Axel and Addy! Kent and Jacindas Vist Sept 09

Douglas County Fair August 23-25 2009

what it looks like with the garage so far..

Not the best shots but I just took these this morning....

Some changes to our house this summer.....

Starting on the garage foundation. (early fall) ...will put more pics up later...

update...

Its been so long since i logged in here, I almost forgot my password. I really don't know where the last couple of months have gone. Sometimes I wonder the clock really did grow wings and fly. I feel like it should still be the beginning of october...which is as far back as i can remember right now anyway.
My Mom arrived Oct 2nd to beautiful fall weather and a culture shock of 'American busyness' The first week she was here was a juggle between kids, Universtiy, Convention and trying to impress my mom with tasty American food--which didn't work--because every night we came home she has some awesome Aussie dish bubbling away in the oven! In fact..I don't think i even turned the dial on my washing machine the whole time she was here either. Such a treat...I miss her so much. Convention was wonderful. Jerry and I made it to most of #1 and I made it to the Sun of #2 (My Mom was sick with a bad cold and pink eye.) That Fri Liz (a school friend from Australia that I hadn't seen since 8th grade) came to visit. the next day it snowed..Liz was more excited than i have ever seen anyone in a long time. It was her first time seeing snow.
The next week I got sick with a bad cold and the stomach flu. Jerrys mom came down to visit. She was going to take my mum up to Deluth but becuase i was sick and Jerry was Driving back from Rhode Island with his Dad, they didn't go. So they stayed here and skipped around Alexandira visiting all the touristy places and booked my Mom tickets to Florida (Disney World etc). Florida was where my Mom finally warmed up...she had 80-90degree temps while we were wearing hats and mittens.
The next weekend (Halloween) we all went down to the cities to pick up shane and Joni from the airport. Shane rode back with Jerry to work on our garage (we have a garage almost built now! Yaay!) and My mom and I stayed with Joni and went to the Mall of America, the zoo and the childrens Museum. I took my mom to the airport that friday morning :(. It was sad to see her go. She says she had a good time. The kids got to know here really well. Espeically Bowden. He can picture who 'Gran' is for real now. Joni the kids and I made it back home Friday night to more snow. The guys had to give up working on the garage becuase of the storm. Sooo ....its Halloween night and Joni and I are the 'Men in the yellow hat and the Bowden and Benjamin are both Courious George the monkey. Its beyond words how cute they were. Joni found the cutest monkey costumes that were so warm and cozy--perfect for a white halloween. so we all went trick or treating and stock piled up on candy for the year and got all sugared up on corn syrup. Ha...i hadn't even had supper..so i was really hyped! woooooh.
oh my battery is going to die on me so i will finish this later
cherio.

Yo Ho Ho and Its of to UNI we go!

Tomorrow is officially our first day of UNIVERSITY! I start the morning off with a Drawing class and finish with a Math class. Jerry has a banking class a management class and Calculus. We went over to Morris again today for more Orientation and for the Student Activities Fair. We got a free supper and signed up to be in several different student organizations. I signed up for the Swimming club, running club, Saddle club and an Art club. Jerry signed up for a chemistry club (where they even make ice cream our of liquid nitrogen) and a small town club as part of Green Corps. I will have to decide between the running and swimming club cause it may be too much to keep up with both. There is a huge Rec Center on campus that has an indoor running track, swimming pools, climbing walls and everything else you need for gym. So we are so anxious to try it out. They even have water slides and Toddler events going on for kids on Saturdays! Ahh its going to be a great semester at the Uof M in Morris :)

Getting Ready for a Garage Sale....

So we are about to dive into something we have never done before.......a garage sale. Jerry and I spent the afternoon going through all our junk and hauling what we thought is 'saleable' to the front deck. We are either going to take it to the community center in town where they fill up the skating rink with everyone else stuff or we are just going to do it our here.
Its funny, I actually like scrounging for things to sell. I have so many old dusty shoes that i am very eager to part with! Its the baby clothes that are going to be the most work to price.
Tonight, Jerry got a call from one of his Buddies, Todd Ricthmeier. He was on his way back to the cities but broke down 15 mins from our house. So he went in to help him and then brought him back for Supper. It turns out that the transmission on his car is shot and it is now stuck here at our house. Jerry is driving him back to the cities as I write and will they will meet his wife half way.

Tomorrow is the first day the kids go to daycare. Bowden thinks he is such a big boy to go to Preschool! At this point, Benjamin is just happy where ever he is!:) I am a little sad but i know they will enjoy it. They are going to a family Daycare (or Chassy's house) is just up the road from our house.
So with classes starting this week and our garage sale we are going to be flat out. So I'm bracing my self for adventure! Night