Ode to Dwight, Stuff, and Twinkie's in HD!

So a new 1 hour episode of 'The Office' was on last night. Can a show get any better? Easily still the best comedy on TV. Dwight steals the show, which Michael trailing in a close 2nd. I'm sure you are all jealous (except for Justin), but above you will see pictured my very own Dwight Bobblehead. To keep this entry short, I would like to invite all of you (yes, the thousands of readers that I have) to respond with your favorite Dwight Schrute quote. Also, be sure to check out Brad's zazzle page. He's got some great paraphanlia for sale from the Office, including Schrute Farms shirts/mugs...Vance Refigeration, Dunder Miflin, etc.

On the homefront...Ava had her 15 month appointment. 75% height, 12% weight. String bean. She's got a ton of teeth now...talking like crazy, and is basically WALKING up the stairs on her own rather than crawling. She still has no fear and doesn't know any better to crawl down, so she's got some work to do yet :) I have fairly recent pictures (as of mid march) finally updated on our website, so be sure to check em out if you haven't already.

Twins had a hot start! Joe, Jim, Brad and I split a season ticket package this year. Getting our priority established for the new Stadium, if and when that ever happens. Next two series should be a good one...3 game WSox series...the chicago bullpen has sucked so far this year, so hopefully we can get another sweep. Then the Yankee's series...first series of the season televised in HD! For those that are up on the times and have an HD television, there are 43 twins games that will be televised in HD this year. I believe that's about twice as many as they had last year. I would hope that within a couple of years, all games will be in HD.

Well, that's a start for my return to blogging. I make no promised on when I may try this again, but I'm hoping to get back into a routine again. I hope I still have a reader or two. Don't forget to comment on your favorite Dwight quote...I'll start with two of my favorites:

"I am ready to face any challenges that might be foolish enough to face me."

"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think “would an idiot do that?” and if they would, I do not do that thing."

It's been a while....

and I still don't have time to write much...since jan 2, what's happened? Lots of stuff I'm sure. Don't be suprised if this slow streak creeps into March. Please keep checking back just in case I get a wild hair up my arse though.

We had our fishin trip up to Winnie...was a great time! And we actually caught enough fish for fish fry this year! A new record! Plus some extra to bring home....Looking forward to next year already. I'll try to hop back on and update this with some pictures from the trip in the next day or so.

Ava is keeping us on our toes, running all over the place. She's been pretty sick since friday, but seems to be making a turn for the better...we'll see tonight how she's doing.

Tenielle had a b-day over the weekend, (actually on Monday), but with Ava sick, it was fairly uneventful. The 3 of us went to the MOA for a little while on Saturday night to eat, shop a little, and let Ava watch the rides in camp snoopy...she loves watching the roller coasters go by.

Justin came over once...ate all my food and drank my booze...and got beat by Cristin in video games...both games! Man, pathetic.

I'm sure I'm missing a ton of events. We are heading up to Crosslake with the family next weekend, so that should be a good time. Haven't been up there in a few months!

That's all for now....

Steve

Happy New Year! (and bonus Caption Contest!!)

Well, I hope everyone has recovered from whatever form of New Years celebration they decided to partake in. We spent the weekend in Two Harbors, MN just hanging out and eating way too much food, and having beers and cocktails. We managed to get out on the ice fishing for a few hours on Saturday, but the conditions weren't ideal (especially since we packed too much other crap to allow for me to bring up my portable), but it was fun, and we managed to catch a few perch (while Justin sat and drank beer and Jocelyn put in an excellent effort in to make me a wind blocking wall out of snow (the entire inch or so that was on the lake).

Ava went swimming in the pool a couple of times and really enjoyed it, although she seemed to enjoy the hot tub more since it was warm. We brought in the new year...barely. The girls had all dozed off and we woke them up shortly before midnight, about the same time Justin was breaking out in hives or the clap or something on his face and ears.

