Holy Moly.....Bat Man!

Quite an eventful weekend, but all in all very nice. Rita joined us this weekend for Robin & Scott wedding festivities.

We all turned in fairly early friday night, because we figured it was going to be a late evening on Saturday.

Saturday morning we all got up early and headed into Rice Lake for a little shopping for Robin & Scott's wedding. Stopped off at McDonald's for a quick breakfast and while we where sittting there Rita informed us that while she was brushing her hair this morning a bat was dive bombing her in the bedroom. While we all know that Rita can have "on" days & "off" days.....we all just chuckled and assumed that today was going to be an "off" day for her. Got back to the house and got ready to head to the wedding in Weyerhauser. Jonathan's new friend, Jessica, from Chetek decided to join us and to keep Jonathan from being bored.

Robin & Scott's wedding was very nice. She looked absolutely stuning















Robin & Scott's Wedding Party















Robin & Scott
















Robin & Bob - he cleans up well :)




















3 Generations - Irene (grandmother), Suzie (mother) & Robin




















Scott & Robin's first dance as husband & wife















Scott's first dance with his new mother-in-law Suzie
















Scott & Grandma Irene















Some very handsome man dancing with Robin......
















Ohhhh.....It's our son Jonathan (ok, I'm his mom and am probably a little bias)
















Name those hands grabbing Scott's ass?.........I think many of the women at the reception could do it! It's Octopussy Tom!!!!!!
















Jessica not looking thrilled while pictures are being taken at the church















Jonathan & Jessica





















Robin & Scott's cake - Strawbery. Vanilla & Chocolate.......Yum




















As the sign says......Congrats to the both of you!
















Cutting the cake















Mike & Maddy getting the groove on















I only have eyes for you....... January 10, 2010 we will be celebrating 25 years of marriage















We go together like Peanut Butter & Jelly........
















Can't have an event without Mike's alcohol induced rendition of "Mustang Sally".......















I'm guessing youth has got Brian on this one Tom......Give up
















Tim & Sue take a whirl on the dance floor......















with Pam & Steve whirling right behind them















My Rita - XOXO















Steve thinks Joel needs a lesson on how to smile :)

So after the reception the honda "pilot of shit's" crew member decide to go stop off at Northshore for Linda's "New Beginning's" party. After a short time we head back home to call it the day. We arrive and Jonathan's bedding is all over the floor of his bedroom. We asked him what the heck is going on.......he proceeds to tell us that a big moth flew at him and he can't find it. We tell him he has been drinking to much dew and playing too much video games and off to bed we go. Lilly had a up & down night. It seemed every hour dshe was needing to go outside. Well, one of the trips to the potty, Joel came into the breezeway and he felt something fly by him & touch him. Well, he quickly determined we did indeed have a bat in the house and that most likely the "moth" Jonathan saw........was a frickin bat. So he gets Big Joe up and the two of them go bat hunting.......and just like all of Big Joe's hunting expeditions, they came up empty. So after about an hour, Joel comes back upstairs and I asked him "what the heck have ya been doin?".....That is when he tells me I think we do have a bat in the house. Thank goodness we sleep with the door shut, because I would have been up the rest of night. So Joel gets up in the morning to let Lilly out and I wait about 20 minutes or so before I decide to go downstairs. I walked 1 step into the kitchen and froze..............






















It's.......dada dada dada BAT MAN!















So Big Joe gets the basket outside and dada dada dada ....BAT MAN, decides.....
















He was really pissed about his eviction notice.


p.s...........yes the basket got tossed in the garbage!!!

Have a great week. Next weekend it is Wayde & Shelly, Klaus & Ann and Sheldon. Hopefully we can get out for some island time, jet skiing and cocktails.

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Productive Weekend

We had a very productive weekend by staying home........ stuff that needed to get done and just haven't had the extra time to do so.

