August 30, 2007

Today is Krista's 18th birthday. She had a couple hours in between classes so I took her out for brunch at Rosie's.


For her official birthday supper Andrea took her to Olive Garden. Matthew, Kristie, Loren and I also went with them.

August 27, 2007

I went to Central to watch Matthew's first football game of the season. They played Eau Claire and won the game 33 - 7. I wasn't sure which one was Matthew.....didn't know what his number was, so I just took a few pictures of the team in general. I was surprised when I found out that he is in at least 3 or 4 of these pictures.

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Saturday, August 26 ~ Renee, Kristie and I went to the Brad Paisley concert in Milwaukee. With Brad on the tour were Taylor Swift, Jack Ingram and Kellie Pickler.

Taylor

Jack

Kellie
Brad

It was a really good concert. They were all great, but Brad especially knows how to entertain an audience.

Renee and Kristie enjoying the concert.

August 22, 2007

Today is Matthew's 16th birthday. Krista's birthday is next week. I took both of them to lunch at A&W for their birthdays.


We couldn't get everybody together the day of his birthday so the next day we all met at Famous Dave's for his actual birthday supper.

Aug. 18, 2007

Baseball is finished for the season. Soon football season will be starting. I took a lot of pictures during the season.




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August 17 ~ I had a visitor today....first time this year. Actually he has been around here for a couple of days but couldn't get a picture of him until today. For a small bird, they sure are noisy. And, it really makes the cats curious as to what all the noise is. Here's the noisy woodpecker.


Shortly after he left, I went out the back door and saw this guy sitting on my neighbors steps. I never see squirrels by my house.

August 16, 2007

Today is my aunt Fran's birthday. She is a young 91 years old. I went to Rochester to meet her and aunt Jane for a small get together. My cousins Dave, Rosie and Theresa also were there. We met at Old Country Buffet for lunch, then went to Fran's place for awhile afterwards.

August 10, 2007

Renee and I went to Brussels, WI to see Keith Anderson. Jamie O'Neil was there too. Brussels is a small town that has a festival in the town park. We heard that Keith was going to be there so we had to go check it out. We stayed overnight in Green Bay and drove back to Sun Prairie the next day. There wasn't anything going on in that area so I drove back to LaCrosse the same day.

Krista had planned on driving to Milwaukee on Sunday to keep Ryan company while waiting for his plane. Ryan joined the Marines and had to fly out of Milwaukee. So, I rode along with Krista to keep her company and make sure that she made it safely. We stopped in Sun Prairie to pick up Renee and she drove from there.

Milwaukee had so much construction going on downtown that I think Krista would have had a big problem driving around there. It wasn't easy for Renee. Renee's birthday was coming up on Tuesday, August 14 so we had a very small party that night.....I guess you can call it a party. She opened her gifts anyway.

August 3 ~ Kristie had to go to St Paul to the university so I rode along to keep her company. We had everything mapped out to the different places that we needed to go to. We only made one mistake. We couldn't understand why the traffic was so bad on a Sunday afternoon going from St. Paul to Minneapolis. We found out when we found ourselves in front of the metrodome. There was a Twins game. Then on the way back to St. Paul, we just happened to drive by the bridge that collapsed earlier in the week. That wasn't part of our plans. We were lost and just trying to find our way back to the interstate.