So that was the quick summary of the weekend...very quick summary. Now onto the first ever Caption Contest!!! So here's the scoop....I'll post a picture (as you can see below), and you leave a comment with your best shot at a funny caption. Can't wait to read em...Here we go!!

(Insert Caption Here...)

Merry Christmas!!!

Well, I've got about 20 minutes left until my week off, so I doubt I'll blog until I'm back, and we should have some good holiday pictures available, taken from our brand new digital camera that Santa brought a couple days early. For those who care, we bought a Sony DSC-H2, superzoom camera. First pictures we took last night turned out AMAZING. It's much larger than our old camera, but the picture quality difference is more than worth the size factor.

We'll be in town all week, relaxing at home for a change! I hope all of you have a safe and happy Christmas and New Years! See ya next year!

Steve

Ava is 1! (almost)

Well, we had Ava's 1st birthday party last night, a few days early. She had a great time and got a TON of gifts. She started walking last week...her record is probably about 10 feet or so, but she's picking it up quick! We are going to take a half day on Wed (her actual birthday) and head to the Dayton's display (yes, i know it's now Macy's...but the display will always be "the Dayton's display) and mabe the Holidazzle if it's nice out. Pretty amazing how quickly the first year went by and how much she's grown. Crazy stuff.

Ice season is among us! I haven't been out yet, but the ice is ready in some parts of most of the metro lakes. I'm hoping to get out sometime soon, but the warm weather this week is sure to soften the top inch or two. After a year off of the IDS ice fishing trip to Mille Lacs, it's back on this year...but to Lake Winnie instead. I've never been on Winnibigoshish, so i'm looking forward too it. We'll probably hammer the jumbo perch first, then search for some eyes. We'll see. EIther way, the Crappie in prior lake are waiting for me, so i want to get out soon and clean a few up for dinner. Tasty.

My 30th Birthday is next weekend. 30's. When I started here at IDS I remember the 30+ guys seeming old. So now I'm one of those 'old' guys....sitting aroudn all day about my job and getting paid too much to do it. HA! Wait! Was I way off about them getting paid too mcuh to do that! But for some reason i'm still here :)

Ok, so back to work. Have a good week. (I'd wish you all a Merry Christmas, but i'm certain i'll blog again before that, right?)

In hopes it hasn't died...

It's been a while since there has been any activity here! Sorry. Hopefully people havent' given up and will check it from time to time still, so with that said, I'll get on with it.

Turkey day is just around the corner! I can taste the food already. It is by far my favorite holiday in regards to food. Christmas is a close 2nd. Well, Christmas should maybe take 1st since it's actually 2 days of great eating. Hmm...tough one. The Kortan kitchen is demolished in the midst of an extensive remodel, so we are going to go out to eat with the Kortan clan at noon. MacTavish is the destination. They generally have great food, so I'm assuming their T-Day buffett will be tasty. The we will be off to the Shallman's, hopefully in time for round 2.

With Friday off, it might be a good time to get the Christmas lights up on the house. Many of my neighbors are ahead of me on it this year. Oh well. Although I have wednesday off, and it's supposed to be 60...so sounds like a nice day to run around on my roof.

Speaking of roofs, that reminds me of when we were kids (Mom, you might want to stop reading now as you probably won't like what I'm going to say :) ). The house we grew up in had easy access onto the roof via a wooden sunshade thing over the deck. During the summer, we'd spend a ton of time up there, for nothing else but because it was high up and it seemed cool. We'd throw stuff at kids down on the ground, stuff like that. Mostly all in fun. But we'd make it over to above the garage, where it wasn't as dangerously high...and the fun thing to do was to Jump down from there, and then get back up and do it again. No matter how many times we did it, each time we were just as nervous, but we'd do it again anyway. It was about a 9ft drop. Suprised nobody broke a leg ever, but we did hit our chins with our knee's quite a few times. And yes, even Karen made the jump on occassion if i remember correctly! something tells me I wouldn't be brave enough to do it anymore.