Saturday started bright and early for me by getting up at 7:00 am. I started "deep" cleaning the dining room as if I was preparing to sell our house.....huh? With all the starts & stops throughout the day, it took 5 hours to clean. I did some more packing & preparing garage sale boxes. While I was doing the cleaning, Joel took off for the horseshoe tournament up at Wayde & Shelley's. I stayed back to represent our family at a couple of graduation parties.

Sunday was a VERY VERY special day for me! I celebrated 3 years of being a non-smoker. It just seems like yesterday that I gave up the shitty habit. Now if I could convince our dearest & closest friends in the whole wide world.......Steve & Pam to give it up, so we can spent the rest of our lives together, that would be the best! After my short lived acknowledgement, Joel started to work in the yard. Several weeks ago, we laid sod in 1/2 the backyard and now we are preparing to do the other half next Monday. Cleaning up the landscaping & munching in the backyard. While he was doing that, I "deep" cleaned our bedroom for 3 hours, prepared Jonathan's cabin party invites and then went out to help Joel. Joel's lifelong friend, Kevin Leiner popped in for a visit and then it was off to the grocery store we went.

All and all for not being at the lake, it was a nice weekend. Looking forward to this weekend at the lake because it is Robin's wedding. The following weekend, our other dear friends......Wayde, Shelley, Klaus, Ann and of course.......Sheldon.......are coming for some fun in the sun time at the island.

P.S........Linda sent me an e-mail to commnet on one of the postings. This is just to let everyone know that you can do a comment right here on the blog. If you have any questions on how to do that, just let me know.


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R*I*P

I just found out this morning that Lilly's sister who still lived in Windsor, MO with her real mother & father (and human Mom & Dad) .......passed away on July 3rd after being hit by a car :(
We are so sad because when Joel & I traveled to Missouri to go pickup Lilly, we had thought about taking her as well. This is a terrible tragedy for the family and our hearts goes out to them. It is also a reminder how fast accidents like this can happen with these little speedster.

Joel, Amy & Jonathan

Vacation is done! :(

Damm did that go fast......

Wednesday, July 8th
Well Wednesday morning we were wakened up by the the back hoe at 7 am. I swear he dug a trench to China.......and then he hooked up the pump so we now have water. As the rest of the week went by, we started to get a light orange colored water. So now we are having to get a filtration system for the house to stop it from getting worst. We meet with 2 more heating & cooling guys and are waiting for those bids to come in. The first guy came in at $20,000!!!! Which we thought was a tab bit high. Wednesday afternoon we started setting up for the garage sale. We went into town about 10:30pm to get some dinner at the B & B.

Thursday, July 9th
First day of the garage sale.......I set the alarm clock for 6:30am in order to get ready in time. I went down stairs & opened the garage door at 7:45 am to tiddy up a little and then I thought I would go make a cup of coffee before the sale started. Holy crap was I wrong......It was nonstop untill 11:00am, in fact we even "sold out". I didn't have much left to sell and was considering pulling the signs. Then we called Steve and Pam (they are having their garage sale this weekend) and told them to start packing up their shit and bring it to our house. After they did that.....garage was full again. I actually cook dinner and then we went to see the Hydroflites waterski show. We have been residents of Chetek for 3 years and have never seen the big show. I guess the hydroflites are state champions

Friday, July 10th
Second day of the garage sale and nothing too eventful. After the sale Pam, Steve, Joel, Big Joe, Finn & I went to the China Buffet and pigged out.

Saturday, July 11th
First of all.....It's my father birthday. Hope he had a wonderful day and it was free of "Hi Hi Hilter" but I high doubt it. The garage sale was finished by 1:00 pm, so that we could get out on the lake for a little boating & jet skiing. Out grand total for the garage sale was $1,391.00. While we were out jet skiing, I broke off one of the mirrors, so now I have that part ordered to the tune of $70.19 (just take that out of the proceeds of the sale) After we were done in the water for the day, we headed down to Birch Point Resort in Bloomer for a all you can eat Prime Rib, Shrimp, Crab Legs and Chicken Buffet. Holy cow was this place awesome! I can hardly wait to take you guys there.

