Ok, so I'm a week behind....shoot me!

After my class reunion, we had the week to get ready for our niece, Courtney to come and hang with us for the weekend. She arrived with Joel on Friday afternoon and we started our weekend by heading down to Eau Claire to check out phones at the Sprint store. August 1st we are up to renew our contract and get new phones, none of us knew which phone we were interested in. So after the Sprint phone tour, we headed to J C Penney's to shop for work pants for Jonathan. Found pants for Jonathan.......and shoes for momma! .......and Courtney also! After shopping, it was time to hit up our favorite Chinese restaurant........Asian Buffet. A couple trips to the sushi bar and it was time to head home.

Saturday was a day filled with shopping, shopping and more shopping! The one thing I miss the most about losing the girls is the fact I have NOBODY to shop with. With Courtney up........she filled the void. We had a blast and even ended up flying back to Eau Claire to look for an item we had been searching for Courtney........mission complete!

Sunday, we finally were able to get onto the boat once the fog and cloudy skies disappeared. First we anchored at the sand bar for awhile, visiting with a couple of friends........then we decided to do a cocktail cruise and take her around the loop. Dinner was in the crock pot, so when we returned.....Hawaiian Ribs were served.

Monday morning, Joel & Courtney (with some nice sunburn!) were on their way back to the cities. Had so much fun having Courtney here, that we decided in the next couple of weeks that she was going to come and stay the whole week. Later in the morning as I was working in the office, I noticed the lump on Charlie head had gotten bigger and was bleeding. I called the vet and she wanted to see him later in the afternoon. The vet took a slide of the lump and stained it. After a couple of minutes she came back and said the the lump did have bacteria in it, but also the cells that normally are round, weren't and that they had wisps on them. This is a sign of cancer. We discussed the treatment options and decided to treat him with a very high powered antibiotic. He is taking it twice a day for 7 days and if it isn't totally gone, he will be having surgery on Tuesday, August 2nd. It is amazing how such a little lump can cause so much havoc.

This upcoming weekend, we are preparing for Nancy and Hannah to come up along with Jonathan's friend from South St Paul, Hailey. With 90's, hot and humid planned for the whole weekend..........you know where you will find us!

The weekend of August 5-7th, we will be having Kevin, Nicole and the kids up. Keith.......there is room for you and your family!!!!

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Joel, Amy and Jonathan

Class of 82' Rocks

This past weekend was my 2nd annual mini class reunion up here at the lake. As usual we had a fricking blast!!



There was so many memories from the weekend, so we captured a couple here.






Diana and Mary the "morning after"......













Jack was caught giving Linda some love












Carolyn and Renae waiting patiently for the boat to be loaded to head to the sand bar.









It's 90 degrees and the air is on.......Susan, what the heck do you need a coat on?









all and all it was a fabulous weekend. The heat was on, but we had no Lisa drama which was a plus!

Looking forward to the 3rd Annual Mini Class Reunion next year......See you all July 20-21st, 2012!

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Joel, Amy and Jonathan

Busy, Busy.......

We made it through the 4th of July weekend .......it was a weekend filled with lots of work, but we made it.

Friday was quite uneventful with Joel arriving from work, Big Joe coming home after playing super trucker and Jonathan off to work. We went to bed early as we had a early morning.

Saturday we were up & Adam by 6 am to head to Minnesota to meet John & Joanne at Grandma Waage's house to start cleaning it out. She hasn't lived in the family house in almost 5 years, so it is time. We loaded up our Tahoe, John 's truck and a rental trailer. There was still more, but we will save that for another Saturday. We were all loaded and heading back to Chetek by noon. Once we arrived back home, we unloaded all the vehicles and started to go through all the "stuff". We did some marking in preparation for a garage sale at the end of this week. By early evening, we were all exhausted and called it the day.

Sunday, we took the day off. It has been non-stop working around the house since the middle;e of April and in fact, we haven't even been on the boat once.......really! I'm telling the truth! John & Joanne had stuff to do around their house, so they weren't coming up to continue to work on the garage sale. Joel & Big Joe worked on the yard and did some tweaking on the underground sprinkler system. At noon we dropped everything and prepared to launch the boat with us, puppies and beer on board. We did a little cocktail cruising and then the puppies were getting over heated, so we headed to the island. Once we anchored, we got the puppies cooled down. Charlie didn't have a life jacket because the little porker has gained a pound or two over the winter months, so Oliver inherited Charlies life jacket. Charlie didn't do much swimming because he didn't have his life jacket. Friends, Kim & Dan arrived along with their dog, Foxie, who also wears a life jacket. Foxie wasn't interested in swimming, so we put Foxie's life jacket on Charlie. Once it was on, we took him int he water for some swimming and then put him back on the boat. Well, apparently Charlie wasn't done swimming because as we were talking to Kim & Dan.......Charlie cannon balled off the cooler that was sitting int he doorway of the boat! It was hilarious. Kim & Dan then had to leave for dinner, so we visited our would-be neighbors had we purchased the Sumner house. We ran out of beer and needed home. I didn't feel like fixing dinner so I went to take a shower, laid on the bed in the a/c and fell asleep!

Monday, was scheduled to be another work day. yea! We meet John & Joanne and Grandma Waage for breakfast at Mary's Cafe to plan our next move. Once back at the house, the tent went up, boxes cleared out of the garage and table put up.......gee, it started to look like a true shit sale. It's pretty bad when you run out of the 10, 25 & 50 cent stickers.......what does that tell ya? Around 4:40 pm we ran over to Dairy Queen for a quick burger before John & Joanne headed back to Minnesota. Once back home, Michelle and Shauna came over for a boat ride, swimming and fireworks. Instead of anchoring on the end of our point, we decided to head over to the sand bar, which just so happened to be right in front of where the fireworks would be exploded from........we had front row seats! Had a beer or 2 and visited with friends that came & went. After the most amazing fireworks I have seen in some time, we toodled home to see Michelle and Shauna off. Same thing as Sunday night.......shower & off to sleep we went.

Back to the grind for all of us on Tuesday and more preparation for the garage sale after work for me :(

The month of July is a busy one for the Waage's with the upcoming Grandma Waage garage this weekend, July 15-17 is my class reunion at the lake, July 22-24 Courtney's weekend, July 29-31 our visitors are Nancy, Mike and Hannah Dickinson with Mike Mangsku and August 5-7 Nicole, Kevin and kids are coming for a visit.

Hope everyone had a fun but safe 4th of July

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Joel, Amy and Jonathan