Ava is now standing on her own and getting close to taking legitimate steps! Mostly just standing though. She does that a ton. She's also mastered crawling up the stairs, and is working on figuring out how to get back down (under close supervision of course). She's become somewhat of a picky eater in the last couple of weeks. Generally the only thing she'll eat no matter what is cheese, mac and cheese, and bread. Here and there she likes the fruits and veggies, which used to be her favorite, but she's turning them down more often now. She's also figured out how to spit food out she doesn't want, so that's a lot of fun. Great game.

Anyway, there's some filler to make it look like this blog is active! I'll try to keep it going, but don't expect much again until next week since this week is short. Although I do need to add Ava's Halloween pictures to our website, so i'll try and do that this weekend. Have a great Thanksgiving!

Strictly to annoy Justine.

Did you know that 3 is a magic number? Because 2x3 = 6. And 6x3 = 18. And the 18th letter is the alphabet is "R".

There are 3 R's that I'm going to talk about today: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

If you are going to the market to buy some juice, you gotta bring your own bags an you learn to reduce your waste. We gotta learn to reduce.

And if your brother or your sisters got some cool clothes, you could try them on before you buy some more of those. Reuse. We gotta learn to reuse.

And if the first 2 R's don't work out, and if you gotta make some trash well, don't throw it out...Recycle. We gotta learn to recycle.

Reduce...Reuse...Recycle.

Because 3...it's a magic number. Yes it is...a magic number...and I said it.

ding ding dong-dong, ding...dong-dong (repeat that a few times just for fun).

No time to write anything useful, enjoy your weekend!

That's a lotta dimp....

In the spirit of not letting my blog go dead again, I figure I better post. Still haven't figure out my halloween costume...the ideas given were...how can i put it...piss poor?

We had a group activity for work on Tuesday at Gameworks in block e. 75% of the time I spent playing big buck hunter or Extreme Hunting. It got me to thinking...why don't they have these games out for PS2 or XBox? They have light guns for PS2 I know, but i'm not aware of any good hunting games that work with them. And that cabela's video game crap is crap. I don't want to spend 1/2 hour sitting in a tree stand and putting on deer scent to shoot at one lousy animal. If i wanted realism, i'd actually go hunting! I just want a fun, don't shoot the doe, drink some beer kind of game. WOuld be a hit! I'd actually break down and buy a ps2 just for the sole reason of a game like that...if it existed. If only I knew how to write video games. But i don't. Maybe i can write a nice data entry web app that you can use a light gun on to enter the letters...that would be sweet, right?

Anyway, nothing much new to talk about...but onto the trivia. The title of this entry is from a movie...anyone reading this SHOULD know the movie...so that's not the question...a virtual beer goes to the first person to explain what it means...i.e., what is 'dimp'. Good luck...if you are great, you'd just know this. If you have to look it up, you might get credit for the right answer, but you'll have to live with knowing you cheated. Cheater. Steve, out.

Chomp...chomp.....pa-chewy chomp.

So Tenielle and I had a weekend away...just the two of us...to Bayfield, Wisconsin. Weather was great, and we had a nice relaxing time. Ate some great food, hit some apple orchards, played some cribbage...sat and did nothing. Colors were great, but not quite at peak. And we had a nice, cozy cabin right off of the lake. Ava spent the weekend with G&G Shallman, and I think they all had a great time. We missed her of course, but it was nice to have our own schedule for a day or two.

Halloween is on it's way, and i better start thinking of a good costume. Please comment with any good suggestions (i'm sure all of you clowns that read this will take it seriously and give good suggestions, right?)

The twins play game 2 against the A's today...i'm gonna take a half day and go...hopefully. Sucks for those of you stuck at work NOT watching it. Yay for me!

Ava has tooth #3 coming through...one of the side top ones. She had her 9 month appt. on monday and the results are:
Weight : 17 lbs. 8 oz. (25th Percentile)
Height : 28 3/4" (80th Percentile)
Head : 16 3/4" (5th Percentile)
So still a tiny head compared to average baby these days. But that's what we love about her. Big heads are dumb.

