Tony's Birthday Weekend!

We celebrated Tony's birthday this past weekend in Door County at Cote Cottage. Our time was filled with windy, freezing weather, football, beautiful scenery, and lots of fun at Mr. Helsinki's...Tony and his Dad, Glen Navis, played music and I got to be the bartender! It was a fun-filled weekend for us all...HAPPY BIRTHDAY TONY!!!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY KALI!

October 6th was Kali's 13th birthday! We had a great time visiting with friends - and of course there was cake :) Cole even had a first - he learned how to lick beaters...YUMMMM!

Birthday Girl, KaliChristy, Rolland, & Kali

Michaela, Andy, Melissa, Rhonda, & Ken

Michaela & KaliCole learning another life lesson - lick the beaters!

Firetruck!

Cole found his firetruck tent all folded up one day... He couldn't stop giggling once he figured out how to look out the windows!

WISCONSIN OR BUST!

Many of you already know, but I have to mention in a post, FINALLY, that we have officially moved back to Wisconsin!! We could not have been blessed more with how everything has turned out. I will post more exciting moving pictures, but wanted to FINALLY add one of our new house....

It is complete with laundry shoots, secret stairways and attics, and yes, a not-so-creepy basement thanks to Tony fixing it up a little.

Fall Fun...

Well, I know you all are wondering about what fun Cole is having now that we are back in Wisconsin, so here are a couple of pictures for you....

My Aunt & Uncle, Gail & Chuck Dallman, invited us all on a Fall Festival Day consisting of a hayride, pumpkin carving, and a pot luck dinner. Cole really enjoyed sitting on each and every pumpkin he could find and eating all the great homemade food!

Kali (my niece), Cole, my sister, Christy, and I on the pumpkin-getting hayride....Cole LOVED the tractor and has since been saying the word!

We have all been enjoying the leaves and the giant leaf piles we can make. Here are some pictures of Cole finding out what leaves really are and how much fun you can have with them...

Yes, as you can see by the bare chest, we've had some really nice days this fall...but believe me, it's cold now...brrrrrrr.

Cole doesn't so much like laying in the leaves yet,
but we were trying to show him how much fun it was!

But he LOVES throwing them up in the air!

More stories to come as I realize I have been really lazy about posting all of our fun WI adventures.

STAY TUNED!

A Man's Garage...

It is complete...the garage shelving that is, not unpacking. Tony and his Dad, Glen, finished the job last night. La Verne and I had fun watching the men work. I believe the guys really enjoyed it too! Notice all the dust flying in the air...

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It's RODEO TIME!

Last weekend, I took the fam and went back to my roots...RODEO ROOTS that is. My hometown of 1,200 people hosts "The Greatest Midwestern Rodeo" each year, complete with a parade and lots of beer (of course). Of course Cole LOVES animals, so we HAD to go...




My sister, Christy and her husband, Rolland

Look who got all the candy...(HINT) It wasn't Cole!


Tony's new hat - he's a cowboy now.


Tractors are always fun to see.



This was Cole's face the entire time....amazed and captivated by it all - we all were!