOL!)

The rest of the week flew by, but we had fun. The big boys decided it was time for them to ski and we were all so impressed.

People often ask when we come back from vacation if we caught any muskie. This year we can say "Yes". Of course the true answer is "Yes, we caught a musky sleeping on our beach!". This poor guy was injured by a boat prop and washed ashore over night,. Let me tell you that bad boy stunk! Thank goodness the guys had trash duty. They actually took it out on the boat and left it on an island for the other birds/animals to feed on.

All and all we had a fabulous vacation and can't wait to do it again!

Vacation (Part 3)

During week two we were joined by the Brackin family and the Kevin Pries family, minus their sons. We had some more fun while the Erickson's went off to Minnesota to finish out their vacation.

Kayaking was the sport of this summer vacation. Uncle Mike lead the way and everyone who tried it loved it. Catie drove up from Madison for an afternoon. It was a great surprise!

We had a lot of firsts this vacation. Besides Grace's first time minature golfing and go-carting, Scott did horseback riding (Grace too), kayaking and he tried water skiing. He did really well for his first time trying. Thanks to his uncles who were a great help and source of knowledge!

Of course, not all of the wild life happened on the lake. We did see some beautiful eagles, loons and deer. (Yes, I know the middle picure is a butterfly - I couldn't find my loon picture!)

Oh vacation is not over yet! The Seymours were up North too.

Vacation (Part 2)

We were so happy that the Erickson family was up in the North Woods with us our first week this year. Well, until Grace showed us all up by catching more than 40 fish in one afternoon. No joke, this girl has the touch!


Grace with one of the many fish she caught. She caught them so fast that we had to tag team to keep up with her. I would bait her hook and Scott would remove the fish. We did this, while Annabelle was trying to keep up. Same spot but Grace just had the touch, or was it her lucky Barbie fishing pole? (I can see it now, Mark shopping for a Barbie pole his size!)

Of course these cousins had fun hanging out too! For Scott's 13th birthday we went minature golfing and go carting! It was Grace's first time doing both and I'd have to say she had a great time.

Vacation (Part 1)

Another great year in Minocqua, Wisconsin. I could really live there. We had two weeks of fun and family time.


We all did some fishing, but of course Mark caught the most and the biggest! I personally enjoyed lounging in the lake. Weather was beautiful with boughts of rain, but really no complaints.

Mojo even got to have some fun in the lake. He never got so far as actually swimming but at least we got him to go and stay in the water this year!