Happy Birthday to Brenden

Today is officially the day.  Brenden is no longer a 20 something.  He is a 30 something.  

My parents threw him a root beer themed party with 30 different varieties of bottled root beer.  They never threw a party like this for any of their "real" children.  They went all out with root beer candy, root beer keg, decorations, root beer cupcakes. . .

We had a taste testing session where we rated the different flavors.  For instance, I had always thought that Dad's root beer was OK but comparing that to say Bulldog, it tastes like dirty socks.  Thanks for the party everyone!

Happy 30th Birthday Brenden!

Crop Circles

Need your lawn mowed?  

Brenden can do any design you ask for.  Circles, argyle, messages, names, polka dots, hounds tooth, plaid... the possibilities are endless. 

Can you tell he is enjoying having a yard?

Amputate!

Tonight Emmie was sitting on Julianne's lap, leaning back and then having Julianne pull her back up.  On one pull, Julianne heard a pop in Emmie's right elbow and the kiddo started screaming.  After a few minutes of her holding it, we decided to take her to the clinic.  The way there and in the waiting room she would use her other arm, but not her right one.  As you can imagine, lots of crying all the way.  The doctor said it was probably just "nursemaid elbow."  He did a few twists of her arm, it popped and within a couple minutes when I asked her where her owee was she showed me the wrong arm.  So just like that the pain was gone and she was running out to get her stickers.  Phew.  Good thing we didn't have to amputate. 



And sorry to Aaron and Whitney whose night of game playing with us was cut short.  At least we ate some good grub, right?

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Every toddler should have facial hair.

Freckles

No, those aren't spots on your computer screen. I knew it was only a matter of time before Emmie got freckles and I have to say I am happy to report she is getting some! Now if she can just grow some hair.

Trip to Lincoln

My parents, Randy and Jody, along with my sister Carianne and her toddler Kate drove out last week to help us move into a new place.  It was so nice having them here.  They were a huge help! There is no way we could have done it without them.  Thank you!

We did manage to squeeze in some fun in between all the chaos.  Here is some proof...

A big thanks goes out to everyone who also came and helped us pack and unpack the moving truck.  You guys are awesome! 

Selling some vinyl records on Ebay

I am selling some vinyl records on Ebay - Minus the Bear, Mumford & Sons, Sigur Ros, The Get Up Kids, New End Original, Dear and the Headlights and the City on Film. 

Go Forth and BID!

Sigur Ros - Takk - 2xLP + 10" Vinyl DMM OOP (Sigur Rós)

New End Original - Thriller (onelinedrawing​-jonah matra

Minus the Bear Omni LP Deluxe Colored Vinyl UNPLAYED

Mumford and & Sons - Sigh No More - Vinyl LP

Dear and the Headlights-Drun​k Like Bible Times Ltd. Ale

Minus the Bear - They Make Beer Commercials...V​inyl EP

Get Up Kids - Simple Science EP - OOP- Ltd. Ed. colore

The City on Film, In Formal Introduction Hey Mercedes