I better work so i can get out of here and hit the game today...so gimme some suggestions on costumes.

Welcome back, me! (And Shane's Man-crush)

This post is to welcome myself back to blogging. It's been a couple of weeks and I feel really bad about that. This one might be quick as I will write more later in the week to catch up. But I want to touch on an important topic...Shane's man-crush on he-man guy at the twins game.

Man-crush's are an odd phenomenon which I personally have never experienced (unless you can have a man-crush on yourself...which i think i might...since i'm pretty freakin awesome). However, i am often the target of one. Many of you reading this blog have probably had a man-crush on me at least once...if not more. It's ok! Really! People understand. I'm friendly...people think i'm awesome...and i drink man drinks. It's cool...i'm ok with it.

Justin made me aware of these 'man-chushes' a while ago when he declared his crush on me. It was quite nice. Made me feel really good about myself.

But enough about me...let's get onto the topic...Shane's man-crush. We were at the twins game last wednesday for a work outing...and in the row in front of us this hippie lookin guy sits down. Shane instantly locks in a stare. He couldn't take his eyes away! After a few minutes of oogling, he speaks....'Man, that guy looks just like He-Man!'. Well, he had longer hair...and was in better shape than myself...but He-Man? So he then made me take pictures of him with my phone for a reason i may not undertand...but he said it was for 'his memory book'. Rrrrriiiiiigggghhhttt. So while the rest of us watched the twins game, Shane spent the remainder of the afternoon dreaming of being rescued by his new found hero. Attached is the best picture i could get of the guy for him. You make the call.

Go see Beerfest

Ok, so most people reading my blog tend to be Super Troopers fans. So even despite Club Dread being a little disappointing, trust me when I say that Beerfest will NOT disappoint. How could it? It's about beer, drinking beer, drinking games, Oktoberfest, drinking TON'S of beer, hangovers, college parties, and more stuff about beer. Plus a slew of lines that will be sure to be as memorable as the plethora of Super Troopers quotes we sling out there. So if you haven't seen it on it's opening weekend (loser) and you don't have plans to see it yet...get with it...and go see it. Cause i said so.

In other news, we are hitting the State Fair on wednesday afternoon. Even though most people realize that I hate the state fair, i'm going strictly because I know Ava will like it and that Tenielle likes going as well. That's the type of guy I am...whatever it takes to make people happy! I'm such a great guy.

Labor day weekend is only a few days away, and the weather forcast SUCKS. Highs in the Brainerd area are predicted in the upper 60's with scattered rain. Wow. Good fishing weather, but we might just stay in town for a change.

Ava has been crawling like crazy...mostly army crawling, but she's now begun to get up onto her knees better and makes it a ways like that. She also started meats this week...BAD idea. Wow, that makes her stink. Icky.

Anyway, let me know if you want to hit the Schitzengiggle some night this week.

A Numb Mouth is a Dumb Mouth

So I had a dentist appointment this morning to get a couple of fillings. They gave me a shot of novacaine and let me sit for a bit while it set in. 10 minutes or so later, my jaw was numb, but my lips were totally unaffected. He started drilling anyway and he could tell right away that I had full sense of what was going on. So on to dose #2 of novacaine. That finally numbed me up more than well enough.

The problem is that it is lunchtime! I had a very small breakfast and I'm starving! The novacaine has MAYBE just started to fade, but hardly. My tongue and lips feel 3 times their normal size, and I keep biting my tongue and cheeks. No way I could manage to eat right now without completely destroying the inside of my mouth, so here I sit, growling stomach and all. This is dumb. I would rather have kept my two cavities.

In other news, Ava is sick with some sort of nasty cold and has been very cranky with a fever that won't go away. She has a doctors appointment today, so hopefully they can give her something to help ease the discomfort. Tenielle just got over a cold and pink eye. I amazingly have been fine, but i'm sure my days are numbered.