Sunday, July 12th
Clean her up and headed home by 4:00 pm. Jonathan meet a couple kids from Chetek on Facebook, so they hopefully they will get together to hang out sometime.

Gotta go

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Time to catch up

Well we have alot to catch up on.....so here it goes:

Hip Hip Hoorah......It's V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N Time On Thursday afternoon, I got off work and was heading home, 94 was was backed up, so I got off the highway so I could go through downtown St Paul. Silly me......It was the first day of Taste of Minnesota. As I made my way through downtown, I as on the corner of Kellogg & Robert Street preparing to make a right turn. The car in front of me had stopped and make sure he could turn and I did the same. As the car in front of me proceeded I followed behind him. All of a sudden, he decided to stop in the middle of his turn for no apparent reason. Needless to say, I rear end him. He gets out of his car looks at his bumper, looks at my bumper and then comes to my window. He suggests everything is fine. I say lets get out of the way and go down the street to park in a parking lot. As we do so, the man takes off. I go to the parking lot and called the police to make sure there is record of me stopping because it was my fault. The police said that the dude most likely had no insurance, was an illegal alien or an outstanding warrant. So I finally get my butt home and I get a call from Joel stating his car broke down on 35E. Lovely....... so Big Joe has to tow him in rush hour traffic. We get the Aveo home and finish packing up the car. We finally got out of town at 7:30p.m. As we head out, we were thinking that everything happens in 3's........so maybe we outta stay home & go up in the morning! On friday we worked in the garage some more. Joel set up his work bench and cabinet. He still has to bring his toolbox on wheels up, bu the has decided to keep that a the SSP home for the time being. Nothing to exciting for the rest of the day.

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!!!!!
We started the morning by cementing the new mailbox post in, so that it could set. Got on the boat and headed to the island. By the time we got there, nobody was around. So we decided to head over to Pam & Steve's house to see if everybody was there. Sure as shit......that is where everybody was. Had a cocktail or 2 or 3........then headed to watch the fireworks in the middle of lake. When everybody got there......we had 7 boats hooked up together. After Chetek's fireworks display, we all headed over to Tim & Sue's house for their annual fireworks display. Their display is better than the Chetek's but maybe it's because it's like having our own private showing.

Sunday we just spent hanging out and doing odds & ends project around the house. Sunday afternoon Pam & Steve came over via their boat and we decided to go out for a cruise. The whole weekend was crazy on the lakes with all the tourists, weekender and regulars on the lakes. We hooked the 2 boats togther and just enjoyed the peace & quiet on the lake. Went to Gilligan's and ordered a couple of pizza's to go to eat in the middle of the lake. Now this is the life!

Monday morning started off very busy.......it's the day we are getting our well drilled. The drilling rig showed up at 8:00 am. The driller decided he would rather drill the well down next the pop up camper instead of the top of the hill......great for us because it saved us a shit load of money!!!






Drilling rig getting into position
















Drilling rig with the boom up
















The guys had to do a little tree trimming



















The hose of the drilling rig looks like a ........!

















After 3 hours and 39 feet, we have a well with clear, clean and refreshing water! hip hip hurray!
The back hoe will be here hopefully on Wednesday to connect the house to the well.






While the well was being drilled, we had our first heating & cooling contractor come to the house to give us a bid for a heat source. He will be back tomorrow at 10:00 am with his prepared numbers. I'm afraid of what those numbers are going to be.

Monday evening Joel & I took Pam & Steve out for all you can eat crab legs at Gilligan's to re-pay Steve for a fraction of what did did for us to get the shower house ready for Memorial weekend Bash and all the continuing stuff he helps Joel with. After dinner, we went to a relaxing boat ride into the sunset. It was absolutely beautiful end to a wonderful evening.......until we got back home and Joel & Steve decided to throw shoes in the dark. After getting eaten alive by mosquito's, we called it quits for the evening.

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Joel, Amy & Finn