Boston 2010

Way back at the end of July, beginning of August my dad, mom, neice, and nephew went to go visit my sister in Boston. While there we went whale watching, a day in Boston (my sister actually lives about an hour from Boston), and to George's Island.

My dad, mom, and I have all been out many times before, but my neice, Ashley and nephew, Alex had never been there before...nor had they ever been on a plane.

I didn't go picutre crazy since the trip is nothing new to me, but I did during the whale watching. When we decided to go whale watching I was looking forward to it but I wasn't crazy excited. That all changed when the whales got so close to the boat you could see their eyes, mouth, etc. It was crazy!

I have a lot more pictures that show the whole movement of the whales from coming up and then going back down but this is all that is making it in this post!

The famous Plymouth Rock

My first bridal shower as the host.

My friend, Anna, from my air guard unit is getting married Oct. 30th and I decided that I would throw her a bridal shower for all of us guard ladies. I was up until 1230am prepping everything and then had to get up at 430am for drill. Drill makes for a long weekend already so when it was all said and done I was exhausted until the following weekend!

The bridal shower was kitchen themed.

The food table! I love the way it came out. The menu was:

3 different kinds of chicken on skewers

Cheese stuffed mushrooms

fresh mixed fruit

pasta salad

triscuits and dip

Cupcakes were Chai latte with vanilla mousse coffee filling and devil's food with raspberry filling

Sherbert punch

frozen sangria

favors were chocolate chip cookies in a jar

The first game we played was "guess the spice". I had 6 different spices in clear bottles and everyone had to guess what the spice was just by looking at it.

The second game consisted of Anna putting this apron on with different kitchen gadgets tied to it. She walked around the guests for two minutes and then took it off. The guest had to remember and write down as many as the could.

Everyone at the shower.

AMA flat track

Over Labor day weekend Paul and I went to Springfield, IL with my parents for the Springfield short track and Mile. My family has always been into racing and motorcycles. My brothers and nephew raced go-carts, my dad and brothers all raced cars (hobby stock and modifieds), and my grandpa raced motorcycles.

The girl in the pink is Nicole Cheza. I first saw her race when she was 16 in 2004 during the Strugis rally in South Dakota. She has come a long way, now racing in the experts classs.

#83 and #25 are both females. This, I believe, is the pro class.

It amazes me how close these racers go into a turn and can make it through without a crash!

This guy, Jason, lost his arm when he was two. You can read about him here. I couldn't believe it when I first saw him. Talk about determination!

I love going to flat track races because the excitment is always going. A driver can go from 5th to 2nd to 1st back to 5th all in one lap! I hope to attend more than just Springfield next year.

Fall-My favorite time of year!

I love decorating...when I have the time. So, here are my fall/halloween decorations this year.

Teach me how to Bucky

On Sat. Oct 9th Paul, myself, and our friends, Mike and Michelle headed to downtown Madison for some Badger football tailgating via the Cannery Grill bus.  Bus+no driving=drunk mess!    



 On the way down...

 My cousin, Mason, came from MN.  I had not seen Mason in a LONG time so it was nice to squeeze in a beer with him before he headed into the game.

 He is not a MN fan, but I still had to give him the "WTF look" for wearing MN gear in Badger country.

 AND....this is where it got a little crazy...

To cap off the post here is the you tube video link to "Teach Me How To Bucky"

Out with the old, In with the new!

If your finding this blog and you were a follower of my old one then you know the old one was deleted. I kept getting this photobucket thing on my old one and even with all the googling I couldn't figure how to get it off. I got irritated and just deleted it.

I wasn't a fan of the name anyways so here's to new. I do wish I would of kept some of the posts though...oh well!

I was also lacking in the post department and well that is the main point of a blog, right? Between working full-time, part-time, and then going to school part-time I don't have a lot of time. It's not going to get any better either because starting in Jan. I will be going to school full-time and will still be working.

So, posts may be sporatic but I'll try to keep you entertained with the randomness of my life.