BeerFest comes out this friday! Go see it! It's bound to be good. Mike Evans gave it a horrible review. Said there was untasteful humor, nudity that wasn't sexy, etc. He gave it 1 star. Sounds pretty dang good to me! It's broken lizard...i spose if you aren't a fan of the guys or know of them, maybe there isn't as much in it for you. Who knows. I'm convinced it will be great. No doubt in my mind.

So I have the #3 pick in the draft this Sunday. Who cares? Not me.

Sounds like Liriano will be back in the rounds soon! After Silva last night, we need him.

That's all for now...comment away.

Nice Vacation!

Ok, with the wedding and family reunion going on, I was only around for a couple of days in the past couple of weeks. And with putting together websites for both events, that has taken up my 'slacking time' at work. (Just kidding Wade...but not really).

So the Kuder reunion went great! We got up there Tuesday afternoon and took it easy until Thursday when most others arrived. We had a great bonfire gathering at my parents place that night! It was a great way to get things started (Although Nick Watson was a little slow the next morning...)

Friday I decided to do the golfing. Bad idea. Easily the worst round of golf I've played maybe ever. I had a few so-so holes, then it all fell apart. Let's just say I had to take a 10 on 3 holes...and we only played 9. I only had 2 bloody mary's the whole time, so I can't blame it on that. Maybe I just wasn't that motivated to play? Or maybe I should just admit that I suck at golf. If I remember correctly, Tom Kuder won the golf outing.

Tenielle and Ava went miniature golfing. I'm waiting to get a picture of it, as Tenielle carried Ava around on her back all morning in a fancy carrier thing that we had never used before. Sounds like it worked great! I believe Hunter won the Miniature Golfing contest.

Other friday morning events included birding/hiking, which had a decent size group attending. SOunds like the birding was slow, but I think they all had a good time. Mike took a few of the Cali folks fishing! Judging from the pictures and stories, they didn't have a TON of luck. But they didn't get skunked. Jesse failed to land a Bass on Ox somehow...Set the hook! Just kidding Jesse :) He did manage to catch a few tiny little northerns...which Ox is full of.

Friday for lunch we had an awesome Walley fish fry! Everything was great! We spend the rest of the afternoon hanging out on Ox with the JetSki and boats...was a good time and the weather turned out to be pretty nice. Friday's dinner was at the campground...grilled salmon and bbq ribs...excellent again! Hung out at the bonfire at Manhattan Beach for a bit that night.

Saturday was our day on the chain. We had a couple of really nice 25' pontoon's to tool us around, and marty brought his boat along for those who wanted to kneeboard, wakeboard, etc. Ate lunch on an island in Island Lake...it was a great spot. (Might have been private but oh well). Had the big dinner at Manhattan Beach that night which was awesome. Spent the night at the Ox Tavern with a bunch of the cousins. Always a good time.

Sunday brunch was the end of it! Food was great, but we were all concerned about Grandpa who had to go to the hospital Saturday night. He's back in town at North Memorial today, and hopefully they can get feeling better. Keep him in your prayers!

Check out the Kuder Reunion Website for pictures!

Spike in activity¿

What's the deal! 15 comments! that's a record so far! Unfortunately that doesn't mean i have 15 readers :( But good stuff none the less. I will keep up the movie quote at the end of each one...no beer prize...as that will get rediculous...but how bout bragging rights and maybe some 'props' from time to time.

New pictures are up on the site! Check em out.

We hit the cabin this weekend...all done on the inside (pretty much anyway) and looking great! It was quite warm, but felt great on the water. Ava did quite a bit of swimming and tried out her new life jacket, which she seemed to not mind as much as the old one...but she still wasn't a big fan of it.

I have a pounding headache today so this will be short. We have a busy week coming up and some stupid wedding to go to this weekend. Reunion is just over a week away!

I'll write more again this week at least once i hope...if not everyday (not likely).

