Thursday, September 9, 2010

Weekend Recap

Friday night kicked off football season! Go Falcons!
We started off on the road against Lawrence Free State.
Yeah, they are good. We lost.
But look how cute my husband is!
I love when he's "coaching" his players!

Because we had the game on Friday night, we had a late start to our Labor Day weekend. We did get to take the dogs and even let them swim and wear themselves out on the beach.
The fun part about Bella and Dakota, is that they almost always feel like they must both carry the stick back in to us. What is even more fun is that sometimes they get on opposite sides facing opposite directions and just swim in circles! So funny!



And to top off our amazing weekend? Yep, time with the Ledge.
He loves playing with his Uncle Josh! (Please notice the TV pulled up to the sliding glass door. Did you think that we'd miss the Cats on TV even though we were at the lake? Never!)

Even though the Ledge is allergic to milk, his Mommy and Oma let him have some of Oma's fudgecicle. What rebels! He loved it...obviously...we do share blood, here!


And this one? Yeah, it's just cute. That's my only justification for posting it!

Hope your weekend was as fun as mine! We needed it after a week of stress where most of us have been surrounded by sadness. Our Grammie is feeling tired but good and ready to start chemo and radiation soon, but my sister lost a friend from high school at just 30 and our cousin's beautiful 8-month old son died at child care this week. Please keep these families in your prayers.

Monday, August 23, 2010

My poor baby...

Well, Friday night, after our beloved Royals got postponed, we endured the incredibly horrible weather for our drive home. The rain was coming in sideways and it was hailing.
To make matters worse, a party bus stopped on the on ramp to I-35 South... in the middle of the freaking pouring rain. Then, in case it wasn't bad enough, he put it in reverse and backed right over the hood of my car.
Yep, a wreck.
And then, the guy had the nerve to ask if WE ran into HIM!?!?!
What a jerk! We saw your reverse lights you stupid party bus driver!

Yeah, that is my foot...through the hood of my car.

Monday, August 16, 2010

My favorite month because...

...of August birthdays!!
My adorable nephew, Ronan, turned 2 on August 15th!
These pictures were about 2 weeks before he turned 1, which means...
I need a Ronan fix! (and Jonas, and Jeremy, and Brandy!)

Please note in the picture below...
Ronan was VERY unhappy when we stopped walking.
But he's still soooo cute!


My big (middle) sister turned the big 3-0 on the 16th!
I cannot believe that we're getting so old!
I have been so lucky to have such amazing sisters to look up to!


Um, yep, we're in matching bathing suits...
We're that cool.


My amazing mom also has her birthday in August, on the 17th!
What an awesome month!?!
This is celebrating "Mom's Weekend" in college.



This could be one of my favorite pictures of my mom and I.
Doesn't she look so trendy? She is!
We were watching "Footloose" at Theatre in the Park!

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Prayers for Grammie

My Grammie was diagnosed with Uterine Cancer just before we left for vacation. While we were gone, she had a radical hysterectomy and is currently preparing for radiation and chemotherapy. She is a very strong woman. However, the doctor told her that she has only seen about 10 women in her entire career with uterine cancer as advanced as hers. Please keep my Grammie in your prayers.

Maui Recap



Since we've been back from our amazing vacation for nearly a week and haven't blogged about it, the chances of it actually happening are getting slimmer by the minute. My wonderful sister, however, did an excellent job of keeping it up-to-date. So, in my extreme laziness, I am attaching her blog reports so that you can, in fact, see how much fun we had!

Maui Day 7

Today was a free day. Millie and Dad went bead shopping all over the island. Josh, Chris, Kendell and I hung out on the beach and went to Lahaina to do some mild shopping and site-seeing.

While in Lahaina, we saw someone famous... Do you know this famous person?

Yeah, that's Carlos Santana! And he called me "LOVE"! :) Very exciting!
That night, we went to our Luau. It was really fun. I wish I could move like those girls. I practiced in the bathroom the next day, and no, I look nothing like them! However, we got some really good pictures!



Yeah yeah, I know, I have bug eyes...

Maui Day 6

Ziplining

Today the Michels split off from the Powells/Perkins. Chris went parasailing and met Putty from Seinfield! Very exciting!

The rest of us went on a ziplining tour. It was very fun! Mostly because I got videos of Josh and Dad making fools of themselves!

That night, we all went out to a nice dinner on the beach. We took this opportunity to take romantic couples pictures. Here's ours...