Another Patio Party w/Band '10

Our second patio party went well ... until the cops showed up. More on that in a mintue.

The party officially started with a few golfers. 5 to be exact. They made good use of the 4-5 holes that are on our side of the street. I think they played the same 4-5 holes at least 3 times making beer pit stops at our back yard each time them pasted. Each time they passed they parked the carts at the edge of the yard. Acaica and her friend went out to do a little test driving ....

The Badgers started around 2:30p - about the same time the first wave of food was served. They pulled out the win (one point) after a pretty could go either way game.



We had a band play (Merge Left). They were AWESOME!! Rock covers! Songs we all knew. Very cool. We had called and invited and asked all our neighbors if the band would be a problem and they all said go for it. We called the local police and they said as long as the neighbors are fine there should not be a problem. They started playing around 5p. About an hour later ... the first cop shows up. He said a neighbor complained. I was a bit surprised given that half the neighbors were out back and the rest had given us their blessings. Turns out it was the neighbors on the other side of the golf course that were upset. The cop asked how long we planned on having them play. We explained it would not go later then 7:30p. He said fine, just turn it down. So we did but apparently that was not good enough for said neighbors. The cops came back around 6:50p. Seems they could not stand it for another 40 minutes. So, the band packed up and we continued the party with our 4 blasting radio speakers.











Anyway - it was still cool. The food was all good. The fire pit was rocking again as well. Acacia found these ginormous marshmellows for s'mores that proved to actually be too much marshmellow. But, they still got eaten!!! Go figure! mmmmmmmmm!!


















Sorry! Sound quality not soooooo good. :(

Some Soccer '10

The new soccer season started up with games starting last week end. Acacia is now on an all girls team. Their first game they got crushed 0-8 because the girls were making really dumb mistakes (centering the ball in front of their own goal ALL the time). Acacia was really discouraged and actually said she would rather be back on the boys team as at least they knew how to play. Coach added another practice to the week and they have had 2 more games. A tie and lost again but it was 1-3. They are playing MUCH better now. You can hear them on the field yelling at each other to correct the mistakes they make and also cheering each other on when they make good plays. I think they will end up being a pretty strong team.




black team






blue team








light blue team







another black team



















Chris' team actually plays pretty well but I only have the team photos. Sorry! No action shots. But, as you can see by how Chris is in the team photos - you should be able to tell how he is on the field.


















Got some actions shots ....






SWEET! He got a goal!!

Chris' Front Teeth '10

Gross. Disgusting. Nasty. That is all I have to say about kids and their loose teeth. I can't stand it. So, according to a past post Chris lost his first front tooth a couple weeks ago. To read about this trauma refer back a couple posts. Today's post is about the second front tooth. A few days after his first tooth came out he was doing some kind of crazy made up karate/power ranger/acrobatic routine and managed to kick the second tooth all but out. I mean, he literally managed to get some part of his leg/foot right up into his mouth and knock that dang thing loose. So for about 2 weeks he was twisting and turning this thing and it just kept hanging on by the one corner ... totally grossing me out. So I took the camera out and started snappy a few off.

















Then told him to sit down and finish eating. He took one bite and out it came! Of course there was teeny tiny bit of blood. This caused mass panic. He (once again) is sure he will most certainly bleed to death. He spent about 3 minutes in the bathroom crying and then finally came out and was fine.

















He started telling us what he was sure the tooth fairy would bring him (a new Wii game). In case you don't know ... a Wii game cost $20-$50 bucks. He went to bed and I dug up two perfectly crisp $1 bills and 2 cool gold one dollar coins (total $4) and left it under his pillow. The daddy tooth fairy went in the next morning and took the bills and one of coins and replaced them with a $5!

When Chris came in to my room ready for school he did not say anything about the tooth fairy coming so I asked. He was like - whatever. I got $5 a quarter and a DVD player. Now, Randy leaves for the gym at like 5:30a so I don't see him before he leaves so he was not able to tell me what he had done. I am VERY confused at this point and asked Chris to show me what he was talking about.

He brought me into his room and showed me the quarter ($1 coin). The $5 bill ($5 bill) and the DVD player (empty CD sleeve). So DVD player and CD sleeve are the same in his mind. This is good to know.

So now he has a very large gap in his month. This has not hindered or slowed his speech in any way.

Breaking in the new patio '10

We had our first of what will hopefully be many patio gatherings yet even this season. I totally lucked out as a friend of mine tipped me off to a patio warehouse clearance sale. Had I had the money we would have an awesome living set for under the pergola. It was at least a $3K set and they were asking under $1K. I passed but did get 4 sling back chairs, a nice long wicker glass top table and heavy iron umbrella stand all for $80!! Not bad!

Then I went out again and got a fire pit! That proved to be the best purchase as it was a bit chilly and the fire pit was a HUGE success!!! It was a lot of fun to be able to have more then a few people over at the same time!! We had tons of great food and drinks and then did the s'mores! I can't wait for the next one!!

Lost his front tooth! '10

FINALLY!! Chris is 7+ and he is just now loosing one of his front teeth!! He was sooooo excited! Sitting at the breakfast bar eating bacon and it literally just fell out!! He was like ... HAY!? My tooth just fell out? But then ... he saw ... b.l.o.o.d!!! E-gads!! It was not actually bleeding but he saw red and started to BAWL!! After explaining that he was not actually bleeding and he is now no closer to death then he was 30 seconds ago he calmed down.

The tooth fairy brought THREE packs of gogos!! He woke up and started laughing! We could hear him down the hall. Very cute!!

First Day of School '10

No big deal this year. No new clothes. No new back packs. Same old ... same old. Oddly enough, one of the kids at the bus stop did ask Chris if that was the same back pack he had from last year ... who keeps up with that kind of stuff?? Weird.

They both seem very happy with their teachers and classrooms ... all good.






Walking to the bus stop ...



Bus stop!




Off they go ....