So last weeks quote was fairly easy...and of course google makes it basically impossible to make it difficult...but i'll try. This week we'll keep it simple and easy...and i'm guessing at least one of you will get it without having to cheat...so good luck..here goes:

"I must've drunk 17 Dr. Peppers"

Piece owt.

Bumblebee Tuna

It's been over a week...so sue me. Last weekend we hit the Como Zoo...the FREE zoo! They still have some cool animals there and quite a few things that the MN zoo doesn't have, so it was a good time. Most of the animals were sleeping so Ava did mostly people watching. It's not near as big as the MN zoo, so we weren't there for all that long. My personal favorite....some little mustached monkey thing...that only showed up for a second and then hid. But it was cool for that quick moment.

Joe finally got me some of his wedding pictures from their photographer, so I have the pre-ceremony pictures up on his website...which if you can get to by clicking HERE.

I should be updating some pictures of Ava on our site after this weekend. We are heading to the cabin again, and it's sposed to be HOT...so i'm sure we'll have some new pics of Ava in one of her cute little swimsuits.

How bout those Twins, eh? I gotta say that even though Nathan does his job most of the time, he sure makes me nervous....some questionable 2 strike pitches from time to time. But in honor of the Twins current hot streak...and in the fasion of Bill Swerski's Super Fans...I'd like to say the following:

Daaaaaaaaaaaa Twins, Da Twins, Da Twins, Da Twins, Da Twins, Da Twins, Da Twins, Da Twins, Da Twins, Da Twins, Da Twins, Da Twins, Da Twins, Da Twins.
Daaaaaaaaaaaa Twins, Da Twins, Da Twins, Da Twins, Da Twins, Da Twins, Da Twins, Da Twins, Da Twins, Da Twins, Da Twins, Da Twins, Da Twins, Da Twins.

Oh yeah...and shame on all of you for not beating justin to the punch last week. I guess i'll buy him a beer at his wedding or something. Game is still on so somebody better win this week.

P.S. Bonus beer to the first person to respond with what this entry's title is from.

The Zoo

So we got up early Saturday morning and hit the Minnesota Zoo! We checked out all of the outdoor exhibit things first before it got too hot, then saw the inside stuff. A lot of the animals were pretty boring for Ava...just laying there or sleeping. However a few of them were plenty active and she got pretty exciting watching them. Her favorite were the Bison, Prarie Dogs, the Monkeys with the red butts, and the fish in the coral reef fishtank.

We also saw the 3D show at the Imax called 'Deep Sea'. Really cool. Ava slept through the first half but woke up and stared through the 2nd half. All in all, it was a great time!

We also saw the new Pirates of the Carribean movie. Good stuff! Plenty entertaining.

I'm not too talkative today apprently since i'm speaking in generalities. Oh well. I'm golfing in the Lyon's Pub scramble today so my work day is done shortly. Have fun at work suckers!

And the tallies are:

T = 2 beers
Jim = 2 beers
Justin = WNBA Fan.

Bye Bye Qwest!!!!

So for quite some time I've been looking into getting rid of Qwest as our home phone provider and goin hi-tech with VoIP. Well, after a rather stressful grouping of phone calls with PITA Qwest reps over a recent improper charge on my phone bill, I decided to make the move.

As of today, our home phone will be utilizing VoIP!! (Voice over IP for those of you who live under a rock). Our home phone number remains the same (although it may take a day or two for it to switch over...right now we have a temp number until the switch is complete...just call our cells if you need us for now).

So I ran out...bought a Vonage phone adapter...and a few minutes later, I was up and running! One reason i didn't do this earlier was that I read that it wouldn't work with our home security system...Well that may have been true a couple years ago (maybe), it is no longer true at all. I found enough info online to ensure me that I wouldn't have a problem, and after running my system diags, everything is connected up perfectly.

One of my favorite features is that it will email me a .wav file of any voicemails we get. So no matter where i'm at, i can check mail on my treo and get my messages that way without using any cell minutes or making any phone calls...pretty slick.

Plenty more features that it comes with..and for only 14.99/month, it beats the 40/month i was paying for Qwest for an inferior package. So my suggestion...FOLLOW ME! I'm the coolest! (Although I'm following plenty of other people...Joe...Shane...but that's just part of what makes me so cool).

And congrats to jim on winning his first beer....the count stands:
1st Place - Tenielle (2 beers)
2nd Place - Jim (1 beer)

Not much new....

Not a whole lot to write about, but to make my blog appear active I'm going to write something anyway. Had a busy weekend...bachelor party and all. My team won the golf tourney...Darrell was on my team...first time EVER playing golf...and did really well! He might be a natural...if he gets out routinely, his game will really pick up quick.

Ava is expanding her diet still...adding peas and pears to the mix. She's fighting off a little cold (that she either game me or maybe i gave mine to her...who knows).

It's our 6 year wedding anniversary this Saturday! We're going to have a family weekend of just eating good and hanging out. Sounds like it's gonna be dang hot, so our Zoo plans are probably postponed...but we'll find something to do...preferably indoors...or involving water.

Got any good topics to discuss? Throw em in a comment and i'll start an entry on it if I find it worthwhile....

Game is still on...Tenielle is 2 for 2...nobody else has gotten close. Justin is usually shortly behind T in her comments.

Big girls roll over and have teeth too!

So Ava has decided to just start throwing new things out there daily. Over the 4th of July weekend she started rolling over both from front to back and from back to front! She literally rolled herself accross our office!

She also has a tooth in her mouth!!! It's still just poking through, but it's there! She was a little cranky during the day because of it, but she handled it pretty well. It's on the bottom, and the other one is just under the surface so i'm guessing that one will cut through any day as well.

As for the 4th, we had a great time! Ava did a lot of swimming in the lake, which she loved! She had a little tube thing that she sits in so her feet hang in the water and she kicked like crazy trying to swim around. It was pretty cool! She also did a lot of just sitting and splashing on the beach in less than a foot of water too. We didn't get a bike ride in, but between Mike, Karen and me, we fed the family with some tasty sunfish one night. Mike and I hit the bass one morning and had a pretty decent outing as well.

Only had one night at the bar with our pal Big Buck Hunter 2006. I did poorly. It had been a while so i was a little rusty. However, Tenielle came out guns a blazin and really made me look bad. Mike and Karen still won by a longshot.

Justine's bachelor party is coming up this weekend! Although i'll probably be buying him plenty of beers/cocktails, the offer still stands that any person who responds before JB get's a free beer on me next time we're out! Tenielle won last week! Congrats! (Yippie...basically buying herself a beer). Look for some updated pics on the website after the weekend!

Big girls sit up by themselves...

Yup, Ava is now easily sitting up on her own! She can't get to that position by herself yet, but once she's there she can sit forever! The occasional flop onto her back here and there, but she's got it pretty much mastered. We are so proud! :)

She's also expanded her diet to include Carrots, Green Beans, Sweet Potatoes...as well as a little banana and apple sauce! Tasty.

We had a good weekend up north last weekend. Weather was great! The guys got a little fishing in, Ava took a pontoon ride with G&G Shallman, and we went on another bike ride! She had a blast but it really wore her out. Another 6 days of it coming up this weekend for the 4th!

Speaking of fishing, Justin caught his first fish ever! He didn't know what kind it was..he thought it looked like a crappie. None-the-less, we were very happy for him, and as you can see, he was pretty proud of himself. It was actually pretty cool...he caught 2 fish at once. He first caught a small bluegill, and while reeling it in the northern ate it! he got it in and the bluegill's tail was still sticking out of the northerns throat. Pretty cool stuff. Way to go Justin...fish(s) on!

Cristin passed her boards! Nice work! Finally done with school and makin the big bucks. Too bad Justin will spend it all on ugly haircuts.

Going forward, there is a standing offer of a 'free beer' for anyone who manages to comment on a new blog entry BEFORE Justin does. And i'm guessing Justin will have plenty to comment on for this one. Good luck!